# Gladstone Eyre artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:06:35.195Z
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## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian
- Common media: Watercolour, Oil painting

## About Gladstone Eyre

Gladstone Eyre, also identified in authority records as William James Gladstone Eyre, was an Australian painter active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Public biographical sources associate him with portraiture and landscape painting around Sydney and other parts of New South Wales, as well as Launceston, Tasmania. Surviving works documented in the source pack include watercolours and oil paintings of Sydney Harbour, coastal New South Wales, the Blue Mountains and Australian bush settings. These records place landscape imagery at the center of his documented output, although portrait work also forms part of his artistic identity. Collectors may encounter signed watercolours, oils on canvas or board, and views identified by location in their inscriptions or titles. His work appears in a substantial body of matched public auction records, making careful comparison possible when the medium, dimensions, subject, date, condition and attribution of the object under review are known.

## Common works and media

Documented examples include watercolour views of Sydney Harbour, coastal New South Wales and the Blue Mountains, along with oil paintings of bush landscapes and figures in landscape settings. Portrait paintings are also associated with Eyre. Auction and appraisal contexts may therefore include framed watercolours, oils on canvas or board, signed landscapes, inscribed location views and portrait works.

## Market and appraisal context

Gladstone Eyre's auction record includes paintings and works on paper, particularly watercolours. A useful appraisal comparison should match the object as closely as possible by medium, dimensions, date, subject and condition. Signatures, inscriptions and location titles may help establish context, but they do not replace attribution research. Provenance, restoration history, exhibition or catalogue references, and the quality of the painted surface can also affect how closely one result compares with another. Public sale records should be reviewed with their sale dates, currencies and treatment of buyer premiums in mind. Private transactions, incomplete feeds and later attribution changes may not be visible, so auction results are evidence for appraisal rather than automatic predictions of value.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/91536057/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500137775
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108556482
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladstone_Eyre
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gladstone-eyre/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gladstone_Eyre_-_2fc49d9a69.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gladstone_Eyre_-_ed242dfa36.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gladstone_Eyre_-_1704f37b7c.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gladstone_Eyre_-_8d74200bdf.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gladstone_Eyre_-_e1749b4968.jpg