# Francisco Smith artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/francisco-smith/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:03:59.450Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1881-10-10
- Death date: 1961-10-08
- Nationality: Portuguese, French
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Engraving, Lithography

## Portrait

![Francisco Smith](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/FrancisSmith.jpg)
Francis Smith (artist) · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Smith_(artist)

## About Francisco Smith

Francisco Smith (1881–1961), also catalogued as Francis Smith, was a Lisbon-born artist who established himself in Paris. Authority records identify him as a painter and draughtsman and also document activity as an engraver and lithographer. He is described as Portuguese and later French, a national context that helps explain why records may appear under different forms of his name and in both Portuguese- and French-language catalogues. Collectors may encounter Smith through paintings, drawings, lithographs, and other prints rather than through a single well-documented movement or named series. The available public authority sources are strong on identity, dates, name variants, working media, and his connection to Paris, but the collected source pack does not provide a museum biography or a supported movement classification. Appraisily therefore uses his authority identity and documented techniques as the firm basis for matching auction records while leaving stylistic, subject, and series attributions to evidence from each individual work.

## Common works and media

Authority data supports paintings and drawings, together with engraved and lithographic works. The collected sources do not establish recurring subjects, named series, or edition formats, so those details should be taken from the object and its catalogue record rather than inferred.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first confirm whether a work is catalogued under Francisco Smith or Francis Smith, because authority files use both forms. It should then distinguish the documented work type and technique—painting, drawing, engraving, or lithography—before selecting comparable records. The Appraisily page indicates an auction-record corpus for the artist, but this source pack does not expose individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, category breakdowns, condition notes, or edition information. Those record-level fields should therefore be checked directly before a valuation conclusion is made, and comparisons should not mix paintings with drawings or prints. The evidence collected here supports identity matching and medium-based grouping; it does not support a price trend, scarcity claim, or forecast.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Sparse or unverified fields are left qualified rather than inferred.

## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/074606018
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/46401002/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10285160
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500339018
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14933712j
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Smith_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Smith
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/francisco-smith/