# Gary Benfield artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/gary-benfield/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T09:44:33.165Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Illustration

## About Gary Benfield

Gary Benfield is identified in Wikidata as a British painter. The limited public biography collected for this page also describes studies at Stourbridge College of Art and Wrexham College of Art, followed by freelance illustration from 1986 and studio-based painting in London. Because that education and career chronology currently rests on a single Wikipedia-language biography, it should be treated as provisional rather than as a fully documented curriculum vitae. No museum, artist estate, university, catalogue raisonné, or major reference biography was present in the collected source pack, and no well-supported movement or school could be assigned. Collectors are most likely to encounter Benfield through the secondary market: Appraisily's matched records place his name across paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture or mixed media, and decorative editions. Those labels are broad, so each work still requires direct examination for medium, date, authorship, edition status, and condition.

## Common works and media

The collected market page groups Gary Benfield results under fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These are auction-index categories rather than a verified catalogue of the artist's complete output. For appraisal purposes, a submitted work should therefore be identified from its physical characteristics, including support, technique, dimensions, signature, inscriptions, edition numbering, and any labels or provenance documents.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's market index contains matched public auction records for Gary Benfield across several broad categories. These records can help establish a comparison set, but they should not be read as a price prediction for an unidentified work. A useful appraisal comparison should align as closely as possible on medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, signature or inscriptions, edition status, provenance, and attribution confidence. Sale date and the reporting of buyer premiums or fees also matter when comparing realized prices. Private transactions and incomplete auction feeds may not appear in the dataset, while later attribution or condition findings can change how relevant an older result is.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. The available evidence for Gary Benfield is stronger for auction activity than for a fully documented biography.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18092758
- Wikipedia: https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Benfield
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gary-benfield/