# Donald Teskey artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:55:15.656Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Irish
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Illustration, Acrylic on paper

## About Donald Teskey

Donald Teskey, born in 1956, is an Irish painter whose authority records also document work as an artist and illustrator. Bibliographic records connect him with paintings, drawings, and book illustration, while the available auction material includes paintings and works on paper. One documented auction entry is an acrylic-on-paper work with a farmhouse and place-based landscape subject. Teskey is identified as RHA and as a member of Aosdána in the collected biographical source, although the present source pack does not provide institution-grade detail about those affiliations or establish a formal movement classification. Collectors may encounter his name through original paintings, drawings, illustrated publications, and works on paper offered at auction. Identity matching is strengthened by consistent records across Wikidata, VIAF, IdRef, and Art UK, all of which associate Donald Teskey with the 1956 birth year.

## Common works and media

The collected records identify Teskey with painting, drawing, and illustration. Auction material documents fine-art paintings and works on paper, including an acrylic-on-paper farmhouse subject. Bibliographic authority records also connect him with illustrated books and a publication presenting his paintings and drawings. The available source pack does not establish sculpture, ceramics, posters, or a named print series as characteristic parts of his output, so those categories should not be assumed without object-specific evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

A Donald Teskey appraisal should begin with genuinely comparable works rather than an artist-wide price alone. Medium, dimensions, execution date, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and attribution confidence can all affect how closely one auction result applies to another. For works on paper, the support and surface condition deserve particular attention; prints or editions should also be checked for edition information. Subject matter and the availability of similar public sales may further affect comparability. Public auction records are useful evidence, but they may omit private transactions and can differ in their treatment of buyer fees. Current authorship, condition, and provenance should therefore be verified before drawing a value conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21454516
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/277348092/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/050839012
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/teskey-donald-b-1956
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Teskey
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/donald-teskey/