# Frederick Arthur Verner artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian
- Common media: oil painting, watercolor

## About Frederick Arthur Verner

Frederick Arthur Verner (1836–1928) was a Canadian painter best known for his depictions of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and his evocative paintings of buffalo herds on the open prairies. Active during the second half of the nineteenth century, Verner developed a reputation in a subject area where he was regarded as virtually unrivaled by his contemporaries. His work provides a visual record of Indigenous life and the rapidly vanishing buffalo populations during a period of profound change on the western Canadian frontier. Verner combined field observation with studio composition to create atmospheric scenes that have become important documents of Canadian cultural heritage. His paintings appear regularly in North American auction sales and are represented in Canadian public collections. With over 200 works recorded in auction databases, Verner remains a recurrent presence in the Canadian art market.

## Common works and media

Verner's recorded output includes oil paintings on canvas, watercolors, and works on paper. His most characteristic subjects are buffalo herds on the western prairies, portraits and camp scenes of First Nations peoples, and western Canadian landscapes. Works range from small field sketches and studies to larger exhibition-scale canvases. Animal representations and genre pictures are the primary categories encountered at auction.

## Market and appraisal context

Verner's works surface most often in Canadian and North American auction sales, with oil paintings of buffalo and Plains Indigenous subjects attracting the strongest collector interest. Appraisal considerations include medium, canvas or support size, condition, provenance, and the security of attribution. Buffalo and western Plains scenes tend to be the most marketable subjects. Collectors should be aware that unsigned works and later reproductions exist, making expert connoisseurship important for confident attribution. No comprehensive catalogue raisonné was identified, so provenance documentation and exhibition history play an outsized role in establishing authenticity and value.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from library authority files, museum records, and public scholarship with available auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. For Frederick Arthur Verner, identity data is drawn from the Getty Union List of Artist Names, VIAF, Wikidata, the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, and Library of Congress authority files.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325835
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Arthur_Verner
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500023367
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/79400725/
- RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/80556
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86830598