# James Edwin Meadows artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:52:56.704Z
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## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Oil on canvas, Watercolour

## About James Edwin Meadows

James Edwin Meadows (1828–1888) was a British painter associated above all with landscape painting. Authority records identify him as an English landscape painter, and Art UK indexes him under the same life dates. Works represented in the collected material show a range of nineteenth-century rural and coastal imagery: haymaking near Sudbury, a view in Essex, figures beside a logging cart, and a shipwreck on the coast. These examples point to an emphasis on recognisable countryside, working landscapes, and dramatic shoreline subjects rather than a documented formal movement or named series. Collectors may encounter his name as James Edwin Meadows or the abbreviated J. E. Meadows, particularly on signed paintings. Oil on canvas is represented repeatedly, while a watercolour coastal scene is also documented. Because marketplace metadata sometimes varies, identification should be checked against the signature, date, medium, subject, and authority records rather than a name match alone.

## Common works and media

Works represented in the collected material include oil-on-canvas landscapes, rural scenes with figures and agricultural activity, named views of Sudbury and Essex, and a coastal shipwreck watercolour. Signed and dated examples appear in auction-derived metadata. No documented print series, sculpture, ceramics, or editioned works were established by the collected sources.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Meadows should begin with identity and authorship: the exact signature, inscription, date, and any supporting provenance. Medium and support, dimensions, subject, geographic specificity, condition, restoration, and framing can all affect comparison with relevant sales. The supplied Appraisily index associates 242 records with this artist, but the collected page did not expose individual realized-price details, so no price trend is asserted here. Rural English landscapes, named views around Sudbury or Essex, and coastal subjects should be compared with genuinely similar works, separating oils from watercolours and matching scale and date where possible. Auction descriptions are useful leads, but condition reports, ownership history, and direct examination remain important for appraisal.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity records with auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Authority sources are used to separate the artist's identity from inconsistent marketplace metadata.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16439798
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500026552
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95845638/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/54386
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/meadows-james-edwin-18281888
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/james-edwin-meadows/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Edwin_Meadows_-_Shipwreck_on_the_coast,_signed_and_dated_l.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Edwin_Meadows_-_James_Edwin_Meadows_(1828-1888)_Haymaking_near_Sudbury_signed_and_dated_%27James_E_Meadows_1862%27_l.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Edwin_Meadows_-_,_oil_on_canvas_landscape_View_of_Sudbury,_26.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Edwin_Meadows_-_Meadows_England,_(1828-1888)_View_in_Essex_oil_on_canvas_gilt-framed.jpg