# John Kingerlee artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/john-kingerlee/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T11:42:03.183Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Irish
- Common media: Painting

## About John Kingerlee

John Kingerlee is an Irish artist and painter associated in the collected sources with the Beara Peninsula in West Cork, Ireland, and with Fez, Morocco. The available authority records establish a stable entity identity across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress, but the source pack does not provide reliable birth or death dates or a supported movement classification. Collectors encounter Kingerlee through a substantial body of public auction records. Appraisily's matched market index covers sales dated from 1995 through 2026 and organizes results across paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. Those labels describe the auction dataset rather than a complete catalogue of the artist's practice. Because the collected biographical evidence is limited, attribution, dating, medium, and individual work history should be checked against the object and stronger documentary records when available.

## Common works and media

The collected auction index groups Kingerlee records under fine art and paintings; works on paper and prints; sculpture and mixed media; and decorative art and editions. Painting is also supported by the available biographical source. These categories are useful starting points for filtering comparable sales, but they should not be interpreted as a definitive catalogue of media or as proof that every matched lot has an equally secure attribution. The object's materials, technique, dimensions, signature, inscriptions, edition status, and condition should be documented before selecting comparisons.

## Market and appraisal context

John Kingerlee auction results should be compared with works that align in medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, provenance, and attribution strength. Signatures, inscriptions, edition details, restoration, exhibition history, and catalogue references can also affect comparability. Appraisily reports a broad observed price range, so a dataset-wide median or isolated high result should not be treated as a prediction for another object. Recent sales of closely related works generally provide more useful context than results from unlike categories. Reported prices may include fees on different bases, while private sales, incomplete feeds, and revised attributions may be absent. An appraisal therefore requires object-specific examination alongside the public market record.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Coverage may exclude private sales, incomplete feeds, or later attribution revisions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6243140
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500009178
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95736992/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2025104610
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/112761410X
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/87403
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kingerlee
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/john-kingerlee/