# Jan van der Zee artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jan-van-der-zee/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:41:18.094Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Painting, Lithography, Drawing and graphic art, Monumental art

## Portrait

![Jan van der Zee](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Jan_van_der_Zee%2C_1898_-_1988.jpg/1280px-Jan_van_der_Zee%2C_1898_-_1988.jpg)
Persfotobureau D. van der Veen · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_van_der_Zee,_1898_-_1988.jpg

## About Jan van der Zee

Jan van der Zee (1898–1988) was a Dutch visual artist. International authority records identify him as a painter and lithographer, while Dutch-language reference entries also describe him as a monumental artist, draughtsman, and graphic artist. These descriptions document a practice spanning painting, printmaking, drawing, graphic art, and work conceived for monumental settings, although the collected sources do not establish a specific movement or named series. Collectors may therefore encounter his name in connection with materially different kinds of objects, making correct identification of the medium important before records are compared. Entity matching is strengthened by consistent links among Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, ISNI, the Library of Congress authority file, GND, and RKDartists. These identifiers help distinguish this Jan van der Zee from similarly named people. The available sources are strong for his basic identity and lifespan but brief concerning his artistic development, exhibitions, subjects, and chronology, which remain areas for further scholarly research.

## Common works and media

Authority descriptions support painting and lithography as documented parts of Jan van der Zee's practice. Dutch-language entries also identify him with drawing, graphic art, and monumental art. The collected sources do not establish which of these work types appears most frequently at auction, nor do they document recurring subjects, named series, edition practices, or a detailed chronology. These categories should therefore be treated as identity and medium descriptors rather than claims about market frequency.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal, first confirm that a signature or attribution refers to the Dutch artist Jan van der Zee (1898–1988), using linked authority identifiers rather than the name alone. Paintings, lithographs, drawings, other graphic works, and monumental works should be separated because unlike objects do not form reliable comparisons. Appraisily has a public auction-record page for the artist, but this collected source pack contains no individual sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance information, or category breakdowns. Any valuation should therefore begin with verified object facts and use genuinely comparable public lots when detailed records are available. No price trend, scarcity claim, or market ranking can responsibly be inferred from this source pack alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity records with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Jan van der Zee, the present source pack provides stronger identity evidence than lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2279047
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/59948143/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500085772
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_der_Zee
- Wikipedia: https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_der_Zee
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jan-van-der-zee/