# Fred Cuming artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/fred-cuming/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:14:14.860Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Movements: Contemporary British landscape painting
- Common media: Painting

## About Fred Cuming

Fred Cuming (1930–2022), born Frederick George Rees Cuming, was a British painter best known in the collected sources for landscape painting. Authority records identify him as Fred Cuming and Frederick Cuming and connect him with the United Kingdom. The available biographical description places him within contemporary British landscape painting and characterizes his approach as traditional rather than tying him to a named avant-garde movement. His identity is supported by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and IdRef records. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name on landscape paintings and in auction listings. The source pack is stronger on identity than on a detailed artistic chronology, so this page does not assign undocumented schools, series, exhibitions, or exact life dates. Individual works still require object-level examination and comparison with relevant records before any conclusion about authorship or value.

## Common works and media

Available sources most clearly support paintings centered on landscape. They do not provide enough detail to claim recurring named series, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or a broader catalog of subjects. Auction and appraisal records should therefore retain each object's stated medium and subject rather than generalizing beyond the evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction records can help frame how works attributed to Fred Cuming have been catalogued and sold, but they are not price guarantees. The collected evidence supports landscape painting as the clearest category, while the Appraisily artist page provides an auction-price record signal. Comparisons should be limited to records that identify the same artist and describe materially comparable objects. Because the source pack contains no lot-level evidence, it does not establish how medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, date, subject, or sale circumstances affected particular results. Those details must be verified from the object and relevant auction records. This profile does not establish authenticity, catalogue status, scarcity, or a current market trend.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5497607
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500077310
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/15704624/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/05953348X
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Cuming
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/fred-cuming/