# Frederick Albert Slocombe artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/frederick-albert-slocombe/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:02:04.621Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English
- Common media: Painting, Etching

## About Frederick Albert Slocombe

Frederick Albert Slocombe (1847–1920) was an English painter and etcher. Wikidata and VIAF agree on his professional identity, while Getty ULAN and the British Museum maintain additional institutional records connected with his name. These authority links make it possible to distinguish the artist across catalogues even when records use abbreviated or inconsistent name forms. Collectors are most likely to encounter Slocombe through works classified as paintings or etchings, the two practices explicitly supported by the collected identity sources. The available evidence does not securely associate him with a named artistic movement, a defined series, or a consistent group of subjects, so those details should be established from the individual object and its documentation. Care is also warranted when normalizing names: VIAF displays a conflicting Alfred Slocombe heading within its authority cluster, making signatures, inscriptions, catalogue history, and object-specific provenance important to responsible identification.

## Common works and media

The securely supported work types are paintings and etchings. The source pack does not provide enough authoritative evidence to define recurring subjects, named series, edition practices, or a broader range of media. An object presented as a Slocombe work should therefore be classified from its physical technique, inscriptions, and documentation before it is compared with other examples.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, the source pack supports two initial distinctions: the object's medium and the reliability of its attribution. Paintings and etchings should be assessed within their own categories rather than treated as interchangeable examples of Slocombe's work. Name matching also requires care because the VIAF authority cluster exposes a conflicting Alfred Slocombe heading alongside Frederick Albert Slocombe. The collected material does not provide usable major-auction-house results, detailed sale histories, or evidence for price trends. Any valuation should therefore rely on verified object details and genuinely comparable public auction records, including sale date and realized price, when those records are available, rather than deriving a price from the artist's name alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Frederick Albert Slocombe, the present identity profile is stronger than the collected lot-level market evidence, so market conclusions should remain evidence-led and object-specific.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21294965
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/296049659/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500010891
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG46445