# Frank Knox Morton Rehn artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1848-04-12
- Death date: 1914-07-07
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Frank Knox Morton Rehn](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Frank_Knox_Morton_Rehn_%283076517495%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Frank_Knox_Morton_Rehn_%283076517495%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
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## About Frank Knox Morton Rehn

Frank Knox Morton Rehn (1848–1914) was an American painter identified consistently by Wikidata and VIAF as a specialist in marine painting. A French-language biographical record gives his dates as April 12, 1848, and July 7, 1914, while authority records corroborate the years. His public entity records connect the same name across Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, and library authority systems, helping distinguish his work in catalogues and auction databases. The clearest supported context for his art is maritime subject matter: he is described as a marine painter rather than assigned to a specific movement in the collected evidence. Collectors therefore encounter Rehn chiefly through paintings catalogued around marine or maritime themes and through historical auction records indexed under his name. The present source pack does not establish a documented series, a narrower medium such as oil or watercolor, or a securely sourced movement, so those details should be assessed from the individual work and its catalogue history.

## Common works and media

The available sources support paintings with marine or maritime subject matter as the principal work type associated with Rehn. They do not provide enough evidence to characterize particular series or to state whether oil, watercolor, drawing, printmaking, or another narrower medium commonly dominates his auction record.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily index associates 173 auction records with Rehn, but the source pack does not include readable lot-level descriptions or results from a major auction house. Appraisal should begin by confirming that the catalogued artist identity matches the established authority records and that the work fits the documented marine-painting context. When public auction data are available, comparisons should use genuinely comparable paintings and consider the sale date, realized price, category, and subject match. The artist-level record count is not itself a valuation signal. Because the collected evidence lacks detailed lot histories, it cannot establish a reliable price trend, typical range, or medium-specific premium.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity records with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are publicly available.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12067050
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/21155834/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500017070
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Knox_Morton_Rehn
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Knox_Morton_Rehn
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/frank-knox-morton-rehn/