# Eileen Alice Soper artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:44:08.639Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1905-03-26
- Death date: 1990-03-18
- Nationality: English
- Common media: Etching, Book illustration, Writing and illustration for children's books, Wildlife illustration, Designs adapted for decorated china

## About Eileen Alice Soper

Eileen Alice Soper (1905–1990) was an English etcher, illustrator and author whose work joined children's publishing with close observation of wildlife. She produced etchings centered largely on children at play, illustrated books by other writers, and wrote and illustrated books of her own. Her best-known publishing associations include Enid Blyton and Elizabeth Gould. Designs featuring children and animals were also adapted for a Paragon China children's series in the 1930s. Later, Soper concentrated increasingly on wildlife writing and illustration. She was a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists and joined the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers in 1972. Collectors may therefore encounter her name across several distinct object types: graphic works, book-related illustrations, illustrated publications, and ceramics carrying adapted designs. That breadth makes careful identification of the medium and production context especially important.

## Common works and media

Commonly encountered material includes etchings of children at play, book illustrations featuring children or animals, books written or illustrated by Soper, later wildlife imagery, and Paragon China children's wares adapted from her designs. Cataloging should distinguish a standalone graphic work from a published book or manufactured ceramic object.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal begins by identifying whether an object is an etching, an illustration or drawing, an illustrated book, or a ceramic item using one of Soper's designs. Those categories should not be compared as if they were interchangeable. Subject matter also helps organize evidence: children at play and wildlife belong to recurring but different parts of her output, while links to Enid Blyton, Elizabeth Gould, or Paragon China establish a specific publishing or design context. Comparable public auction records are most useful when matched to the same kind of object and a relevant sale period. The collected source pack contains an Appraisily auction-record signal but no detailed major-auction-house market analysis, so it does not support price forecasts or broad claims about market direction.

## 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. For Soper, the present identity evidence is stronger than the collected market commentary, so individual objects still require category-specific research.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5349456
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500055685
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/92628588/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Soper
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Soper
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/eileen-alice-soper/