# Cornelius Pearson artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/cornelius-pearson/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:31:59.456Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Watercolor, Printmaking and engraving

## About Cornelius Pearson

Cornelius Pearson was a nineteenth-century British painter, printmaker, and engraver, recorded by Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, and RKD. The authority evidence places his life at approximately 1807–1891, although one linked record gives 1805 as the birth year, so the precise date remains unsettled. Documented works in the collected public image records include watercolor landscapes dated from the 1840s through the 1860s. Their subjects include Lake District scenery and a view near Barmouth in Wales, indicating the importance of British landscape imagery within the surviving record. Collectors may encounter Pearson through watercolors and other works on paper, as well as prints or engravings consistent with his authority-record occupations. Because several artists can share a surname and landscape subjects are widely represented in nineteenth-century British art, a signature should be assessed alongside medium, inscriptions, date, provenance, and visual comparison with securely identified works.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence documents watercolor landscapes, including Lake District scenery and a view near Barmouth. Authority records also identify Pearson as a printmaker and engraver, so works on paper and prints may appear alongside paintings in auction and appraisal contexts. Each work should be classified by its actual medium rather than by subject or signature alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s matched public-auction dataset for Cornelius Pearson reports 203 records, including 139 priced records, across sales dated from 1993 to 2026. These figures describe the available data snapshot rather than every transaction or a guaranteed market level. For appraisal, a watercolor should be compared with works of similar dimensions, subject, date, condition, and attribution status; prints require attention to technique, impression quality, margins, and any edition information. Signature and inscriptions, documented provenance, restoration, exhibition or catalogue references, and recent comparable public sales can all affect interpretation. Private sales, incomplete feeds, buyer-premium conventions, and later attribution changes may not be fully reflected in public results.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public records may omit private transactions and should be evaluated with condition, provenance, medium, and attribution evidence.

## Sources

- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500004947
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95711042/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43135093
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/62265
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/cornelius-pearson/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pearson_C._-_Watercolor_-_Landscape_in_the_Lakes_district_-_23x33cm.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pearson_C._-_Watercolor_-_Landscape_-_31x49.5cm.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pearson_C._-_Watercolor_-_Landscape_in_the_Lake_district_-_16x27.3cm.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cornelius_Pearson_-_Scene_on_the_Mawddlach,_near_Barmouth_-_B1975.4.1679_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg