# Charles Harold Davis artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:18:43.276Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1856-01-07
- Death date: 1933-08-05
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Charles Harold Davis](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Charles_H._Davis_photo_-_crop.jpg/1280px-Charles_H._Davis_photo_-_crop.jpg)
Smithsonian Institution from United States · No restrictions
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_H._Davis_photo_-_crop.jpg

## About Charles Harold Davis

Charles Harold Davis (January 7, 1856–August 5, 1933) was an American landscape painter. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, the BnF, and IdRef consistently identify the same artist and lifespan, while VIAF also consolidates catalog headings such as “Charles H. Davis” and “Davis, Charles Harold.” The collected evidence is strongest on identity and artistic field: landscapes are the clearest supported subject, and painting is the clearest supported medium. The source pack does not establish a named movement, detailed training history, exhibition chronology, or documented series, so those points should not be inferred. Collectors are most likely to encounter Davis through landscape paintings and auction records indexed under his full name or abbreviated form. Careful entity matching matters because “Charles Davis” is broad; dates, middle name, authority identifiers, and work type provide the most reliable anchors for connecting records to this artist.

## Common works and media

Landscape paintings are the only common work type clearly supported by the collected identity sources. The pack does not establish recurring named series, specific landscape regions, favored supports, print editions, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or posters. An appraisal page should therefore avoid assigning those categories without object-level evidence. When cataloging a possible Davis work, record its precise medium, support, dimensions, subject, signature or inscriptions, condition, and any documented history before comparing it with auction records.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by confirming that a work and its records refer to Charles Harold Davis, the American landscape painter who lived from 1856 to 1933. Full name, life dates, subject, and linked authority identifiers can reduce confusion with similarly named artists. The collected evidence supports landscape paintings as the principal auction category, but it does not provide a lot-level breakdown by size, date, condition, provenance, signature, or precise medium. Those object-specific characteristics should therefore be documented before selecting comparables. Public auction results are most useful when the compared works have similar physical characteristics, attribution language, condition, and sale context; the available source pack does not support a price forecast or general market trend.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Claims are limited to the evidence collected for the artist and should be refined with object-level documentation.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5078781
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95809529/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500020846
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/226400921
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb162064675
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harold_Davis
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harold_Davis
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-harold-davis/