# Irving Ramsey Wiles artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/irving-ramsey-wiles/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:10:33.861Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1861-04-08
- Death date: 1948-07-29
- Nationality: American
- Movements: Grand Manner portrait tradition
- Common media: Painting, Illustration

## Portrait

![Irving Ramsey Wiles](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Irving_Ramsey_Wiles.jpg/1280px-Irving_Ramsey_Wiles.jpg)
Unidentified photographer · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Irving_Ramsey_Wiles.jpg

## About Irving Ramsey Wiles

Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861–1948) was an American painter and illustrator born in Utica, New York. Public biographical references identify him especially as a portraitist, including a practitioner associated with upper-class society portraiture and the Grand Manner tradition. His historical identity is reinforced by records from Wikidata and the National Gallery of Art, as well as stable identifiers maintained by Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with painted portraits or illustration-related material. These categories should not be treated as a complete catalogue of his output, because the collected sources provide only a concise overview of his practice. The combination of his full name, life dates, institutional artist record, and authority identifiers helps distinguish Wiles from similarly named artists when matching auction lots, collection records, and images.

## Common works and media

The available biographical sources identify Wiles as a painter, illustrator, and portrait specialist. In auction and appraisal contexts, this supports two broad categories: portrait paintings, particularly works connected with society portraiture, and illustration-related works. The source pack does not establish a complete list of supports, techniques, formats, or named series, so more specific classifications should be verified from the individual object and its documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Irving Ramsey Wiles has a documented presence in Appraisily’s auction-record index, but the collected research pack does not include enough individual lot evidence to support a price trend or prediction. Appraisal research should begin by separating portrait paintings from illustration-related material and then selecting public auction comparisons that match the work type and subject as closely as possible. Wiles’s association with society portraiture may make subject alignment especially relevant when reviewing candidate comparisons. Object-level conclusions still require examination of the work itself and fuller records for attribution, condition, provenance, dimensions, sale date, and realized price. Those details are not established by this identity profile alone.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3950852
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1975.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Ramsey_Wiles
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Ramsey_Wiles
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Ramsey_Wiles
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/irving-ramsey-wiles/