# Frederick Tayler artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/frederick-tayler/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:06:21.807Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English
- Common media: Watercolour, Engraving

## Portrait

![Frederick Tayler](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Frederick_Tayler_cdv.jpg)
John Watkins studio · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Tayler_cdv.jpg

## About Frederick Tayler

Frederick Tayler, also identified as John Frederick Tayler (1802–1889), was an English landscape artist associated principally with watercolour painting and engraving. The collected authority record describes him as an English landscape watercolour painter, while the available biographical excerpt also records his engraving practice and service as president of the Royal Watercolour Society. These sources place his work within nineteenth-century English watercolour culture, although the source pack does not establish a narrower movement or school. Collectors may encounter his name on landscape watercolours, other works on paper, engravings, and auction records catalogued under the shorter form Frederick Tayler. Because that name may be less distinctive than the full form, careful entity matching matters. The artist's 1802–1889 dates, medium, landscape subject matter, inscriptions, and documented attribution can help distinguish his work from objects by similarly named makers. Museum and authority profiles provide additional stable identifiers for cataloguing and research.

## Common works and media

Works most plausibly encountered in appraisal and auction contexts are landscape watercolours, related works on paper, and engravings. The source pack does not establish named series, edition structures, sculpture, ceramics, or other media, so those categories should not be attributed to Tayler without additional evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by confirming that an object is attributable to John Frederick Tayler, the English artist recorded with the dates 1802–1889. Medium is an important basis for comparison because the source pack documents both watercolour painting and engraving; an engraving should not automatically be compared with an original watercolour. Landscape subject matter is consistent with the documented practice, but subject alone does not establish authorship. Relevant auction comparisons should be selected by work type and attribution and then reviewed alongside the object's date and available documentation. The collected material does not provide lot-level condition, provenance, edition, or realized-price evidence, so it cannot support a price forecast or market-trend claim by itself.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with available auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. This profile's identity evidence is stronger than its collected lot-level market evidence, so individual appraisal conclusions require object-specific research.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6234155
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_Tayler
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021236
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/71259853/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93003008
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/frederick-tayler-541
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.9870.html
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/frederick-tayler/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Tayler_cdv.jpg