# Daniel O'Neill artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/daniel-o-neill/
Profile generated: 2026-08-19T16:04:00Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Irish
- Movements: Romanticism
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints, Sculpture and mixed media, Decorative art and editions

## About Daniel O'Neill

Daniel O'Neill (1920–1974) was an Irish painter whose identity is consistently recorded by Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and Art UK. Public biographical summaries describe him as a Belfast-born Romantic painter who developed an expressionistic approach. His imagery is associated with emotionally charged concerns such as love, life, death, memory, and human vulnerability. The collected institutional records are stronger on identity and lifespan than on detailed biography, so these stylistic descriptions are best treated as useful context rather than a complete scholarly classification. Collectors principally encounter O'Neill through paintings, while auction data also groups attributed objects under works on paper and prints. Less certain category signals include mixed media, sculpture, decorative art, and editions, each of which requires verification against the individual object. His substantial public auction footprint makes accurate entity matching important: medium, dimensions, signature, date, provenance, condition, and attribution should be checked rather than inferred from the artist's name alone.

## Common works and media

Paintings are the best-supported work type associated with Daniel O'Neill. Appraisily's matched auction data also places attributed objects in works-on-paper and print categories. Some records are classified under sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, or editions, but the collected biographical sources do not establish those categories as central to his practice. For any object offered under his name, confirm the precise medium, support, dimensions, signature or inscriptions, date, condition, provenance, and attribution before selecting comparable sales.

## Market and appraisal context

Daniel O'Neill has a substantial body of matched public auction records, but those results should be compared at the level of the individual work. Medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, signature, inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and attribution confidence can all affect relevance to an appraisal. Edition information matters for prints or other multiples. Comparable sales are most useful when the objects share important physical and historical characteristics, and reported prices should be normalized for currency, sale date, fees, and buyer's-premium conventions where possible. Public results do not capture every private transaction, and incomplete feeds or later attribution changes may alter the apparent market picture. No record-set median or observed price range should be treated as a prediction for a specific object.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity records with matched public auction data. When available, the evidence includes auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, object descriptions, images, and comparable lots. Private sales, incomplete feeds, reporting differences, and later attribution changes may not be represented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5218312
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96663584/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500160348
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/oneill-daniel-19201974
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/daniel-o-neill/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O'Neill_(painter)
- Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O'Neill_(pintor)