# Henry Andrews artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/henry-andrews/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:16:31.092Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting

## About Henry Andrews

Henry Andrews (1794–1868) is identified by Wikidata and linked library-authority records as a British painter. VIAF connects the full name with the abbreviated form H. Andrews and distinguishes him from the several other historical figures who share the name Henry Andrews. Surviving works represented in the collected public-image records include figure compositions, social or narrative scenes, and a theatrical portrait of William Pleater Davidge as Malvolio. These examples indicate the kinds of paintings collectors may encounter under Andrews's name, but the present evidence does not support assigning him to a specific movement or school. Careful identity matching is especially important because general searches for Henry Andrews also return an eighteenth-century astronomer and other unrelated namesakes. Museum and authority identifiers therefore provide a stronger starting point than name matching alone when researching a signature, attribution, collection record, or auction listing.

## Common works and media

Publicly documented examples in the collected source pack are paintings, including figure-based social or narrative scenes and theatrical character portraiture. Examples associated with Andrews include Fête in a Tivoli Villa, The Reluctant Courtship, and a portrait of William Pleater Davidge as Malvolio in Twelfth Night. The evidence is not broad enough to characterize these subjects as an exhaustive catalogue of his production, and it does not establish prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, or editioned works as common market categories.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected evidence supports treating paintings as the principal auction category associated with Henry Andrews, but it does not provide a sufficiently detailed major-auction-house record for price conclusions or trend claims. An appraisal should first establish that the attribution refers to the British painter who lived from 1794 to 1868, since the name belongs to several unrelated historical figures. Relevant comparison work should then look for securely attributed lots with a similar work type, subject, composition, and format. Public auction records can provide context when sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots are available, but the authority sources in this research pack establish identity rather than monetary value.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21289077
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/19380583/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500027917
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/andrews-henry-17941868
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG17345
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Andrews
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Andrews_(1794-1868)_-_F%C3%AAte_in_a_Tivoli_Villa_-_443601_-_National_Trust.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Pleater_Davidge_as_Malvolio_in_%27Twelfth_Night%27_by_William_Shakespeare_Henry_Andrews_(1794%E2%80%931868)_Theatre_Royal,_Bath.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Andrews_-_The_Reluctant_Courtship.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/henry-andrews/