# Leonard Long artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/leonard-long/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T11:48:20.840Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1911-04-25
- Death date: 2013-11-03
- Nationality: Australian
- Movements: Australian School of landscape painters
- Common media: Oil painting

## Portrait

![Leonard Long](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Leonard_Long.jpg/1280px-Leonard_Long.jpg)
Nick Thorne · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonard_Long.jpg

## About Leonard Long

Leonard Hugh Long (1911–2013) was an Australian painter associated in the collected biographical material with the Australian School of landscape painters. His public identity is well connected across authority systems: Wikidata, Getty ULAN and VIAF point to the same artist, helping distinguish him from other people named Leonard Long. The source pack consistently emphasizes landscape as the center of his practice. Australian scenery, including rivers, is the clearest documented subject area, and a collected likeness describes him specifically as a landscape artist working in oils. Collectors therefore most often encounter his name in connection with representational landscape paintings rather than a documented print, sculpture or edition practice. For cataloguing and search, the full form Leonard Hugh Long, his 1911–2013 life dates, Australian nationality and authority identifiers provide the strongest entity-matching signals. The available sources establish this identity and broad practice more securely than they establish a detailed chronology, named series or exhibition history.

## Common works and media

The collected sources consistently point to landscape painting as Long's principal work type. River views are specifically documented, while the usable portrait record describes him as a landscape artist working in oils. Auction and appraisal searches should therefore expect oil landscapes and river scenes. Other media, subjects, editions or named series should remain unverified until supported by the examined object and a reliable catalogue record.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a work aligns with Leonard Hugh Long, the Australian landscape painter identified by the authority records, rather than another person with the same name. In the collected evidence, the most defensible comparison filters are medium and subject: an oil should be compared with documented oil paintings, while river scenes should be distinguished from broader Australian landscapes. Appraisily associates this artist page with auction records, but the public page was rate-limited during research and the source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house evidence. Individual records therefore require lot-level review before interpreting sale dates or realized prices. This research supports contextual comparison, not a price forecast or a claim about market trend, rarity or demand.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525513
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500154272
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/92080804/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Long
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA
- Wikipedia: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Long
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonard_Long.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/leonard-long/