# David Yarrow artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-yarrow/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:25:57.936Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1966-02-08
- Nationality: British
- Common media: Fine-art photography, Photographic prints and editions

## About David Yarrow

David Yarrow (born 1966) is a British photographer, financier, and author known for contemporary fine-art photography. His documented subjects range from wildlife and landscapes to sports figures, models, Indigenous communities, and staged narrative scenes inspired by the American West. The available source pack does not connect his practice to a specific historical art movement, so it is more accurately described through its photographic medium, subject matter, and constructed imagery. Collectors commonly encounter his work as photographic prints and editions, where the image title, dimensions, process, print date, edition notation, signature, and provenance help distinguish one object from another. His published books and records in international library-authority systems give him a well-defined public identity across catalogues and knowledge graphs. Appraisily's matched auction records add market context to that identity, although every offered work still requires object-level examination rather than attribution by artist name alone.

## Common works and media

Commonly encountered works are fine-art photographs and photographic prints, including editioned examples. Available biographical context associates Yarrow with wildlife, landscape, sports, model, Indigenous-community, and staged American West imagery. Before selecting comparable lots, record the exact title, dimensions, photographic process or medium statement, print date, edition size and number, signature, inscriptions, provenance, and condition. A broad description such as “print” may conceal important differences between objects.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's public auction evidence includes matched David Yarrow lots associated with prints, works on paper, and editions, but broad category labels should not replace object-level classification. The most relevant comparables align in photographic medium, dimensions, date, subject, edition size and number, signature or inscriptions, condition, and provenance. Documented exhibition history and catalogue references may further support identification and comparison. Realized prices should be reviewed on a like-for-like basis because reporting can differ in its treatment of premiums and fees, while private sales, incomplete feeds, and subsequent attribution changes may be absent. The observed auction record is therefore a research starting point, not a prediction of what a particular photograph will sell for.

## 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-auction evidence is incomplete and should be assessed alongside the specific work's authorship, edition, provenance, and condition.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17477648
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/1725148451596715970002/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/262053594
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yarrow
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-yarrow/