# Felix Augustin Milius artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1843-02-06
- Death date: 1894-02-09
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Engraving, Etching

## About Felix Augustin Milius

Félix Augustin Milius (1843–1894) was a French painter and engraver, born in Marseille and deceased in Clamart. Authority profiles maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the British Museum establish a stable public identity for the artist. Examples in the collected source pack show that his graphic work included etching, sometimes translating compositions by other artists such as Sigmund Freudenberger and Meindert Hobbema. His name can therefore appear in both painting and print contexts: a catalogue entry may describe Milius as the maker of a print while separately naming the artist responsible for the underlying composition. No formal movement is assigned here because the supplied institutional records do not provide enough evidence for one. Collectors may encounter his work through artist authority records, museum collection descriptions, and public auction listings for paintings and works on paper.

## Common works and media

Documented work types in the supplied sources include painting, engraving, and etching. Collected examples include reproductive etchings after compositions by Sigmund Freudenberger and Meindert Hobbema, covering narrative and landscape imagery. These examples support looking for both paintings and prints associated with Milius, but they do not establish how frequently each category appears at auction.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by determining whether the object is a painting, an engraving, or an etching and by reading its maker credits carefully. In documented prints, Milius can be identified as the etcher while another artist is named as the source of the composition; those roles should not be combined. Comparable selection should therefore match work type and authorship wording before considering auction sale dates and realized prices. The available evidence does not establish category frequencies or a price trend. Condition, provenance, inscriptions, and edition or state require object-specific documentation and should not be inferred from artist identity records.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46999099
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Augustin_Milius
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500044464
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14915456d
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG38459
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/felix-augustin-milius/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_old_fortune-teller_is_visiting_a_couple_and_their_newborn_Wellcome_V0025925.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Watermill_dli_1006600127_cor.jpg