# Herbert Davis Richter artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/herbert-davis-richter/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:40:13.739Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting

## About Herbert Davis Richter

Herbert Davis Richter (1874–1955) is identified in the collected authority data as a British painter. His identity is connected to stable records maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, the German National Library, RKDartists, and Art UK. These links help distinguish the painter across museum, library, and art-market datasets. The available source pack does not provide enough substantive biographical material to establish his training, exhibition history, movement affiliations, preferred subjects, or named bodies of work. Appraisily therefore presents a deliberately concise profile: Richter was a British painter whose identity is represented across several international authority systems and an auction-price directory. Collectors may encounter works attributed to him in painting-related auction contexts, but any richer stylistic or biographical description requires additional institution-grade documentation.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only work type supported by the collected identity evidence. The source pack does not substantiate specific painting media, recurring subjects, named series, drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, posters, or editioned works. Those classifications should be added only when object-level museum or auction-house records can document them.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected evidence supports an identity-led market summary rather than a price conclusion. The first step is confirming that an attribution refers to the British painter represented by the linked authority records. Appraisily’s artist page indicates an auction-record context, but that page was rate-limited during collection, and no major-auction-house catalogue entry was successfully fetched. The pack therefore does not establish price levels, trends, scarcity, or the relative market importance of particular subjects. When underlying records are available, an appraisal should examine the complete lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, images, and genuinely comparable works before reaching a value conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile currently has stronger authority-file evidence than accessible object-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21453797
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500015678
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95777181/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017150285
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/127843272
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/66696
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/richter-herbert-davis-18741955
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/herbert-davis-richter/