# Clarence Frederick Underwood artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:12:28.077Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Illustration, Book illustration, Works on paper and prints

## About Clarence Frederick Underwood

Clarence Frederick Underwood (1871–1929) was an American painter and illustrator whose name also appears in authority records as Clarence F. Underwood and C. Frederick Underwood. Bibliographic records document his work as an illustrator of Booth Tarkington’s The Flirt and as a contributing illustrator of Stewart Edward White’s The Riverman, published in 1908. Surviving public-domain examples also connect him with narrative and social imagery, including couples at the opera and dancing. These records place illustration at the center of his documented practice, alongside his identification as a painter. Collectors may encounter Underwood through paintings, original illustration art, works on paper, prints, or images removed from illustrated publications. Because his pictures circulated through printed books and other reproducible formats, identifying the object type is especially important: an original drawing or painting is materially different from a period printed plate or a later reproduction. No well-supported artistic movement is assigned in the available institutional source pack.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings, original illustrations, works on paper, prints, and book-related images attributed to Underwood. Documented examples include illustrations for fiction and compositions showing couples in social settings. Appraisal research should distinguish original artwork from printed plates, detached book pages, later editions, and reproductions, while checking signatures, inscriptions, publication context, condition, and attribution.

## Market and appraisal context

Underwood’s public auction record should be interpreted through close comparisons rather than a single headline result. Relevant factors include whether an object is an original painting or drawing, a period print, an illustrated book component, or a later reproduction. Dimensions, date, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and confidence in the attribution should all be checked. Subject matter and the availability of genuinely comparable lots may also affect how a work is assessed. Appraisily’s collected market page indicates a modest matched-record set but reports inconsistent totals, so record counts require reconciliation. Public auction results can provide useful reference points, while private transactions, incomplete feeds, buyer-premium conventions, and later attribution changes may remain outside the available data.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Gaps, attribution changes, and inconsistent record totals are retained as limitations rather than resolved by assumption.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29803271
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500033293
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/55805560/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92041087
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000031542233
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/167886142
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/98227
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/clarence-frederick-underwood/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Underwood_The_Only_Two_at_the_Opera_1912.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Last_Waltz_-_Clarence_F._Underwood_-_BW.tif