# Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/frederic-marlett-bell-smith/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:06:18.262Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Frederic_Marlett_Bell-Smith%2C_R.C.A._%28I0007798%29.jpg/1280px-Frederic_Marlett_Bell-Smith%2C_R.C.A._%28I0007798%29.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederic_Marlett_Bell-Smith,_R.C.A._(I0007798).jpg

## About Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith

Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith (1846–1923) was a Canadian artist best known as a landscape painter. Public authority links connect his identity with Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress, helping distinguish him in collection catalogues and auction databases. The collected biographical source associates Bell-Smith especially with views of the Rocky Mountains and the Selkirk Range, alongside landscapes connected with Quebec and Maine. These regional subjects provide the clearest context for how collectors may encounter his name: on landscape paintings and in Canadian-art auction records. The available evidence does not establish a formal movement, detailed chronology, or a broad inventory of media, so this profile avoids assigning unsupported labels. Identity should be matched carefully across the work, its documentation, catalogue description, and relevant public records before an appraisal conclusion is reached.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter Bell-Smith’s name in connection with landscape paintings. The source pack specifically associates his work with mountain scenery in the Rocky Mountains and Selkirk Range and with landscapes of Quebec and Maine. It does not provide enough evidence to characterize additional media, editions, print production, sculpture, or named series.

## Market and appraisal context

The available sources identify landscape painting as Bell-Smith’s principal work type and emphasize several geographic subjects: the Rocky Mountains, Selkirk Range, Quebec, and Maine. Those locations can help narrow comparisons to works with related subject matter. Appraisily’s public artist page indicates an auction-record context, but the collected source pack does not expose individual lots, realized prices, condition reports, provenance, or detailed medium information. A responsible appraisal should therefore verify the object’s attribution, medium, dimensions, condition, and ownership history, then compare it with genuinely relevant public sales by subject, work type, sale date, and auction context. This profile does not support a price forecast or market-trend claim.

## 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 available. This profile distinguishes documented identity facts from market details that still require verification in individual lot records.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5497096
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Marlett_Bell-Smith
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500078613
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96240971/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79148772
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000108309211
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/frederic-marlett-bell-smith/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederic_Marlett_Bell-Smith,_R.C.A._(I0007798).jpg