# Gilbert Holiday artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/gilbert-holiday/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:08:09.905Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Magazine and book illustration, Works on paper and prints

## About Gilbert Holiday

Gilbert Holiday (1879–1937), identified in authority records as Gilbert Joseph Holiday, was a British painter whose career also included published illustration. Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, and Art UK align on his identity and life years. Surviving magazine illustrations credited to Holiday include scenes made for Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Devil's Foot in The Strand Magazine in 1910, demonstrating his participation in the period's illustrated press. His work was also entered in the painting event of the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Collectors may encounter Holiday through paintings, works on paper, prints, and period illustrations rather than through one documented movement or narrowly defined series. The available institutional sources establish his identity and dates more firmly than they establish a detailed chronology, training history, or movement affiliation. Individual works should therefore be assessed through signatures, inscriptions, publication context, provenance, and comparison with securely attributed examples.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include paintings, works on paper, prints, portraits, and published illustrations. Documented examples include narrative illustrations for Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Devil's Foot and a painted portrait of actress Gladys Carrington. Because the collected sources do not establish a complete catalogue of Holiday's output, medium, signature, inscriptions, publication history, and provenance should be verified for each object.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's collected public-auction page reports 52 matched records, including 27 priced records, spanning 2002–2025. That total differs from the 176-count directory input, and the market data includes a name variant not confirmed by the authority sources, so the record set should be reconciled before aggregate statistics are treated as artist-specific. For appraisal, compare works with similar medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration history, provenance, and attribution confidence. Edition details matter for prints, while publication evidence may be especially relevant to illustrations. Public realized prices provide comparable evidence rather than a forecast, and reporting practices can differ on buyer's premium and fees. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may not appear.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Record counts and name matches should be reconciled before market conclusions are drawn.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21464496
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/36809825/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500078800
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/holiday-gilbert-joseph-18791937
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Holiday
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Adventure_of_the_Devil%27s_Foot_02.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Adventure_of_the_Devil%27s_Foot_03.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Adventure_of_the_Devil%27s_Foot_06.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gladys_Carrington_by_Gilbert_Holiday.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gilbert-holiday/