# Franz de Paula Ferg artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/franz-de-paula-ferg/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:56:19.881Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Austrian
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking and engraving

## Portrait

![Franz de Paula Ferg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Portret_van_Franz_de_Paula_Ferg%2C_RP-P-1907-924.jpg/1280px-Portret_van_Franz_de_Paula_Ferg%2C_RP-P-1907-924.jpg)
Rijksmuseum · CC0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Franz_de_Paula_Ferg,_RP-P-1907-924.jpg

## About Franz de Paula Ferg

Franz de Paula Ferg (1689–1740), also known as Francis Paul Ferg, was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Collected references associate him especially with scenes of everyday activity, including figures meeting in markets and village settings. He is also described as a landscape and genre painter, linking human incident with broader outdoor environments. Because Ferg worked across painting, drawing, and printmaking, collectors may encounter his name on objects made in several techniques rather than within a single uniform category. Records maintained by Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, RKD, and national-library authorities help distinguish him from similarly named artists and connect museum, library, and catalog data. His representation in Appraisily’s auction index also makes accurate identity matching important when comparing works across media and subjects. The available source pack supports his basic identity and working range more strongly than it supports a detailed chronology or movement classification.

## Common works and media

The documented range includes paintings, drawings, prints, and engravings. The most securely described subjects are scenes of daily life, particularly people interacting in markets and villages. Landscape and broader genre imagery also appear in the collected references. For appraisal research, works should first be grouped by technique and subject before they are compared with public auction records.

## Market and appraisal context

Paintings, drawings, and prints are the clearest supported categories for works associated with Ferg. Medium and subject provide useful starting points for comparison: an everyday market or village scene should be assessed against records for similar genre subjects and techniques, while landscape works require their own comparison set. Appraisily’s indexed auction records can supply sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those fields are available, but an aggregate record count does not establish a price trend. The collected research does not provide enough artist-specific evidence to make claims about scarcity or predictable market direction, so individual catalog descriptions and comparable public results should be reviewed carefully.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research 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/Q5493033
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500004915
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/19954250/
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb149737789
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_de_Paula_Ferg
- Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86_%D0%B4%D0%B5_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/franz-de-paula-ferg/