# James William Booth artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/james-william-booth/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:59:15.818Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

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

## About James William Booth

James William Booth (1867–1953) was a British painter whose surviving public examples in the collected material center on landscape subjects. Works associated with him include watercolours and oil paintings on canvas or panel. The documented examples range from village and windmill views to harvesting, hay wagons, ploughing horses, and fishing boats, indicating sustained engagement with rural labor, cultivated landscapes, and coastal life. Collectors may encounter signed works in several formats, from modest oil panels to larger framed watercolours. Booth is represented by stable records in Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, RKDartists, and Art UK, which help distinguish him from similarly named artists and connect auction records to the correct identity. The available sources do not establish a named movement, complete exhibition history, or formal chronology, so those details should not be inferred without stronger documentation.

## Common works and media

Documented examples include watercolour landscapes and oil paintings on canvas or panel. Subjects represented in the source pack include harvesting, hay wagons, ploughing horses, village buildings, windmills, fishing boats, and coastal scenes. Signed framed watercolours, compact landscape oils, and dated panels may therefore arise in appraisal and auction research. These examples describe the available source material rather than a complete catalogue of Booth's production.

## Market and appraisal context

Works attributed to James William Booth appear in auction contexts as British landscape paintings, oils, and watercolours. An appraisal should distinguish the medium and support, record dimensions, examine the signature and inscriptions, and note any date, labels, or other provenance evidence. Rural, agricultural, village, and maritime subjects are represented in the collected examples, but subject alone does not establish authorship or value. Condition, restoration, framing, provenance, and the quality and relevance of comparable public sales can materially affect an assessment. The collected Appraisily page indicates an auction-record context, but its lot-level data was unavailable during this research pass; no price trend or forecast is therefore supported here.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity and authority records with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Object-specific attribution and valuation still require review of the work itself and its documentation.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21457907
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500058862
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96075516/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/10639
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/booth-james-william-18671953
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/james-william-booth/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_William_Booth_-_a5f42aca42.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_William_Booth_-_JAMES_W.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_William_Booth_-_%27No_6_Fishing_Boats,%27_1935.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_William_Booth_-_,_THE_HAY_WAGON,_signed,_watercolour,_framed.jpg