# Hildegarde Hamilton artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/hildegarde-hamilton/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:42:03.010Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Illustration

## About Hildegarde Hamilton

Hildegarde Hamilton was an American painter whose public authority records also associate her with writing and illustration. Bibliographic records use variants including Hildegarde Hume Hamilton and Hildegard Hume Hamilton, an important distinction when matching artworks, books, and catalog entries to the same person. The available authorities agree that she died in 1970 but disagree about her birth year: IdRef records 1898, while Wikidata records 1896. This page therefore treats 1898 as provisional. Collectors may encounter her name in connection with paintings as well as illustrated or authored publications. The collected evidence does not establish a particular artistic movement, school, signature subject, or documented series, so those classifications should not be inferred from the name alone. Further museum, archival, or exhibition documentation would be needed to provide a fuller account of her training, career, and artistic development.

## Common works and media

The source pack supports paintings and illustration-related material as the principal documented work types associated with Hildegarde Hamilton. IdRef also identifies authored publications under her fuller name and records an illustration credit for a 1931 publication. The available evidence does not identify particular painting materials, recurring subjects, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or named series. Objects outside the documented painting, illustration, and publication contexts require additional attribution evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Market assessment for Hildegarde Hamilton requires careful identity matching because the authority records contain alternate name forms and conflicting birth years. The available evidence supports activity as a painter, illustrator, and author, making it important to distinguish a fine-art object from an illustration or publication-related item before choosing comparable sales. The collected Appraisily auction page could not be read because of a rate-limit response, so this research does not establish medium-specific demand, price patterns, scarcity, or preferred subjects. Any valuation should use verified object details and genuinely comparable public auction records rather than applying results associated only with a similar name. No price prediction is supported by this source pack.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Hildegarde Hamilton, the present identity evidence is useful but limited, and detailed auction evidence could not be verified from the collected response.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28555120
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/080265510
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2004000555
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/hildegarde-hamilton/