# Hubert Bellis artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/hubert-bellis/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:58:42.101Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1831-01-06
- Death date: 1902-04-16
- Nationality: Belgian
- Common media: Painting, Decorative painting

## Portrait

![Hubert Bellis](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Hubert_Bellis.png)
Unknown photographer · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubert_Bellis.png

## About Hubert Bellis

Hubert Bellis (1831–1902), also identified as Josse-Lambert (Hubert) Bellis, was a Belgian painter and decorative painter born in Brussels and later associated with Schaerbeek, where he died. Public biographical sources describe him as a nineteenth-century artist whose work centered on still life, especially flowers and floral compositions. The collected evidence does not establish a formal movement or school affiliation, so Bellis is best presented through his nationality, period, occupation, and characteristic subject matter rather than assigned to an unsupported art-historical category. Collectors may encounter records under the shorter Hubert Bellis name or the fuller Josse-Lambert form, making identity matching important when reviewing catalogues and auction results. Works connected with Bellis are most plausibly described as paintings, floral compositions, still lifes, or decorative paintings. Authority links support the basic entity match, although detailed institutional biographies were unavailable in the collected source material.

## Common works and media

The collected sources support paintings as Bellis’s principal work type, with flowers, floral compositions, and other still lifes appearing as the most clearly documented subjects. Decorative painting is also part of his recorded occupation. The source pack does not establish a reliable list of specific supports, techniques, editioned works, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or posters, so those categories should not be inferred without object-level evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Bellis’s market context should be assessed by work type and subject rather than inferred from a single artist-level figure. The collected biographies consistently identify flower painting and still life as central categories, while also describing him as a decorative painter. Comparable-sale research should therefore distinguish floral compositions, other still lifes, and decorative works, then compare closely related public auction records when those records provide sufficient object and sale information. The source pack includes an Appraisily auction-record signal but no accessible major-auction-house biography or detailed lot evidence. It therefore does not support price predictions, trend claims, or statements about rarity. Any appraisal conclusion should remain tied to verified records for genuinely comparable works.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2558712
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Bellis
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Bellis
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Bellis
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021058
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95810964/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/6274
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/hubert-bellis/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubert_Bellis.png