# Harry Fidler artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1856-01-22
- Death date: 1935-05-10
- Nationality: British
- Movements: Impressionism
- Common media: oil painting

## About Harry Fidler

Harry Fidler (1856–1935) was a British painter celebrated for his vibrant depictions of rural life, particularly farm animals and working horses rendered in a bold impressionistic style with characteristically heavy impasto. Active from the early 1890s through the 1930s, Fidler built a reputation for agricultural and pastoral scenes that captured the energy of the English countryside. His canvases frequently feature ploughing teams, timber wagons, poultry yards, and orchard livestock, all built up with thick, expressive paint layers that give his work an unmistakable surface texture. He married the artist Laura Clunas, who adopted a closely related style, and both exhibited during a period when British painters were absorbing Continental Impressionist ideas into traditionally academic subjects. With nearly 200 documented auction records, Fidler remains a recognisable name in the British Victorian and Edwardian painting market.

## Common works and media

Fidler's output consists primarily of oil paintings on canvas and board. Recurrent subjects include ploughing scenes with horse teams, cattle and cows in orchards or pastures, poultry-feeding scenes, timber wagons, harvesting, circus subjects (notably Sanger's Circus), and coastal or regional figure studies such as A Ross-shire Fishwife. Many works are中等规模到大型展览作品，尽管较小的研究作品也存在。他在皇家学院的活跃展览实践意味着一些作品带有学术标签或展览历史。鉴定师应识别出厚重的厚涂技法作为关键风格标志，并将主题内容与农业劳动力和乡村动物生活联系起来。

## Market and appraisal context

Harry Fidler's paintings appear regularly in British and European auction sales, with oil on canvas being the dominant medium. Valuation is influenced most by the painting's scale, condition of the impasto surface, subject matter (horse and ploughing subjects tend to be most sought after), and exhibition or provenance history. The absence of a published catalogue raisonné means that attribution should be cross-referenced against RKD visual documentation and entries in standard references such as Bénézit and Johnson/Greutzner. Collectors should be aware that works by his wife Laura Clunas, painted in a similar impasto style, occasionally appear on the market and can be confused with Harry Fidler's output.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine structured identity research from authority files and museum databases with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lot data when available. For Harry Fidler, identity data is sourced from Getty ULAN, VIAF, RKD, and Wikidata, with biographical context drawn from encyclopedic and auction-house records. The 198 documented records in the Appraisily database reflect lots attributed to this artist across major and regional auction houses.

## Sources

- RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/27904
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500032142
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95879594/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15131843
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Fidler