# Frits Thaulow artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/frits-thaulow/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:05:10.177Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Norwegian
- Movements: Impressionism
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Frits Thaulow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Fritz_Thaulow_%281847_-_1906%29_%287859299524%29.jpg/1280px-Fritz_Thaulow_%281847_-_1906%29_%287859299524%29.jpg)
The Municipal Archives of Trondheim · CC BY 2.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fritz_Thaulow_(1847_-_1906)_(7859299524).jpg

## About Frits Thaulow

Frits Thaulow (1847–1906) was a Norwegian painter associated in the collected sources with Impressionism and naturalistic landscape imagery. His public identity is represented across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, national-library authority files, and museum artist records, providing a useful foundation for distinguishing him from similarly named artists. The available evidence characterizes painting as his principal field and landscape as the clearest documented subject category. That combination explains why collectors may encounter his name in searches for Scandinavian landscape painting and Impressionist art. Public records also use the forms Fritz Thaulow and Johan Frederik Thaulow, which can be relevant when comparing signatures, catalogue entries, collection records, and auction listings. The current research pack does not provide enough evidence to describe individual periods, named series, specific locations, or a wider range of media with confidence, so those details should be assessed from the work and its accompanying documentation.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence most clearly supports paintings depicting landscapes. It does not establish a sufficiently reliable basis for listing particular painting techniques, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, named series, or recurring geographic locations. Works offered under the artist's name should be compared with documented identity records and relevant auction descriptions before more specific classifications are made.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, first confirm that the work's attribution and artist identity are consistent with established authority records, including the documented name variants. The source pack supports landscape painting as the clearest auction-facing category, making subject matter and relevant public comparables useful starting points. Comparable records should be evaluated by sale date, realized price, catalogue description, and the degree of similarity to the object under review when those details are available. The collected evidence does not support a general price forecast or conclusions about particular media, periods, provenance histories, or condition effects. Those factors require object-specific examination and stronger lot-level evidence. A listing under Thaulow's name should therefore be treated as a research lead rather than, by itself, proof of authorship or value.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445891
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500015798
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG48260
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1924.html
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/thaulow-fritz-18471906
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_Thaulow
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_Thaulow
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/frits-thaulow/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fritz_Thaulow_(1847_-_1906)_(7859299524).jpg