# Edward Harrison Compton artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T15:22:39.354Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1881-10-11
- Death date: 1960-03-06
- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting, Illustration, Works on paper and prints

## About Edward Harrison Compton

Edward Harrison Compton (1881–1960) was a German landscape painter and illustrator of English descent. Public authority records consistently identify his lifespan and artistic roles, although some cataloguing systems describe him as British because of his background. His documented work belongs primarily to the landscape tradition rather than to a named modern-art movement. Collectors may encounter his name on landscape paintings, works on paper, prints, and illustrated travel books. The IdRef authority record, for example, connects him with the illustrations for the 1931 volume Austria by J. D. Newth. The abbreviated form E. Harrison Compton also appears in authority data and can help match bibliographic or auction records. Getty ULAN, VIAF, IdRef, Wikidata, and Art UK provide stable identity references for connecting his works with the correct biographical record. Because nationality terminology varies among those records, cataloguing should preserve the documented dates and full name alongside any national description.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter landscapes in painted or illustrated form. Relevant auction groupings include fine art and paintings, together with works on paper and prints. Published illustrations are also part of Compton's documented output, including travel-book work credited under E. Harrison Compton. The collected sources do not establish a dependable body of sculpture, ceramics, or named series, so those categories should not be presented as characteristic without evidence tied to a specific work.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with comparable works in the same medium and of similar size, date, subject, and condition. The public Appraisily record also identifies restoration history, surface quality, signatures or inscriptions, edition details, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and attribution confidence as important comparison factors. Recent realized results are useful only when the lots are genuinely similar and reporting conventions are aligned; some published totals may include buyer's premiums or other fees. The available auction categories are broad, while private sales, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may not appear. A final opinion should therefore combine auction evidence with authorship research, physical inspection, and a condition assessment rather than applying a single median result.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/081125534
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/47518939/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500013126
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/compton-edward-harrison-18811960
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1292471
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Harrison_Compton
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/edward-harrison-compton/