# Emmery Rondahl artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:48:42.543Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Danish
- Common media: Oil on canvas, Drawing

## About Emmery Rondahl

Emmery Rondahl (1858–1914) was a Danish painter, draftsman, and illustrator. Authority records consistently associate him with Denmark and identify his work across painting and drawing. Surviving public-domain examples reveal a varied practice rather than a single documented movement or narrowly defined school. They include oil-on-canvas figure studies, narrative scenes, a steamship being moored in a Norwegian fjord, academy drawings of eagles, and an illustrated map of Danish parliamentary districts. This range helps explain why collectors may encounter Rondahl under several descriptive categories, including paintings, works on paper, animal studies, maritime subjects, and historical illustration. The present source pack does not provide enough scholarly evidence to assign him to a particular movement or to reconstruct his training, exhibitions, or career chronology in detail. Identification should therefore emphasize his established Danish identity, recorded occupations, dates, medium, subject, signature, and the individual work's provenance rather than an unsupported stylistic label.

## Common works and media

Documented examples in the source pack include oil paintings on canvas, figurative life studies, narrative interior scenes, maritime and Nordic coastal subjects, academy-style animal drawings, and cartographic illustration. Because the evidence set is limited, these examples describe known work types rather than a complete catalogue of Rondahl's production.

## Market and appraisal context

Rondahl's public auction evidence in the collected data is very thin, so a single observed result should not be treated as a general price level. Appraisal should begin by separating paintings from drawings and illustrated or cartographic material, then comparing works of similar medium, dimensions, date, subject, and attribution status. Condition, restoration, surface quality, signatures, inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references may also affect comparability. Narrative figure paintings, life studies, maritime scenes, animal drawings, and maps should not automatically be grouped into one market category. Any conclusion should be checked against current, like-for-like public sales and adjusted for reporting differences, incomplete feeds, and evidence specific to the object.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Rondahl's collected market evidence is currently sparse and should be interpreted cautiously.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52148461
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500188742
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/173179928/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/466257
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/emmery-rondahl/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standing_life_study_by_Emmery_Rondahl.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rondahl_Emmery_The_Doctors_Orders.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmery_Rondahl_-_Et_dampskib_fort%C3%B8jes_ved_molen_i_en_norsk_fjord_-_1893.png
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmery_Rondahl_-_Et_%C3%B8rnehoved.png
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valgdistrikter_1901_af_Emmery_Rondahl.jpg