# George Wainwright Harvey artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/george-wainwright-harvey/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:34:07.818Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Oil painting, Canvas support, Board support

## About George Wainwright Harvey

George Wainwright Harvey (1855–1930) is identified by Wikidata as an American painter. The available public source pack is modest and does not establish a formal movement, school, training history, or complete chronology. It does, however, document a group of paintings organized around recognizable places and seasons: Rowley marshes in early snow, dunes at Annisquam in autumn, winter in Annisquam, a Hudson River view at Newburgh, and fishwives at Scheveningen. Recorded examples include oil on canvas and oil on board, with dimensions ranging from a small board to larger canvases. These records suggest that collectors may encounter Harvey through paintings catalogued by landscape, weather, season, or coastal subject. Appraisily's artist input associates 295 auction records with his name, although the supplied source material does not expose the individual sale catalogues needed to distinguish unique works, repeat offerings, or attribution variants.

## Common works and media

The collected records describe paintings, including oils on canvas and oil on board. Documented subjects include marshes, sand dunes, winter scenery, a Hudson River view, and fishwives in a Dutch coastal setting. Several works are identified by a specific place or season. These examples support describing Harvey's known auction context in terms of landscape and coastal painting, but they do not establish a complete list of his media or subjects.

## Market and appraisal context

The documented examples vary by support, dimensions, named location, and subject, so those fields should be matched carefully when choosing comparable auction records. Oil-on-canvas landscapes should not automatically be treated as equivalent to smaller oils on board or to figurative coastal scenes. Appraisily's artist input associates 295 records with George Wainwright Harvey, but the source pack contains no underlying auction-house catalogues, sale dates, realized prices, condition reports, provenance histories, or detailed attribution language. The record count is therefore an inventory signal rather than evidence of demand or a price trend. A defensible appraisal requires review of the individual lots and close comparison with works sharing the documented medium, support, scale, setting, and subject.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For this artist, identity and selected work metadata are available, while detailed sale evidence remains limited in the collected source pack.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46085319
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/96426
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/george-wainwright-harvey/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Early_Snow,_Rowley_Marshes_by_George_Wainwright_Harvey.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Early_Fall_Coloring,_Sand_Dunes,_Annisquamis,_Mass_by_George_Harvey.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Harvey_-_Newburgh_on_Hudson_-_43.174_-_Rhode_Island_School_of_Design_Museum.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winter_in_Annisquam_by_George_Wainwright_Harvey.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Fishwives,_Scheveningen,_Holland_by_George_Wainwright_Harvey.jpg