# Hector McDonnell artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:44:00.335Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Irish
- Common media: Painting, Etching, Drawing and illustration

## About Hector McDonnell

Hector McDonnell (born 1947) is an Irish painter whose public authority records also connect him with drawing, illustration, and authorship. A secondary biographical source additionally describes him as an etcher and identifies architectural subjects, landscapes, and portraits as areas of his work. These strands explain why collectors may encounter his name across several contexts: paintings, works on paper, etchings, and publications carrying his drawings. Library records preserve the spelling variant Hector MacDonnell, which can help when matching catalogues and sale records. The collected institutional sources establish his identity clearly, but they do not assign him to a specific art movement or provide a detailed chronology of stylistic periods. Appraisily therefore presents his practice through documented roles, media, and subjects rather than applying an unsupported movement label. This evidence-led approach also helps distinguish the artist from unrelated records sharing the McDonnell surname.

## Common works and media

Documented work types include paintings, etchings, drawings, and illustrations. Published authority records also identify McDonnell as an author and illustrator, so illustrated books or works connected with publication may appear in cataloguing contexts. Architectural views, landscapes, and portraits are the principal subjects named in the collected biographical material. The source pack does not establish editions, named series, or a period-by-period catalogue, so those details should not be assumed from the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

McDonnell-related lots should first be checked against the established authority identity and the documented MacDonnell spelling variant. The source pack supports several work-type distinctions—painting, etching, drawing, and illustration—and identifies architectural, landscape, and portrait subjects. These are useful cataloguing fields when selecting comparable lots. The collected Appraisily input signals an auction-record presence, but it provides no individual sale descriptions or realized-price excerpts, so it does not support a price range, market trend, or claim that one category is more valuable than another. An appraisal should therefore rely on verified object details and directly comparable public sale records, with attribution kept explicit.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identities with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Claims are limited to what the collected public sources support.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21466977
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/22311042/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/069257841
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500022238
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_McDonnell
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/hector-mcdonnell/