# Donald Manson artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/donald-manson/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:38:30.232Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting

## About Donald Manson

Donald Manson is recorded by Wikidata as a British painter, while Art UK identifies an artist of this name as born in 1948. These records provide the strongest identity match in the available source pack and distinguish the artist from a 19th-century Arctic mariner who shared the name. Public biographical detail is otherwise limited: the collected sources do not establish a full birth date, artistic training, movement, named series, or recurring subject matter. Collectors may encounter Manson through paintings and exact-name auction listings, but those listings should be checked against signatures, dates, provenance, and biographical clues before being assigned to the 1948-born British painter. Appraisily therefore treats this as a useful but still developing entity record rather than a complete biography. The Art UK and Wikidata profiles are the appropriate public references for identity matching and disambiguation.

## Common works and media

The collected auction page groups Donald Manson listings under fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These are broad market-index categories rather than a verified catalogue of the artist's output. Painting is the only medium directly supported by the available identity sources. Any print, sculpture, mixed-media object, or decorative work bearing this name should therefore receive additional authorship and provenance review before it is treated as characteristic of the 1948-born artist.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's public market index reports 29 matched lots, including 20 priced records dated from 2002 through 2024 and a reported observed range of $80 to $2,336. These figures describe the collected auction dataset, not a prediction for another work. Because public identity information is sparse and Donald Manson is a shared name, each comparable should be checked for a credible connection to the 1948-born British painter. Medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, provenance, attribution confidence, and similarity of subject matter can all affect comparability. Edition information is also important for prints or multiples. A qualified appraisal should examine the object directly and use appropriately matched, recent public sales rather than the artist-wide median alone.

## 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. Name matching, attribution, condition, and provenance still require object-specific review.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21454427
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/manson-donald-b-1948
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/donald-manson/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Manson