# Frederick John Widgery artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:00:00.000Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Frederick John Widgery](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Frederick_John_Widgery01.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_John_Widgery01.jpg

## About Frederick John Widgery

Frederick John Widgery (1861–1942) was an English painter associated with the landscapes and coastlines of south-west England. Art UK records works in public collections depicting Devon seascapes, Dartmoor, the Mouth of the Yealm, Lydford Gorge and the River Tavy. This institutional footprint supports a clear picture of a place-based practice centered on moorland, rivers and the coast, although the available sources do not justify assigning him to a particular art movement. Authority files from Wikidata, VIAF and Getty ULAN distinguish Widgery and preserve name variants such as F. J. Widgery. Collectors may therefore encounter his work under abbreviated forms as well as his full name. His recurring Devon subjects provide useful geographic clues for cataloguing, while a secondary biography also associates his coastal work with Cornwall. For appraisal and entity matching, the strongest starting points are his dates, authority identifiers, catalogued name, depicted location and documented institutional or auction records.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Widgery most commonly take the form of landscape and coastal paintings. Documented subjects include Devon seascapes, Dartmoor views, the Mouth of the Yealm, Lydford Gorge and the River Tavy, alongside more generally titled coastal scenes. Cornwall is also associated with his coastal subject matter in the available secondary biography. The source pack does not provide enough work-level technical data to state reliably whether a particular auction lot is oil, watercolor or another medium, so the material and support should be verified directly for each object.

## Market and appraisal context

Widgery’s market should be considered work by work, with attention to whether a lot depicts a Devon or Dartmoor landscape, river, gorge, coastal view or seascape. Institutional titles recorded by Art UK show that named locations can be central to identification, so comparable auction records should be matched as closely as possible by subject and geography. Authority-recorded name variants also matter when searching sale archives. The supplied source pack indicates an extensive auction-directory footprint but provides no accessible lot-level results, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, detailed medium information or realized prices. Those omissions prevent a defensible price trend or prediction. A valuation should therefore begin with verified object details and use genuinely comparable public sales when they are available.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity and authority data with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices and comparable lots when those records are available and can be verified.

## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/widgery-frederick-john-18611942
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/21347016/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5498164
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500018904
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_John_Widgery
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/frederick-john-widgery/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_John_Widgery01.jpg