# John Charles Maggs artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Death date: 1896-11-03
- Nationality: English
- Common media: Painting

## About John Charles Maggs

John Charles Maggs (1819–1896) was an English painter best known for scenes of Britain’s coaching age. Authority records and catalogued work titles connect him with mail coaches, stagecoaches, coaching inns, horse-changing stops, and historic views of Bath. Named locations such as the Bull and Mouth, the Bush Inn, the Old White Hart, and the Plough Inn appear in recorded titles, making transport and place central to his recognizable subject matter. Collectors may also encounter the shorter forms John Maggs and J. C. Maggs. One tertiary source gives the conflicting name James Charles Maggs, but the supplied authority records favor John Charles Maggs. The collected sources do not establish a specific artistic movement, so the most defensible context is nineteenth-century English coaching and topographical painting. His works are encountered chiefly as narrative paintings of horse-drawn travel, inns, streets, and urban landmarks associated with the earlier coaching era.

## Common works and media

Commonly documented works are paintings of mail coaches and stagecoaches arriving at, departing from, or stopping beside coaching inns. Recorded titles also identify horse-changing scenes, named London and Cheltenham inns, Bath landmarks, streets, bridges, and churches. These location-specific transport scenes are better supported by the collected evidence than any broader movement label. The source pack does not establish whether prints, editions, drawings, or other media form a regular part of his auction market.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with precise identity matching because records appear under John Charles Maggs, John Maggs, and J. C. Maggs, while one source raises the unresolved form James Charles Maggs. For an individual painting, the depicted coach, route, inn, or town view can help identify genuinely comparable public auction lots. Medium, dimensions, date, signature and attribution, condition, provenance, sale date, and realized price should be assessed from the specific object and its catalogue record. The supplied pack confirms an Appraisily auction-record signal but provides no readable lot-level results or major-auction-house biography. It therefore cannot support a price forecast or market-trend claim, and comparable sales should be interpreted in the context of the individual work.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity and authority research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Claims here remain limited to the evidence contained in the collected public source pack.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95864621/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6246387
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500029657
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/maggs-john-charles-18191896
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016032901
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/51954
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maggs
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maggs
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/john-charles-maggs/