# Leslie Hunter artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/leslie-hunter/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:23:12.949Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Scottish
- Movements: Scottish Colourists, Post-Impressionism
- Common media: Painting, Drawing

## Portrait

![Leslie Hunter](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/GL_Hunter.jpg)
Notknown · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GL_Hunter.jpg

## About Leslie Hunter

George Leslie Hunter (1877–1931), professionally known as Leslie Hunter, was a Scottish painter associated with the Scottish Colourists and, in European-language references, Post-Impressionism. He spent a substantial early period in the United States, mainly California, before returning to Scotland in 1906. Largely self-taught, he worked in Scotland—particularly Fife and around Loch Lomond—and travelled through Europe, spending time in southern France and visiting the Netherlands, Pas-de-Calais and Italy. Public authority records and museum profiles identify him as a painter, while biographical material also records drawing. Collectors may encounter works connected with Scottish landscape and coastal settings, alongside still-life subjects such as flowers and fruit. Hunter’s place within the Scottish Colourists supplies the central art-historical context for his work, but each object still requires evidence-based attribution. Authority files identify him under George Leslie Hunter as well as the shorter professional name Leslie Hunter.

## Common works and media

Works encountered in appraisal and auction contexts may include paintings and drawings. The source pack documents Scottish settings such as Fife and Loch Lomond, the coastal work The Beach, Largo, at Low Tide, and the flower-and-fruit still life Anemones and Fruit. These examples indicate a range of landscape, coastal and still-life subjects but do not constitute a complete catalogue of Hunter’s output.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected sources establish paintings and drawings as relevant work types, but they do not include a major-auction-house essay or individual lot-level evidence. This profile therefore does not support a price trend, scarcity claim or forecast. For appraisal, records should first be separated by medium and compared with works having sufficiently similar subjects and catalog descriptions. Conclusions about attribution, condition, provenance, dimensions or precise date require evidence for the individual object. When public auction records are available, realized prices should be interpreted with their sale dates, auction houses and lot descriptions rather than treated as current price quotations.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity and market evidence are evaluated separately so that biographical context does not substitute for object-level appraisal evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q346319
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500014067
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/26017726/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/080084885
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/leslie-hunter-1327
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Hunter
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Hunter
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hunter_(Maler)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/leslie-hunter/