# Levi Wells Prentice artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:43:47.200Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Hudson River School association
- Common media: Painting

## About Levi Wells Prentice

Levi Wells Prentice (1851–1935) was an American painter whose public authority records identify him consistently as an American artist and painter. Collectors most often encounter his name in connection with still-life and landscape painting, especially compositions centered on fruit. Public biographical summaries also associate him with the Hudson River School, although the collected source pack does not contain a museum or scholarly record strong enough to treat that affiliation as fully settled. His online identity is well anchored across Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, the Library of Congress authority system, and ISNI, which point to the same person and life years. For an Appraisily page, the clearest entity signals are therefore his full name, 1851–1935 dates, American identity, painter occupation, and the distinction between fruit still lifes and landscapes. Those signals help separate the artist from similarly named people and organize auction records by relevant work type.

## Common works and media

Commonly documented works are paintings in two broad groups: fruit-centered still lifes and landscapes. The source pack does not establish particular paint types, supports, print editions, sculptures, ceramics, posters, or named series, so those categories should not be attributed to Prentice without object-level evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by determining whether a record concerns a fruit still life, another still-life subject, or a landscape, because these are the work categories supported by the collected sources and they provide the safest basis for selecting comparable lots. The supplied Appraisily inventory reports 287 records, but the source pack includes no accessible major-auction-house result, catalogue entry, or lot-level evidence from which to infer a price trend. Any valuation should therefore rely on verified comparable sales for the same work type and assess attribution, medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, signature, sale date, and realized price only when those details are documented in the underlying records.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Identity evidence and market evidence are evaluated separately so biographical authority records are not treated as proof of value.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q748177
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/36792776/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500017078
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93033319
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000067058072
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Wells_Prentice
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Wells_Prentice
- Wikipedia: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/levi-wells-prentice/