# Charles Thomas Bale artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:38:37.244Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Oil on canvas (documented example)

## About Charles Thomas Bale

Charles Thomas Bale (1849–1925) was a British painter associated in the available public records with still-life painting. Documented examples show carefully arranged fruit, ceramic or glass vessels, and dead game, including oil-on-canvas compositions. These subjects place his name in the tradition of British still-life and game painting, although the collected sources do not establish a formal movement, school, training history, or detailed exhibition record. Collectors may encounter Bale through signed still lifes and through works carrying more cautious attribution language. That distinction matters: a museum-linked record in the source pack describes one composition only as “style of” Bale, while another documented example records a Bale signature or monogram. Identity research should therefore separate firmly attributed works from stylistic associations. The available authority records consistently identify him as a British painter who lived from 1849 to 1925, but fuller biographical documentation remains limited in this source set.

## Common works and media

The documented works in this source set are still-life paintings. Recurring subjects include baskets or arrangements of fruit, glazed vessels, and dead game such as a partridge. At least one example is identified as oil on canvas. Attribution can vary, and collectors may encounter works catalogued as by Charles Thomas Bale alongside compositions described only as being in his style.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, the artist attribution should be assessed before comparison with public sales. Signature or monogram details, medium and support, dimensions, subject matter, date, condition, and provenance may all help distinguish a securely attributed Bale still life from a work merely catalogued in his style. Documented examples in the collected material include oil-on-canvas arrangements of fruit, vessels, and dead game. Comparable auction evidence should match these characteristics as closely as possible and should distinguish asking prices from realized prices. This source pack does not include individual sale results or condition reports, so it cannot support a price forecast or market-trend claim.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When available, sale dates, realized prices, attribution details, and closely comparable lots are considered separately from biographical evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21463707
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95817737/
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/bale-charles-thomas-18491925
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-thomas-bale/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Thomas_Bale_-_Still_life.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Thomas_Bale_(1849-1925)_-_Still_Life_with_Dead_Game_-_A1.716_-_Hepworth_Wakefield.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Thomas_Bale_(1849-1925)_(style_of)_-_Still_Life_-_O.213_-_Bowes_Museum.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Thomas_Bale_Still_life_with_dead_game_and_fruit.jpg