# Jan Mankes artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jan-mankes/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:33:54.264Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1889-08-15
- Death date: 1920-04-23
- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking and engraving

## Portrait

![Jan Mankes](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Jan_Mankes_zelfportret.jpg)
Jan Mankes · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Mankes_zelfportret.jpg

## About Jan Mankes

Jan Mankes (1889–1920) was a Dutch painter, draftsperson and printmaker whose career belongs to the early twentieth-century Netherlands. Authority records consistently identify him across those roles, while published summaries describe a body of paintings, drawings and prints. His subjects included self-portraits, landscapes, birds and other animals, giving collectors several distinct kinds of work to identify. Mankes died at thirty, so his documented production was concentrated within a short working life. Public summaries give different approximate counts for paintings and prints, and this profile therefore avoids presenting a single oeuvre total as settled. No formal movement is assigned here because the collected institution-grade evidence does not establish one. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings, works on paper and graphic works, where the first task is to establish the medium and compare the object with records from the same work type and subject category.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Jan Mankes include paintings, drawings and graphic works or prints. Published summaries identify self-portraits, landscapes, birds and other animals among his recurring subjects. In an auction or appraisal setting, these categories should remain distinct: an original painting, a drawing on paper and a printed impression require different comparison sets. The collected evidence does not establish a definitive edition catalogue or settled totals for every medium.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal research for Jan Mankes should begin by distinguishing paintings from drawings and prints, since these are separate work types within his documented practice. Subject classification also matters when selecting comparisons: self-portraits, landscapes, birds and other animal studies should be compared with closely related works where possible. Appraisily's public artist page supplies an auction-record signal, but the collected source pack does not include extracted lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports or provenance histories. It therefore supports category-level guidance rather than a price forecast. A valuation should use verified object details and relevant public sales rather than relying on the artist name alone.

## 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. This profile separates well-supported identity facts from market details that still require object-level and sale-level verification.

## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/117953091
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/77116386/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2651452
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500024234
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mankes
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mankes
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jan-mankes/