# George Sheridan Knowles artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:35:04.378Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Illustration

## About George Sheridan Knowles

George Sheridan Knowles (1863–1931) is identified by Wikidata as a British painter and by VIAF as an English painter and illustrator. The records agree on his name and lifespan, providing a useful foundation for matching catalogue entries and distinguishing him from similarly named artists. The collected evidence offers little readable museum or scholarly biography, however: several institutional profiles were rate-limited, and the Getty excerpt did not expose its detailed record fields. No particular movement, school, training history, exhibition history, subject specialization, or named series can therefore be assigned confidently from this source pack. For cataloguing purposes, Knowles can be associated with painting and illustration, the two practices directly supported by the available authority descriptions. This profile prioritizes reliable identity resolution while leaving more specific art-historical characterization open until fuller museum, catalogue, or scholarly evidence becomes available.

## Common works and media

The available authority evidence supports two broad types of work: paintings and illustration-related works. It does not substantiate particular techniques, subjects, named series, editions, sculptures, ceramics, posters, or printmaking. Each submitted object should therefore be classified from its physical characteristics and documentation rather than assigned a narrower category solely from the artist's name.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first confirm that a work is associated with George Sheridan Knowles, born in 1863 and deceased in 1931, rather than a namesake. It should then determine whether the object belongs to the painting or illustration practice described by authority records. The collected material does not include readable auction-house lot descriptions, realized results, or artist-specific pricing analysis, so it cannot support a price trend or assumptions about favored subjects. Valuation should instead use the individual work's medium, dimensions, condition, attribution, date, provenance, and the closest relevant public comparable sales, keeping original paintings and illustration-related material clearly distinguished.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source limitations are retained rather than replaced with unsupported assumptions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21463739
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95779338/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500016026