# Colin Hunter artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:16:32.028Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Scottish
- Common media: Painting, Etching

## Portrait

![Colin Hunter](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Colin_Hunter_ARA%2C_1884.jpeg)
Unsigned · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colin_Hunter_ARA,_1884.jpeg

## About Colin Hunter

Colin Hunter (1841–1904) was a Scottish painter and etcher working during the Victorian era. He is chiefly associated with marine imagery: seascapes, fishing activity, coastal labor, and changing weather on the water. Publicly catalogued paintings show that this focus ranged from fishing around Skye and kelp gathering to views of the Clyde, dawn at sea, and the force of the Niagara Rapids. Hunter also treated occasional landscape, figure, and portrait subjects, but maritime scenes form the clearest thread through his known work. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings of boats, fishermen, shorelines, and open water, as well as on etchings. Art UK records works attributed to Hunter in British public collections, including holdings associated with Glasgow Museums and the Burton Art Gallery and Museum. Those institutional records, together with international authority identifiers, help distinguish the Victorian Scottish artist from other people who share his name.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Colin Hunter most commonly include paintings of the sea, fishing boats, fishermen, coastal labor, shorelines, and Scottish waters such as the Clyde and the area around Skye. Public-collection records also document river and landscape subjects, kelp gatherers, and an occasional portrait or figure scene. Etchings may also appear, although the collected institutional evidence for his graphic work is less detailed than the evidence for paintings.

## Market and appraisal context

A Colin Hunter appraisal should begin by identifying the object’s medium and subject, then comparing it with records for closely related works. Marine paintings, fishing scenes, Scottish coastal views, other landscapes, and etchings should not be treated as interchangeable categories. The source pack establishes these recurring work types but does not provide lot-level prices or auction-house analysis. A defensible valuation would also examine the signature and attribution, dimensions, date, condition, provenance, and the quality and relevance of available comparable sales. Public auction results are most useful when the compared works share the same medium, broadly similar scale, and closely related subject matter; the number of database records alone does not establish value or authenticity.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/hunter-colin-18411904
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18813182
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Hunter
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Hunter
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colin_Hunter_ARA,_1884.jpeg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/colin-hunter/