# Charles James Adams artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:10:21.175Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Death date: 1931-11-08
- Nationality: English, British
- Common media: Oil painting, Watercolour, Lithography

## About Charles James Adams

Charles James Adams (1859–1931) was an English painter best known for landscape subjects. Authority records identify him as a British painter, while the available biography places his birth in Gravesend, Kent. He studied at Leicester School of Art under Wilmot Pilsbury and received the Society of Arts’ Mulready Gold Medal for life drawing. Adams worked mainly in oil but also produced watercolours and lithographs. His subjects ranged from landscapes with animals to genre and historical scenes, placing his output within the broad context of late Victorian and early twentieth-century British landscape art. He lived in several parts of England before settling in Farnham, Surrey, where he remained until his death in 1931. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name on rural landscapes and related works on paper. Because detailed catalogue scholarship is absent from the current source pack, an individual work should be assessed on its own documented characteristics rather than on the artist’s name alone.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Adams’s name are chiefly landscape pictures, often in oil, with watercolours also forming an important part of his documented practice. The available biography additionally records lithographs and subjects involving animals, genre scenes, and historical themes. The source pack does not establish named series, edition sizes, or a catalogue raisonné.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s input identifies 176 auction records associated with Charles James Adams, but this source pack does not expose the underlying lot details or realized prices. Relevant comparisons should therefore separate oils, watercolours, and lithographs, then match subject matter as closely as possible, particularly landscape, animal, genre, or historical scenes. Sale date and the quality of each comparable record also matter when interpreting public results. Condition, dimensions, provenance, signature, and attribution may be important in an appraisal, but the collected sources do not provide artist-specific evidence showing how those factors have affected Adams’s prices. No price trend, scarcity conclusion, or forecast can be supported from this pack alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When records are available, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots can inform appraisal research; the evidence available for a specific work should still be reviewed individually.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19368841
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500094122
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96371558/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_James_Adams
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-james-adams/