# Henry Charles Fox artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:59:22.236Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Watercolour on paper, Mixed media incorporating watercolour, graphite, and body colour

## About Henry Charles Fox

Henry Charles Fox (1855–1929) was a British painter whose identity is recorded by Wikidata, RKD, and Art UK. The collected works associated with him point to a sustained interest in rural and river landscapes. Watercolours depict wooded country lanes, farms, hayricks, rivers, cattle, horses, chickens, and boats. One documented example combines watercolour with graphite and body colour, showing that works attributed to Fox may extend beyond straightforward transparent watercolour. Dated examples in the source pack range from 1884 to 1919, spanning several decades of activity. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter signed works on paper featuring pastoral or waterside subjects, sometimes with a date or title. These recurring characteristics can help organize research, but a signature, familiar subject, or auction attribution alone does not establish authorship. Identification should be reconciled with the work's materials, inscriptions, condition, history, and comparable documented examples.

## Common works and media

Commonly encountered works are landscape watercolours on paper, particularly rural, farm, country-lane, and riverside scenes. Cattle, horses, chickens, boats, trees, and hayricks recur in the collected examples. Some works may combine watercolour with graphite and body colour. Signatures, dates, titles, dimensions, and paper condition should be recorded during appraisal.

## Market and appraisal context

Henry Charles Fox's auction market should be assessed work by work. Relevant distinctions include watercolour versus mixed-media technique, dimensions, subject, date, signature or inscription, and the condition of the paper. The collected examples include river views, farms, country lanes, livestock, and boats, as well as a work described as toned. Comparable records are most useful when they closely match these characteristics and use a consistent attribution. The supplied directory count indicates substantial auction-record coverage, but the fetched Appraisily page did not expose individual sale details because it was rate-limited. No price trend or value range can therefore be supported from this source pack alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Each record still requires work-specific review for attribution, medium, condition, and comparability.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21453106
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/28833
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/fox-henry-charles-18551929
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Charles_Fox_-_,_Watercolour,_On_The_Stour_Evening.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Charles_Fox_-_painting_by_Henry_Charles_Fox_depicting_a_riverside_scene_with_cattle_and_boats.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Charles_Fox_-_06f4996b6e.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Charles_Fox_-_,_Watercolour,_A_wooded_country_lane_with_horses.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Charles_Fox_-_,_Watercolour,_A_farm_scene_with_cattle,_chickens_and_hayricks.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/henry-charles-fox/