# Johannes Franciscus Spohler artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T21:00:11.683Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Painting

## About Johannes Franciscus Spohler

Johannes Franciscus Spohler, also catalogued as Johannes Franciscus Spöhler, was a Dutch painter born in 1853. Authority data establishes his identity and occupation, but it does not provide a dependable movement label or a detailed account of his training and career. The records also conflict over his death year: Getty ULAN and German National Library headings aggregated by VIAF give 1894, while a Wikidata-linked heading gives 1923. This profile provisionally uses 1894 and preserves the discrepancy for further review. One documented image associated with the artist shows Luttik Oudorp in Alkmaar, with the Weigh House tower in the background, supporting an urban Dutch subject context without defining his entire output. Collectors principally encounter Spohler through paintings in auction catalogues. Appraisily has matched both accented and unaccented forms of his name across a substantial body of public sale records.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence securely identifies Spohler as a painter, and Appraisily classifies paintings as the clearest auction category. A documented example depicts an urban view in Alkmaar, but the source pack is too limited to treat that subject as representative of his complete oeuvre. It does not adequately establish recurring print editions, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or mixed-media production, so those categories should not be assigned to him without work-specific evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched dataset reports 135 records, including 95 priced results, with an observed range of $300 to $62,400 and a median near $6,474. These figures describe the available dataset and are not an estimate for an individual painting. Useful comparisons should align medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, provenance, catalogue history, and attribution confidence. Reporting conventions may differ on whether buyer premiums or other fees are included, while private transactions and incomplete feeds may be absent. The unresolved death-year conflict should also be checked when cataloguing a work because chronology can influence attribution and comparable selection.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity records with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when available. Private sales, incomplete feeds, reporting differences, and later attribution changes may not be represented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16766377
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500005541
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95714653/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/74392
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Franciscus_Spohler
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Franciscus_Sp%C3%B6hler
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/johannes-franciscus-spohler/