# Jan Jacob Spohler artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jan-jacob-spohler/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:06:39.342Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Oil on canvas

## Portrait

![Jan Jacob Spohler](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Portret_J.J._Sp%C3%B6hler_door_J.L._Cornet.jpg/1280px-Portret_J.J._Sp%C3%B6hler_door_J.L._Cornet.jpg)
Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_J.J._Sp%C3%B6hler_door_J.L._Cornet.jpg

## About Jan Jacob Spohler

Jan Jacob Spohler, also recorded as Jan Jacob Spöhler, was a Dutch painter who lived from 1811 to 1866. Authority records maintained through Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN consistently identify him as a 19th-century Dutch artist. A documented oil-on-canvas winter landscape provides evidence for his association with landscape painting, although the available source material does not support assigning him to a specific formal movement. Collectors may encounter his name with or without the umlaut, making authority-record matching important when reviewing catalogues and auction listings. His presence in public auction records also means that identification should account for spelling variants and the precise attribution language attached to a work. The current evidence is strongest for his basic identity, dates, nationality, occupation, and an example of winter-landscape subject matter; fuller conclusions about training, regional affiliations, or the breadth of his oeuvre require additional scholarly sources.

## Common works and media

The source pack identifies Spohler as a painter and documents an oil-on-canvas winter landscape. Paintings and Dutch landscape subjects are therefore the best-supported work types for initial catalogue matching. The available evidence is insufficient to characterize drawings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, editions, posters, or named series as regular parts of his auction market.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraising a work associated with Jan Jacob Spohler begins with confirming that the catalogue entry refers to the Dutch painter born in 1811, including records filed under the Spöhler spelling. The available public source pack supports comparison with paintings assigned to the artist and identifies an oil-on-canvas winter landscape as one documented example. Relevant comparisons should therefore be matched by work type, medium, subject, and attribution wording rather than by artist name alone. The collected material does not expose enough lot-level information to support price forecasts or claims about market direction, rarity, provenance, condition, or relative demand. Any valuation should use verifiable public sales with comparable characteristics and should preserve distinctions among firmly attributed works and qualified attributions.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Authority identifiers and spelling variants are used to reduce mistaken entity matches.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6149109
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500007818
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95728783/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Jacob_Sp%C3%B6hler
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jan-jacob-spohler/