# Lemuel D. Eldred artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:20:54.568Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Etching, Oil on canvas

## About Lemuel D. Eldred

Lemuel D. Eldred is identified in the collected authority data as an American painter who died in 1921, although his birth year remains unresolved between 1848 and 1850. Available object records indicate a practice centered on maritime and coastal imagery. Examples include New Bedford dockyards with whaleships and small boats, a rocky shoreline with distant sailboats, an Assonet subject, and an etching titled Gibraltar, 1888. These records document both oil painting and etching, with signatures, titles, dates, and other inscriptions noted on several works. Collectors are therefore likely to encounter Eldred through marine paintings and graphic works connected with Massachusetts harbors, working waterfronts, vessels, and coastal scenery. No movement or school is assigned here because the collected museum and library pages did not return usable text during collection, and the available evidence does not justify a more specific classification.

## Common works and media

Available records point to marine and coastal oils as well as signed etchings. Recorded subjects include harbor activity, dockyards, whaleships, fishing figures, rowboats, sailboats, rocky shorelines, and named locations such as New Bedford, Fairhaven, Assonet, and Gibraltar. Some etchings carry both signatures and additional pencil annotations. This is a source-limited profile rather than a complete catalogue, so other subjects or media should be evaluated individually.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work associated with Lemuel D. Eldred should begin with its medium, support, dimensions, subject, signature, inscriptions, and documented history. The source pack distinguishes oils on canvas from etchings and records details such as plate and pencil signatures, dated titles, printer information, exhibition references, provenance, lining, and inpainting. For prints, the exact impression, annotations, margins, condition, and any reliable edition information should be examined. For paintings, subject, identified location, date, surface condition, restoration, and provenance may help determine which public auction records are genuinely comparable. These factors are evidence inputs rather than price guarantees. The collected sources do not provide enough accessible major-auction data to support a price trend or prediction.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42163905
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/304890320/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013069989
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/104369
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.33392.html
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lemuel_D._Eldred_-_c244f64aaa.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lemuel_D._Eldred_-_LEMUEL_D.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lemuel_D._Eldred_-_etching_titled.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lemuel_D._Eldred_-_Fairhaven,_Massachusetts_artist.jpg