# Charles Landseer artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-landseer/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:54:48.340Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Watercolor

## Portrait

![Charles Landseer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/-Charles_Landseer-_MET_DP-386-175.jpg/1280px--Charles_Landseer-_MET_DP-386-175.jpg)
John & Charles Watkins · CC0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-Charles_Landseer-_MET_DP-386-175.jpg

## About Charles Landseer

Charles Landseer (1799–1879) was an English painter associated particularly with history painting. Museum and authority profiles agree on his identity and death year, although one library authority notes that his birth may have occurred in 1799 or 1800. His documented practice includes paintings as well as drawings and watercolors. A bibliographic record cited by IdRef identifies a body of drawings and watercolors connected with Portugal and Brazil in 1825–1826, adding a travel-related works-on-paper context to his better-known historical subjects. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on narrative paintings, studies, drawings, or watercolors rather than on a single uniform type of object. Reliable identification should distinguish Charles Landseer from other members of the Landseer name and should connect an object to the appropriate medium, subject, and period before auction comparisons are selected.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Charles Landseer include paintings, especially compositions with historical subjects, as well as drawings and watercolors. Authority-linked bibliography also documents drawings and watercolors relating to Portugal and Brazil from 1825–1826. The collected material does not establish how frequently each type appears at auction.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction records are available for Charles Landseer, but the collected source excerpts do not provide a category-by-category or lot-level market analysis. An appraisal should begin by separating paintings from drawings and watercolors and by comparing works with similar subject matter. Historical compositions should be assessed against relevant historical-subject records, while works on paper connected with Portugal or Brazil require comparables appropriate to their medium and context. Sale date, realized price, and the closeness of each comparable are important parts of the evidence. These records provide context rather than an automatic valuation: an artist-name match does not by itself resolve attribution or establish the value of a particular object.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5080054
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/charles-landseer-322
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/163254745
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Landseer
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Landseer
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Landseer
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-landseer/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-Charles_Landseer-_MET_DP-386-175.jpg