# John Graham Lough artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:31:30.515Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English
- Common media: Sculpture

## Portrait

![John Graham Lough](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/North-country_sketches%2C_notes%2C_essays_and_reviews_%281893%29_%2814764220742%29.jpg/1280px-North-country_sketches%2C_notes%2C_essays_and_reviews_%281893%29_%2814764220742%29.jpg)
Neasham, George; Bewick, John, 1760-1795; Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828; Wordsworth Collection · No restrictions
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North-country_sketches,_notes,_essays_and_reviews_(1893)_(14764220742).jpg

## About John Graham Lough

John Graham Lough (1798–1876) was an English sculptor associated with nineteenth-century British sculpture. The available biographical material connects him particularly with funerary monuments, portrait sculpture, and ideal classical figures of men and women. These strands explain why collectors may encounter his name in several contexts: commemorative sculpture, likenesses of named sitters, and figure sculpture drawing on classical subjects. His identity is linked across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, the British Museum, and Art UK, providing useful anchors for entity matching. Several of those institutional pages could not be retrieved successfully in the collected source pack, however, so the evidence is stronger for his basic identity and principal work types than for a detailed account of his training, commissions, or stylistic development. Any proposed identification should be evaluated from the individual object and its documentation rather than from subject resemblance alone.

## Common works and media

Commonly documented work types are portrait sculpture, funerary monuments, and ideal classical male and female figures. The collected sources do not provide a reliable breakdown by material, dimensions, edition, or date. Those characteristics should therefore be taken from the individual object and checked against a specific museum, collection, or auction record rather than generalized from the artist name.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily directory signal associates 256 auction records with the artist name John Graham Lough. That count suggests a body of searchable market material, but it does not establish that every record concerns a securely attributed work or that all records are suitable comparables. This source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house lot descriptions or realized-price examples, so it cannot support a price range or market-trend claim. When underlying records are available, comparisons should be organized around the documented work types—portrait sculpture, funerary or memorial sculpture, and ideal classical figures—and checked for attribution before use. Sale dates and realized prices can add context only when the corresponding lot evidence is available for review.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6235982
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Graham_Lough
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500041935
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/53175913/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86116985
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG36237
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/lough-john-graham-17981876
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/john-graham-lough/