# David (1796) Roberts artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-1796-roberts/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T08:50:03.611Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Scottish
- Common media: Paintings, Works on paper and prints, Sculpture and mixed media, Decorative art and editions

## Portrait

![David (1796) Roberts](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/David_Roberts_%281844%29.jpg/1280px-David_Roberts_%281844%29.jpg)
Hill & Adamson · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Roberts_(1844).jpg

## About David (1796) Roberts

David (1796) Roberts is the auction-directory label used for records that appear intended to refer to David Roberts, identified in the collected portrait metadata as a Scottish painter who lived from 1796 to 1864. The current source pack does not contain a museum biography, library authority record, or canonical entity identifier, so that identification remains provisional. Collectors may encounter the name on paintings, works on paper, and prints, the clearest categories named by the available Appraisily market page. The index also carries broader category labels, but these may represent mixed or loosely matched auction records rather than a documented body of work. A signature or name match alone is therefore insufficient to establish authorship. Object-level review should compare medium, subject, date, inscriptions, provenance, and attribution wording before associating a lot with the Scottish artist.

## Common works and media

The current market page most clearly identifies fine art and paintings, together with works on paper and prints. It also assigns some records to sculpture and mixed media or decorative art and editions, but the source pack does not establish that these broader categories are characteristic works by the intended artist. They should be treated as index buckets requiring object-level confirmation, not as a definitive catalogue of David Roberts's production.

## Market and appraisal context

The available Appraisily index reports 58 matched records, including 31 with prices, across 2000–2026. It shows an observed range of $2 to $76,200 and a median near $450. These figures describe the matched dataset rather than predict the value of another object, and the page notes that fees may be reported inconsistently. Appraisal comparisons should align medium, size, date, condition, restoration, inscriptions, provenance, catalogue references, and attribution confidence. Subject matter, rarity, and recent comparable public sales may also matter. Because the identity evidence is thin and the feed may contain name collisions or broad category assignments, every proposed comparable should be checked at lot level before it informs value.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity matching, attribution, condition, and fee treatment should be verified before market records are used in an appraisal.

## Sources

- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-1796-roberts/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Roberts_(1844).jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_David_Roberts,_Esq._R.A_(4671884).jpg