# Laslett John Pott artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T17:11:55.649Z
Quality: medium confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting

## About Laslett John Pott

Laslett John Pott (1837–1898) was a British painter associated with the nineteenth-century taste for narrative historical pictures. Institutional and authority records consistently identify him as a painter, while Art UK documents works held in several British public collections. Those holdings show subjects drawn from history, literature, notable figures, and social life, including Cardinal Wolsey, Mary, Queen of Scots, Lord Byron, Miles Standish, and Wordsworth, alongside scenes such as The Dancing Lesson and The Sisters. Pott is best understood through this historical and narrative context rather than assigned to a formal movement, which the collected sources do not establish. Collectors may encounter his paintings and other attributed lots under his full name or abbreviated forms such as Laslett J. Pott. Public-collection records, authority identifiers, and matched auction data together help distinguish him from similarly named makers and place individual works within his documented subject range.

## Common works and media

Pott is principally documented as a painter of historical and narrative subjects. Public-collection titles include episodes involving Cardinal Wolsey and Mary, Queen of Scots; literary or cultural figures such as Lord Byron and Wordsworth; and social or domestic compositions such as The Dancing Lesson and The Sisters. Portrait-like representations and copies after earlier portraits may also appear. Appraisily's matched records contain broader labels for works on paper, prints, mixed media, sculpture, decorative art, and editions, but these categories are less securely characteristic of Pott's documented practice and should be verified against each lot's description, images, medium, signature, and attribution.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched public auction dataset reports 79 records for Laslett John Pott, including 30 priced records, with an observed range of $60 to $16,000 and a median realized result around $875 as of the source snapshot. These figures describe recorded sales, not a prediction for another work. Useful comparisons should align medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, provenance, and attribution confidence. Signatures and inscriptions can assist identification but should be assessed with the work itself. Historical subject matter and documented relationships to public-collection works may also affect comparability. Because the current category summary is broad, appraisal research should inspect individual lot descriptions, images, fees, and sale dates rather than treating every matched record as equivalent.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity records with matched public auction records and auction-house context. When available, sale dates, realized prices, images, and comparable lots are used to support appraisal research; private sales, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may not be represented.

## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/pott-laslett-john-18371898
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95823775/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18519956
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG42487
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500023122
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laslett_John_Pott
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/laslett-john-pott/