# Charles Livingston Bull artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:02:00.386Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Death date: 1932-03-22
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Illustration

## Portrait

![Charles Livingston Bull](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Charles_Livingston_Bull_-_NARA_-_20807312_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Charles_Livingston_Bull_-_NARA_-_20807312_%28cropped%29.jpg)
William Shewell Ellis · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Livingston_Bull_-_NARA_-_20807312_(cropped).jpg

## About Charles Livingston Bull

Charles Livingston Bull (1874–1932) was an American illustrator and artist best known for wildlife imagery. Authority records from Wikidata and VIAF align his name, nationality, profession, and lifespan, while Getty ULAN supplies a stable artist identifier. A biographical summary reports that he studied taxidermy in Rochester, New York, a background relevant to his close observation of animals. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Bull in the context of American illustration and wildlife art rather than a named artistic movement. His public identity also appears under catalog variants such as C. L. Bull, Ch. Livingston Bull, and Charles Livingstone Bull. These variants can matter when matching signatures, publication credits, collection records, or auction listings. Appraisily's collected input associates the artist with a substantial body of auction records, but the supplied source pack does not identify individual titles, commissions, publications, or series. Those details should be verified object by object.

## Common works and media

Bull is documented as an illustrator known for wildlife imagery. The current source pack therefore supports wildlife and animal illustration as the clearest work context. It does not establish which physical media, publication commissions, print processes, editions, or named series most often appear at auction. Treat any painting, drawing, print, book illustration, or reproduction classification as object-specific until the work itself and its catalog history have been examined.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal work should begin with identity: does the object and its signature align with Bull's documented role as an American wildlife illustrator and with recognized authority-name variants? Wildlife subject matter may support an identification, but it does not prove authorship. The Appraisily input associates Bull with 210 auction records; however, the collected source pack provides neither lot descriptions nor realized prices. That count is therefore a discovery signal, not evidence of a price level or trend. Any valuation should be based on verified details from the specific object and genuinely comparable public sale records reviewed in their original catalog context. This profile does not support claims about scarcity, rising demand, preferred physical media, edition premiums, or typical prices.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source gaps and unsupported market conclusions are disclosed rather than filled by assumption.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5080287
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/15579517/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500010445
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Livingston_Bull
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-livingston-bull/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Livingston_Bull_-_NARA_-_20807312_(cropped).jpg