# John Henry Lorimer artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Nationality: Scottish, British
- Movements: Late 19th / early 20th century Scottish painting
- Common media: Oil on canvas

## About John Henry Lorimer

John Henry Lorimer (1856–1936) was a Scottish painter known for accomplished portraits and warmly observed genre scenes of everyday life. Active from the late Victorian period into the early twentieth century, Lorimer built a reputation for capturing domestic interiors, family gatherings, and refined social settings with careful attention to light and atmosphere. His portrait practice extended to prominent sitters of his era, including clerics, academics, and figures from Scottish civic life. Works such as conversation pieces and informal group portraits reveal an artist equally skilled at narrative composition and individual likeness. Lorimer's paintings are represented in public collections including the Tate, and he is documented in the RKD, VIAF, and Getty ULAN authority files.

## Common works and media

Lorimer's most frequently encountered works are oil paintings, including formal and informal portraits, domestic genre scenes, conversation pieces, and occasional landscapes and still lifes. Titles documented in authority files include portrait commissions of named sitters, family interior scenes, and works such as landscape and seasonal subjects. Works on paper are less commonly documented. Collectors may also encounter reproduction prints of his more popular compositions.

## Market and appraisal context

Lorimer's works appear in the British and Scottish picture categories at auction, most commonly as oil-on-canvas portraits and domestic genre scenes. Factors that can affect appraisal include the identity of the sitter (particularly for commissioned portraits of notable figures), the painting's provenance and exhibition history, its condition and original framing, and whether it belongs to a recognized period of the artist's output. Collectors should also consider whether a work has been included in institutional exhibitions or catalogued in the RKD. Comparable auction results for late Victorian and Edwardian Scottish genre painting provide useful benchmarks, though realized prices vary widely by size, subject, and condition.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from museum, library authority, and catalogue sources with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For John Henry Lorimer, this page draws on Tate artist records, the Getty ULAN authority file, VIAF, RKD documentation, and Wikidata entity data.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6238872
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Lorimer
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500014237
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/55513385/
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-henry-lorimer-355
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/50936
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82254170