# Gilbert William Gaul artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: American Realism
- Common media: oil painting, illustration

## About Gilbert William Gaul

Gilbert William Gaul (1855–1919) was an American painter and illustrator born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Gaul built a reputation for military genre painting, depicting scenes from the American Civil War through World War I. He also produced Western landscapes and frontier scenes that captured the breadth of American experience during a period of rapid expansion. His illustrations reached wide audiences through popular periodicals of the era. Gaul is documented in the Getty Union List of Artist Names, the Library of Congress Name Authority File, and the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, confirming his standing as a recognized figure in American art history.

## Common works and media

Gaul's auction record includes oil-on-canvas military scenes, Western landscapes, and figurative genre paintings. Illustrations prepared for periodical publication also appear. Known titles include Between the Lines, Boats at the Shore, Caney Fork Cabin, and The Captain. Works range from large-scale battle compositions to smaller pastoral and frontier scenes. Collectors may encounter both original paintings and printed reproductions of his illustrations.

## Market and appraisal context

Gaul's work appears regularly at auction, with over 180 recorded lots spanning oil paintings, illustrations, and works on paper. Civil War and Western subjects tend to attract the strongest collector interest. As with many American genre painters of this period, value depends heavily on medium, subject, provenance, condition, and whether a work is an original oil painting or a published illustration. Collectors should verify attribution carefully, as Gaul's prolific output and the popularity of military-themed art in his era mean that misattributions occasionally surface.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from authority files and scholarly sources with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Gilbert William Gaul, identity data is grounded in the Getty ULAN, VIAF, RKD, and Wikidata authority records.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5560919
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Gaul_(artist)
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500005060
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/63227671/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93110916
- RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/30458