# Ken Hamilton artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/ken-hamilton/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:04:50.615Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints, Sculpture and mixed media, Decorative art and editions

## About Ken Hamilton

Ken Hamilton is a painter born in 1956, identified by Wikidata and indexed by Art UK as Hamilton, Ken, b.1956. The available institutional record establishes a basic identity but does not document his nationality, education, movement, stylistic development, or named bodies of work. Collectors may encounter the name through paintings and through auction listings assigned to broader categories, including works on paper, prints, sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions. Those category labels should be treated as record classifications rather than a definitive catalogue of Hamilton's practice. Appraisily's current public page reports matched auction activity from 2003 to 2026, but the common name makes artist-level matching especially important before drawing conclusions. Signatures, dates, inscriptions, provenance, and comparison with securely identified works are therefore central to separating this artist's work from objects by other people named Ken Hamilton.

## Common works and media

The collected auction data places Ken Hamilton most often within fine art and painting, while also assigning records to works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. The source pack does not provide enough object-level evidence to confirm that every category represents an established part of the painter's oeuvre. For appraisal purposes, determine the actual medium, support, dimensions, date, signature or inscription, edition status, and provenance of the object before selecting comparable lots.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's public market index reports 143 matched records, including 78 priced records, across auction dates from 2003 to 2026. It gives an observed range of $80 to $14,000 and a median realized result near $1,900. These figures describe the collected records rather than a forecast for an individual object. A useful appraisal comparison should align medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, provenance, attribution confidence, and, where relevant, edition information. Because Ken Hamilton is a potentially ambiguous name and the source pack contains only limited biographical evidence, each comparable should also be checked for identity consistency. Buyer-premium treatment, restoration, incomplete auction feeds, and later attribution changes may further limit direct price comparisons.

## 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. Name matches and broad category labels require object-level verification.

## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/hamilton-ken-b-1956
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21466788
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ken-hamilton/