# Frederick Hines artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/frederick-hines/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:21:23.021Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Watercolour, Gouache on paper

## About Frederick Hines

Frederick Hines is identified by Wikidata and VIAF as a British artist and landscapist active from 1875 to 1897. The collected records do not supply verified birth or death dates, so his documented working period is a more reliable biographical marker than an assumed lifespan. Surviving works represented in the public source pack include watercolour landscapes and a gouache on paper. Their recorded subjects include heathland pools, silver birches, lakeside scenery, sheep, and figures placed within rural settings. These examples position Hines within late nineteenth-century British landscape practice, although the sources do not support assigning him to a named movement or school. Collectors may encounter his name on signed or dated works on paper, particularly landscape compositions. Because the biographical record remains limited, identity matching should consider the medium, subject, inscription, date, and the established authority identifiers attached to this specific Frederick Hines.

## Common works and media

The collected examples are works on paper, especially watercolours depicting rural landscapes. Recorded compositions include heathland water, woodland with silver birches, a lakeside figure, and sheep within open scenery. A gouache on paper is also documented. Several object titles describe a signature, and one identifies a date of 1897, but these examples should not be treated as a complete catalogue of Hines's output.

## Market and appraisal context

Available evidence supports treating landscape watercolours as the principal comparison category, with at least one collected record also describing gouache on paper. Appraisal should begin with the individual work: its recorded technique, dimensions, subject, signature, date, physical state, and evidence connecting it to the British landscapist active in 1875-1897. Public records describing signed and dated examples can help organize comparisons, but the source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house analysis establishing price trends. Realized results should therefore be compared only with genuinely similar works, accounting for differences in medium, scale, composition, documentation, condition, sale date, and auction setting. An artist-name match by itself is not enough to support attribution or value.

## 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 Hines, the identity basis is strongest for his British nationality, landscape specialization, authority identifiers, and documented activity from 1875 to 1897; fuller biography and market evidence remain limited.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/315626075/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107447273
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500030551
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/38528
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Hines_-_Heathland_Pool,_with_Flock_of_Sheep_signed,_watercolour,_24.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Hines_-_Amongst_the_Silver_Birches,_signed_and_dated_1897,_watercolour,_37.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Hines_-_Gouache_on_paper.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Hines_-_LADY_BY_A_LAKE_Signed_and_indistinctly_dated_Watercolour_(56cm_x_39cm).jpg