# George Elgar Hicks artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:39:28.751Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English
- Movements: Victorian-era British art
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![George Elgar Hicks](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/George_Elgar_Hicks_by_George_Elgar_Hicks_%281824-1914%29.jpg/1280px-George_Elgar_Hicks_by_George_Elgar_Hicks_%281824-1914%29.jpg)
George Elgar Hicks · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Elgar_Hicks_by_George_Elgar_Hicks_(1824-1914).jpg

## About George Elgar Hicks

George Elgar Hicks (1824–1914) was an English painter associated with the Victorian era. Wikidata and VIAF authority records align on his identity and lifespan, while Getty maintains a stable artist authority record useful for entity matching. Hicks is best known for large genre paintings and also worked as a society portraitist. This combination places him within the broad context of Victorian British art rather than a narrowly documented named movement in the collected sources. Collectors may therefore encounter his name in connection with substantial genre compositions as well as formal portraits. The available evidence is strongest on his identity, life years, occupation, and broad artistic practice. It is less detailed about his training, exhibition history, working chronology, and individual works. Those limitations make object-level evidence especially important when evaluating an unsigned work, a qualified attribution, or a painting connected to a similarly named artist.

## Common works and media

The collected sources identify paintings as Hicks's principal work type. They especially associate him with large Victorian genre paintings and society portraits. These categories provide useful starting points for classification, but the source pack does not establish a complete catalogue of his media, subjects, formats, or individual works.

## Market and appraisal context

Hicks's documented practice suggests that genre paintings and society portraits should be assessed as distinct work types rather than treated as interchangeable examples. Authority records can help confirm that a proposed attribution refers to the English Victorian painter who lived from 1824 to 1914. The collected source pack does not provide accessible lot-level evidence sufficient to establish price trends or quantify the effects of condition, provenance, dimensions, date, or subject. Any appraisal should therefore examine the particular object's evidence and compare it with relevant public auction results when those records are available, rather than estimating value from the artist's name alone.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1507303
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/8323442/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500000289
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Elgar_Hicks
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/george-elgar-hicks/