# James Lawton Wingate artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:42:47.685Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1846-10-09
- Death date: 1924-04-22
- Nationality: Scottish
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![James Lawton Wingate](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Wingate.jpg)
Henry Wright Kerr · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wingate.jpg

## About James Lawton Wingate

Sir James Lawton Wingate (1846–1924) was a Scottish painter associated with the art of the late nineteenth century. International authority records identify him consistently as James Lawton Wingate and confirm his lifespan and profession. The material collected for this profile points especially toward landscape painting: authority-linked work titles include Ailsa Craig and An Arran Croft, while another documented image is described as a river landscape. These references place Scottish rural, island, and waterside scenery among the subjects relevant to his work, although the available evidence is not detailed enough to define a formal movement or a complete catalogue of subjects. Collectors may encounter Wingate through paintings offered under his full name, the honorific form Sir James Lawton Wingate, or the authority-file form Wingate, James Lawton. Matching those variants to stable Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and Library of Congress identifiers helps distinguish the artist in auction and appraisal research.

## Common works and media

Wingate is documented as a painter, with the available evidence pointing principally to landscapes. Named works and image records in the source pack refer to Ailsa Craig, an Arran croft, and a river landscape, suggesting that Scottish island, rural, and waterside scenes are useful subjects to consider when researching a possible work. The pack does not establish a complete medium list or document editions, prints, sculpture, ceramics, or posters, so those categories should not be assumed without object-specific evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected evidence establishes Wingate's identity more clearly than it describes his auction market. An appraisal should begin by matching the attribution to established authority records and determining whether the work fits the landscape-related subjects documented in the source pack. The supplied sources do not provide readable major-auction-house lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or signature assessments. They therefore cannot support a price forecast or a claim that any particular subject commands a premium. Comparable public sales should be selected only after the individual work's authorship, medium, date, subject, size, and physical condition have been independently examined.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15459148
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/3781284/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500005563
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lawton_Wingate
- Wikipedia: https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lawton_Wingate
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/wingate-james-lawton-18461924
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/james-lawton-wingate/