# Ian Houston artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/ian-houston/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:11:25.872Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting

## About Ian Houston

Ian Houston is identified by Wikidata as a British painter and is connected to established authority records including Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, ISNI, RKDartists and Art UK. These identifiers are especially useful because the name is not unique and the biographical material available in the collected sources is limited. Art UK’s public identifier suggests a 1934 birth year, but its underlying page could not be reviewed in the source pack, so that detail remains unconfirmed. Collectors are most likely to encounter Houston through paintings and auction listings attributed to him. For cataloguing and appraisal, the authority links provide the strongest current basis for matching a work or sale record to the correct British artist. His precise dates, training, exhibitions, recurring subjects and stylistic affiliations require stronger published documentation before they can be stated confidently.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence supports paintings as the only safely stated work type for Ian Houston. It does not substantiate recurring subjects, named series, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, drawings or posters. A purported work should therefore be catalogued from direct evidence rather than assigned a medium, period or subject category merely from the artist’s occupation. Lot-level auction descriptions may broaden this picture when they can be reviewed.

## Market and appraisal context

Market review should begin by confirming that a work is attributed to the same Ian Houston identified by the British-artist authority records. Appraisily’s public artist record indicates an associated body of auction data, but the collected response did not expose individual lot descriptions, sale dates or realized prices. No reliable price trend can therefore be inferred here. A defensible comparison should use public sales confidently assigned to the authority-linked painter and should compare like with like. Work type and documented attribution are the only factors directly supported by this source pack; date, support, dimensions, condition, provenance, subject and attribution qualifiers should be weighed only when they are documented in the relevant object and comparable-sale records.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices and comparable lots when those records are available and can be matched to the correct artist.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21454970
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500071613
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96182221/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007101426
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000398912077
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/204951
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/houston-ian-b-1934
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ian-houston/