# Harold Riley artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/harold-riley/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:23:53.971Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1934-12-21
- Death date: 2023-04-18
- Nationality: English, British
- Common media: Painting, Engraving, Lithography

## Portrait

![Harold Riley](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Harold_Riley_Photograph.jpg/1280px-Harold_Riley_Photograph.jpg)
SaraStiller · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harold_Riley_Photograph.jpg

## About Harold Riley

Harold Francis Riley (1934–2023) was an English artist associated especially with painting and printmaking. Authority records from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and ISNI distinguish him as a discrete public entity, while biographical sources describe him more specifically as a painter, engraver, and lithographer. He was born in Salford on 21 December 1934 and died on 18 April 2023; the exact day-level dates in this source pack depend on a Wikipedia biography and await confirmation from an accessible institutional source. An often-repeated early-career detail says that Salford Museum and Art Gallery bought his first painting when he was eleven. Collectors may therefore encounter Riley’s name across paintings, engravings, and lithographs rather than in a single medium. This profile does not assign him to a named movement or describe recurring subjects because the collected sources provide insufficient institution-grade evidence for those claims.

## Common works and media

The collected sources support three broad types of work associated with Harold Riley: paintings, engravings, and lithographs. They do not provide enough dependable detail to characterize recurring subjects, named series, typical dimensions, edition sizes, or preferred materials. Those features should be recorded from the individual object and checked against documented examples before selecting auction comparables.

## Market and appraisal context

The available source pack establishes that Riley worked as a painter, engraver, and lithographer, so auction records should be separated by work type before comparison. It does not include accessible lot-level evidence or major-auction-house market commentary, and several institutional records were rate-limited. Accordingly, no trend, premium, scarcity, edition pattern, or price forecast is asserted here. For an appraisal, the object’s medium and classification should first be verified; any market conclusion should then be tested against genuinely comparable public records with clear sale dates, realized prices, and lot descriptions.

## 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 Harold Riley, this source pack is stronger on identity than on lot-level market evidence, so its market conclusions remain deliberately limited.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15461359
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021322
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Riley_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Riley
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/266814592/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb99107139
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/000000038283326X
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/riley-harold-19342023
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/harold-riley/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harold_Riley_Photograph.jpg