# Ken Howard artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T11:05:54.318Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: painting, watercolor

## Portrait

![Ken Howard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Howard-Ken-Sarah.jpg)
Ken Howard (artist) · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Howard_(artist)

## About Ken Howard

Ken Howard (1932–2022) was a British artist and painter whose career connected studio practice, exhibition work, and the institutional life of British art. He was appointed OBE, became a Royal Academician, and served as President of the New English Art Club from 1998 to 2003. Library and authority records identify him as an English or British painter and artist, while published references associated with his name include work concerning Venice in watercolor and an autobiography. His public profile therefore spans painting, watercolor, authorship, and professional recognition. Collectors may encounter Ken Howard works through paintings, works on paper, prints, editions, and other objects attributed to the artist. Identification should rely on the name, medium, date, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and any supporting catalogue or exhibition history. These details help distinguish comparable works within the artist's broader auction record.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include Ken Howard paintings, watercolors, works on paper, prints, editions, sculpture, mixed-media objects, and decorative-art pieces. A work's medium and format should be confirmed from the object itself and its documentation. For paintings and watercolors, visual subject, dimensions, date, signature, condition, and provenance are especially useful comparison fields. Prints and editions require attention to edition details, while sculpture, mixed media, and decorative objects require object-specific material and attribution review.

## Market and appraisal context

Ken Howard auction records on Appraisily include fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. Appraisal depends on the specific object rather than the artist name alone: medium, size, date, career period, condition, restoration history, surface quality, signature, inscriptions, edition details, attribution confidence, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, subject matter, and comparable public sales can all matter. Appraisily reports a broad observed public-auction range, but auction totals may be reported with different fee conventions. Public records are a starting point, and private sales, incomplete feeds, authentication issues, or changes in attribution may not be represented.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6387832
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/11417266/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500029106
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/135255465
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Howard_(artist)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ken-howard/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/204965
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12241991g