# Kees Verweij artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/kees-verweij/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:29:24.528Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Painting, Watercolor, Drawing

## Portrait

![Kees Verweij](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Kees_Verwey_80_jaar_in_zijn_atelier_aan_het_Spaarne_-_Anefo.jpg/1280px-Kees_Verwey_80_jaar_in_zijn_atelier_aan_het_Spaarne_-_Anefo.jpg)
Suyk, Koen / Anefo · CC0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kees_Verwey_80_jaar_in_zijn_atelier_aan_het_Spaarne_-_Anefo.jpg

## About Kees Verweij

Kees Verweij is the public-page name used here for the Dutch artist more commonly standardized by authority records as Kees Verwey (1900–1995). Wikidata identifies Verwey as a Dutch painter, while VIAF connects the Verwey and Verweij spellings and describes him as a painter and draftsman. Dutch-language biographical material also identifies watercolor and drawing as parts of his practice. Because the collected authority records converge on the same lifespan and identity, the spelling difference is best treated as an alternate-name issue, not as evidence for a separate artist. Collectors may therefore encounter his work and auction records under either spelling. The available sources support a concise picture of an artist working across painting and works on paper, but they do not establish a specific movement, school, subject specialization, or named series. Those associations should remain open until museum, estate, or scholarly catalogue evidence is added.

## Common works and media

The collected sources identify Kees Verwey, also indexed as Kees Verweij, as a painter, watercolorist, and draftsman. The supported broad work types are therefore paintings and works on paper, particularly watercolors and drawings. The source pack does not establish recurring subjects, named series, print editions, sculptures, ceramics, or posters, so those categories should not be associated with the artist without additional object-level or scholarly evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Market review should begin with identity control: a record catalogued under Kees Verwey may belong with material indexed under Kees Verweij, but spelling alone does not confirm attribution. Within the collected evidence, paintings, watercolors, and drawings are the relevant broad comparison groups. Appraisily auction records can add sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when available, but comparisons should remain within the closest supported work type and artist identity. This source pack contains no major-auction-house biography, lot descriptions, or sale-result excerpts, so it cannot support a price forecast, trend claim, scarcity statement, or medium premium. A fuller appraisal should verify the object and then test it against documented public sales rather than relying on the artist name alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For this artist, authority-file identity evidence is stronger than the collected market documentation.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1882521
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/811880/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500124983
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kees_Verwey
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kees_Verwey
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/kees-verweij/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kees_Verwey_80_jaar_in_zijn_atelier_aan_het_Spaarne_-_Anefo.jpg