# Edgard Farasyn artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:52:19.761Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Belgian
- Common media: Painting, Watercolor, Drawing and graphic art, Etching and engraving

## Portrait

![Edgard Farasyn](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Edgard_Farasyn_zelfportret_-_Edgard_Farasyn_-_NAVIGO_Nationaal_Visserijmuseum_-_0536_%281%29.jpg/1280px-Edgard_Farasyn_zelfportret_-_Edgard_Farasyn_-_NAVIGO_Nationaal_Visserijmuseum_-_0536_%281%29.jpg)
meemoo, Vlaams instituut voor het archief · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgard_Farasyn_zelfportret_-_Edgard_Farasyn_-_NAVIGO_Nationaal_Visserijmuseum_-_0536_(1).jpg

## About Edgard Farasyn

Edgard Farasyn (1858–1938) was a Belgian painter and works-on-paper artist whose documented practice included watercolor, drawing, etching, engraving, and other graphic work. Available summaries associate him with seascapes, landscapes, city views, genre scenes, interiors, portraits, and figure subjects. Fishermen became a particular interest later in his career, giving part of his production a distinctly maritime and working-life context. Collectors may therefore encounter his name across several object types rather than in paintings alone. His identity also appears under variant forms, including Edgar Farasyn and Edgard Farasijn, which can complicate searches of catalogues and auction archives. The supplied sources do not securely establish a formal movement or school, so his work is best described through its Belgian context, media, and recurring subjects instead of assigning an unsupported stylistic label.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Farasyn's name may include oil or other paintings, watercolors, drawings, etchings, engravings, and graphic works. Documented subjects include seascapes, landscapes, city views, genre scenes, interiors, portraits, children, and fishermen. Later fisherman subjects are a recognizable biographical context, but the available sources do not define a formal series or catalogue sequence. Medium, support, technique, dimensions, signature, and date should be recorded before comparing a work with auction results.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Farasyn should first establish its medium, technique, subject, dimensions, date, and relationship to securely identified examples. Paintings should be compared with paintings, while watercolors, drawings, etchings, and engravings require medium-appropriate comparables. Subject also matters when organizing evidence: maritime scenes, fishermen, landscapes, urban views, interiors, and figure studies may belong to different comparison groups. Searches should include the Edgar and Edgard spellings and both Farasyn and Farasijn. The collected pack does not expose object-level provenance, condition, signature, edition, or realized-price data, so none of those details should be assumed. Any valuation should rely on inspected object evidence and closely matched public sales.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile separates documented facts from inferences and flags gaps where the collected sources do not provide object-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3047522
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/farasyn-edgard-18581938
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/27312
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500007178
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/226745146/
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000362640188
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb149736708
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Farasyn
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Farasyn
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Farasijn