# Charles Harmony Harrison artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:58:46.737Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Watercolour

## About Charles Harmony Harrison

Charles Harmony Harrison (1842–1902) was a British painter whose surviving public-collection record is closely associated with Norfolk and Great Yarmouth. Authority files at Wikidata, Getty ULAN, and VIAF align his name, life years, nationality, and profession, while Art UK lists works held by Great Yarmouth Museums, the Time and Tide Museum, and Norfolk Museums. Recorded subjects include Yarmouth towers, river traffic, a paddle steamer, boats, a church-porch figure, and a study of shells. These titles point to a practice attentive to local landscape, waterside activity, architecture, and everyday observation. Public auction-image metadata also identifies signed watercolours of river and Broad scenes, including a work dated 1890. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Harrison through British landscape and waterside pictures, especially works connected with East Anglian scenery. The collected sources do not securely assign him to a named movement or document detailed training and exhibition history, so those areas should remain open rather than inferred.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter Harrison's paintings and works on paper, particularly signed watercolours depicting river landscapes, boats, lakes, Norfolk Broads scenery, and Great Yarmouth landmarks. Public collections also record a paddle-steamer scene, an architectural study, a church-porch figure, and a study of shells. Medium, support, signature, date, condition, and attribution should be verified for each object.

## Market and appraisal context

Charles Harmony Harrison's auction results should be compared with works that share the same medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and level of attribution. Signed watercolours and paintings of rivers, boats, Broad scenes, and Great Yarmouth subjects appear in the collected evidence, but a familiar subject alone does not establish authorship or value. Condition issues such as fading, foxing, staining, restoration, or surface damage may materially affect comparability. Provenance, inscriptions, exhibition history, catalogue references, and a secure attribution can also distinguish one result from another. Public realized prices are useful reference points, but reporting conventions may differ and private transactions or later attribution changes may be absent. An appraisal should therefore use closely matched lots rather than a single artist-wide median or price range.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20064428
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500008948
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95735716/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/36149
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/harrison-charles-harmony-18421902
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-harmony-harrison/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Harmony_Harrison_-_40f4591926.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Harmony_Harrison_-_d1c4218890.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Harmony_Harrison_-_407487597b.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Harmony_Harrison_-_c3e4c19b74.jpg