# Elbridge Ayer Burbank artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1858-08-10
- Death date: 1949-04-21
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Sketching and drawing

## Portrait

![Elbridge Ayer Burbank](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/EA_Burbank%2C_1904.jpg)
Jo Mora · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EA_Burbank,_1904.jpg

## About Elbridge Ayer Burbank

Elbridge Ayer Burbank (1858–1949) was an American artist best known for painting and sketching Native American sitters. Biographical sources describe an unusually extensive portrait practice, reporting more than 1,200 portraits involving people from 125 tribes. Burbank studied art in Chicago and later continued his training in Munich, placing his career within the broader development of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American portraiture. Geronimo is among the named sitters associated with his work, and the collected biography reports that Burbank painted him from life. Collectors may encounter both painted portraits and works on paper, reflecting the two principal media identified in the available sources. Authority records maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and IdRef consistently identify Burbank as an American artist who lived from 1858 to 1949. The source pack does not establish membership in a formal artistic movement, so this profile emphasizes his documented subject matter and portrait practice instead.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Burbank most commonly include painted portraits and portrait sketches or drawings. Available biographies particularly emphasize portraits of Native American sitters and describe a large body of such work. Collectors should avoid assuming that every work attributed to Burbank belongs to this subject group; the medium, sitter, inscriptions, and supporting documentation should be established from the individual object and its record.

## Market and appraisal context

Burbank's auction context should be evaluated through the individual object and closely comparable public sales. Painted portraits should be distinguished from drawings or sketches, while the sitter's documented identity may help determine how closely a work relates to the portrait practice for which the artist is known. The supplied Appraisily input reports 228 indexed auction records, but the collected source pack does not include their lot descriptions, sale dates, or realized prices. It therefore cannot support a price prediction or market-trend claim. A responsible appraisal should verify the work's medium, attribution, condition, dimensions, inscriptions, provenance, and subject documentation before selecting comparable lots and interpreting auction results.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3342298
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500016304
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/23787949/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92003114
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/18972465X
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge_Ayer_Burbank
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge_Ayer_Burbank
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge_Ayer_Burbank
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/elbridge-ayer-burbank/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EA_Burbank,_1904.jpg