# David Andersen artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-andersen/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:55:10.628Z
Quality: low confidence, insufficient sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Silverwork and decorative metalwork, provisionally associated with a David Andersen workshop

## Portrait

![David Andersen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/David_Andersen%2C_gullsmed.jpg)
Leifen23 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Andersen,_gullsmed.jpg

## About David Andersen

David Andersen is the name attached to a substantial group of matched public auction records, but the available source pack does not yet establish a secure biographical identity for the artist or maker represented by those lots. Collected Wikimedia material points provisionally to a Norwegian goldsmith and a workshop associated with silver objects. That connection requires confirmation from a museum, design archive, company history, library authority, or other institution-grade source before birth years, nationality, occupation, or workshop history should be published as settled facts. The retrieved Wikidata and Wikipedia profiles concern a Norwegian footballer and are therefore unsuitable as identity links for this artist page. Collectors should presently treat “David Andersen” as an unresolved auction-name entity and examine each object’s marks, medium, attribution wording, provenance, and catalogue description before assuming that separate lots share the same maker.

## Common works and media

The collected material provides provisional evidence for silverwork and decorative metal objects associated with a David Andersen workshop, including a photographed silver serving object. The current Appraisily record group also spans fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, decorative art, and editions. This breadth may reflect name matching rather than one coherent body of work. Each object should therefore be classified from its own catalogue description, materials, marks, inscriptions, attribution wording, and photographs before it is compared with other David Andersen records.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily has matched public auction records under the name David Andersen across several broad categories, but the unresolved identity makes close lot-level comparison especially important. A useful appraisal should compare objects with similar medium, dimensions, date, condition, maker’s marks or signatures, edition information, and attribution language. Provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, restoration, and surface quality may also affect how a lot compares with recorded sales. Reported realized prices can differ in their treatment of buyer’s premiums and fees. Because records may combine multiple makers or entities with the same name, aggregate statistics should not be treated as a prediction of value until the relevant authorship or workshop connection is established.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For David Andersen, identity evidence remains provisional and should be reconciled before stronger biographical or market conclusions are published.

## Sources

- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-andersen/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3703084
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Andersen_(footballer)
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Andersen,_gullsmed.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Andersen_s%C3%B8lv_konfektsk%C3%A5l_1876.jpg