# Herbert Palmer artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/herbert-palmer/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:15:40.945Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints as a broad auction-index category

## Portrait

![Herbert Palmer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Herbert_S._Palmer%2C_A.R.C.A._%28I0007787%29.jpg/1280px-Herbert_S._Palmer%2C_A.R.C.A._%28I0007787%29.jpg)
All images from the M.O. Hammond fonds were uploaded as part of the Archives of Ontario’s GLAM Wiki project. · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_S._Palmer,_A.R.C.A._(I0007787).jpg

## About Herbert Palmer

The Herbert Palmer represented by this auction index is likely Herbert Sidney Palmer, an H. S. Palmer identified in the collected evidence as a Canadian painter, but the match remains provisional. A Wikipedia disambiguation page lists the painter with the years 1881–1970, while Appraisily's records include both “herbert palmer” and “h. s. palmer” as matched names. Archival photographs on Wikimedia Commons document Herbert S. Palmer and show him with an Ontario landscape titled “After High Water, Moore's Creek, Madawaska.” Together, these sources support a plausible connection to Canadian landscape painting. However, the source pack lacks a dedicated museum biography, scholarly catalogue, or securely matched authority record. Its Wikidata result appears to concern a different person with the same name. Collectors may encounter paintings assigned to Herbert or H. S. Palmer, but initials, dates, signatures, subject matter, provenance, and exhibition history should be checked before connecting an object to this artist.

## Common works and media

The source pack most clearly supports paintings, including an archival photograph showing H. S. Palmer with an Ontario landscape. Appraisily also places matched records within broad categories that include works on paper and prints, although the available evidence does not establish those media as a complete account of the artist's production. Paintings should be compared by subject, medium, dimensions, date, signature, condition, and provenance. Any work attributed only to “Herbert Palmer” needs added identity review because the name is shared by multiple people.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched index reports six auction records, four with prices, spanning 2012 to 2021. The observed results range from $360 to $921, with a median near $600, but this is a thin sample rather than a price forecast. Identity should be established before applying any comparable because several notable people shared the name Herbert Palmer. Relevant comparisons should consider medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, attribution confidence, provenance, exhibition history, and genuine similarity to the object being appraised. Auction reporting may vary in whether buyer's premiums or fees are included, and private sales or incomplete feeds may be absent. These records are therefore most useful as object-specific comparables after authorship and condition have been reviewed.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched public auction records, sale dates, realized prices, auction context, and comparable lots when available. Identity ambiguity, private sales, incomplete feeds, and attribution changes can limit the evidence.

## Sources

- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/herbert-palmer/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Palmer
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76273758
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_S._Palmer,_A.R.C.A._(I0007787).jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_S._Palmer_standing_with_painting_%22After_High_Water,_Moore%27s_Creek,_Madawaska%22_(I0010408).tif