# Georges Scott artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/georges-scott/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:01:18.010Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1873-06-10
- Death date: 1943-01-14
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Illustration, Photography

## Portrait

![Georges Scott](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Photographie_du_peintre_Georges_Scott.jpg/1280px-Photographie_du_peintre_Georges_Scott.jpg)
Agence Rol · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photographie_du_peintre_Georges_Scott.jpg

## About Georges Scott

Georges Scott, also known as Georges Bertin Scott de Plagnolle, was a French painter, illustrator, photographer, journalist, and war correspondent active around the turn of the twentieth century. He became closely associated with L'Illustration, for which he documented military events through visual and journalistic work. French authority records also identify him as an official painter of the French Army. That combination of studio practice, reporting, and institutional military work helps explain why his name may appear on paintings as well as illustrations and other documentary material. Collectors may encounter him under several variants of his name, including Scott de Plagnolle and Georges Bertin Scott. His wartime subjects and publication-related work provide important context, but the available evidence does not support assigning him to a specific artistic movement. Careful identity matching is therefore especially useful when comparing objects and auction records attributed to Georges Scott.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal searches may encounter paintings, illustrations, and works on paper connected with Georges Scott's activity as an artist and correspondent. Military subjects and material related to L'Illustration are particularly relevant to his documented career. Authority records also describe him as a photographer, although the supplied source pack does not establish how frequently photographs attributed to him appear at auction. Because he used several forms of his name, catalogues may index otherwise related works differently.

## Market and appraisal context

Objects associated with Georges Scott should be assessed first by work type: a painting, an illustration produced for publication, and documentary material do not necessarily belong to the same market category. His documented name variants also make accurate catalogue matching important. Date and subject can help establish context, particularly when a work relates to military reporting, the French Army, or L'Illustration, but those associations do not prove authorship by themselves. When available, comparable public auction lots should be reviewed with their sale dates, catalogue descriptions, and realized prices. The supplied sources provide useful identity evidence but limited object-level market analysis, so any appraisal should also examine the specific work and its supporting documentation.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/075436191
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4422452
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500024363
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13013156d
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Scott
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Scott
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/georges-scott/