# John Quincy Adams artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/john-quincy-adams/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:19:32.971Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Austrian
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![John Quincy Adams](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/John_Quincy_Adams-Barakovich.jpg/1280px-John_Quincy_Adams-Barakovich.jpg)
Edith Barakovich · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Quincy_Adams-Barakovich.jpg

## About John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams (1873–1933) was an Austrian painter of American ancestry, identified in the collected sources primarily with portrait and genre painting. He should not be confused with the American president of the same name; stable authority identifiers connect this profile to the Austrian artist. His documented practice places him in the setting of European portraiture and genre painting around the turn of the twentieth century, although the available source pack does not establish membership in a named movement. Collectors may encounter works catalogued as portraits or genre scenes, but the collected research does not support a precise account of preferred materials, formal series, or a complete chronology. Useful entity-matching anchors include his Austrian nationality, occupation as a painter, 1933 death year, and records maintained by several international authority services. His birth year remains unsettled: Wikidata gives 1873, while the collected Wikimedia portrait metadata gives 1874.

## Common works and media

The collected sources characterize Adams as a portrait and genre painter. Portrait paintings and genre scenes are therefore the work types most securely associated with him in this research. The available material does not establish a dependable breakdown by medium, support, size, named series, or edition, so objects outside those broad categories require additional documentary comparison and attribution research.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first establish that a work is attributable to the Austrian painter John Quincy Adams, not merely to a namesake. Because the available biography identifies portraiture and genre painting as his principal contexts, comparable selection should distinguish those work types and match subject, date, medium, support, dimensions, and execution where documented. Condition, restoration, inscriptions, labels, ownership history, and the strength of the attribution should be verified from the object and sale catalogues before reaching a value conclusion. The collected source pack confirms that an Appraisily auction-results page exists, but that page was not retrievable during collection; accordingly, this profile makes no claim about price levels or market trends. Historical realized prices are evidence, not guarantees of present value.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1701484
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams_(painter)
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Quincy_Adams-Barakovich.jpg
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500028219
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95855866/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85264101
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/119315122
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000117767062
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/397
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/john-quincy-adams/