# Leonard Richmond artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/leonard-richmond/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:16:05.324Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Railway poster design

## About Leonard Richmond

Leonard Richmond (1889–1965) was a British painter, illustrator and author born in Somerset, England. Authority records identify him as a British painter, while biographical and image-record sources place part of his career in Canada and connect him with First World War art. Collectors may encounter his name on landscape paintings, railway imagery and railway-poster designs. Public image records include scenes of Canadian railway construction and light railway engines in France, linking his practice to transport, infrastructure and wartime subjects. His documented activity therefore crosses fine art, illustration and commercial poster work rather than belonging to a clearly established movement in this source pack. The strongest identifiers for entity matching are the 1889–1965 life years and the linked Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN and Library of Congress authority records. One Wikimedia description gives a conflicting 1878 birth year; the broader authority consensus supports 1889.

## Common works and media

The source pack documents Richmond as a painter and identifies railway posters as a notable part of his work. Recorded subjects include landscapes, Canadian railway construction in France, light railway engines and other First World War imagery. An object-level review is needed to distinguish an original painting or design from a printed poster or later reproduction.

## Market and appraisal context

Richmond’s market context should be approached by separating paintings from railway-poster material and comparing works with closely related subjects. The collected sources associate him with landscape, railway and First World War imagery, but the pack provides no individual lot descriptions or realized-price data. It therefore cannot support a price trend or value prediction. Appraisal should begin with firm identity matching, especially because one Wikimedia description conflicts with authority records on his birth year. When public auction records are available, the most relevant comparisons will be those that match the work type and subject, not merely the artist’s name.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile separates confirmed identity evidence from areas where lot-level market data remains unavailable.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21453591
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/23386469/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500014289
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50044724
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/richmond-leonard-18891965
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Richmond
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/leonard-richmond/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonard_Richmond-Canadian_Railway_Construction_in_France_(CWM_19710261-0582).jpeg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonard_Richmond-Canadian_Light_Railway_Engines_(CWM_19710261-0584).jpeg