# Lodewijk Johannes Kleijn artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/lodewijk-johannes-kleijn/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:43:27.696Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Oil painting, Watercolor, Lithography

## About Lodewijk Johannes Kleijn

Lodewijk Johannes Kleijn (1817–1897) was a Dutch painter identified in the available sources as a landscape specialist. The Dutch-language biography describes his practice across oil paint, watercolor, and lithography, while the German-language biography characterizes him specifically as a landscape painter. These references place him within nineteenth-century Dutch landscape practice, but the collected material does not support assigning him to a more specific movement or school. Collectors may encounter his name on oil landscapes, watercolors, works on paper, and lithographic impressions rather than within a documented named series. Stable authority identifiers in Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, GND, RKD, and Art UK help distinguish this artist from similarly named makers and support entity matching across catalogues. The present source pack is strongest on identity, lifespan, nationality, and media; it is comparatively thin on training, exhibitions, institutional holdings, chronology, and named bodies of work.

## Common works and media

Commonly encountered categories supported by the source pack are oil landscapes, watercolor landscapes, and lithographic works. The sources do not identify named series, edition structures, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or other recurring subjects, so those categories should not be added without further evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, works attributed to Kleijn can be grouped by the documented media—oil, watercolor, and lithography—and by the documented landscape focus. Comparisons should therefore separate paintings, watercolors, and lithographic works rather than treating all auction appearances as equivalent. Appraisily's artist-page input indicates an auction-record corpus associated with this name, but the collected page response did not expose individual lots, sale dates, realized prices, auction houses, or object-level descriptions. The current evidence supports identifying relevant work categories and locating comparable records; it does not support a price prediction, rarity claim, or market trend. Object-specific conclusions require verified details and closely matched public sale records.

## 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. For Kleijn, the current source pack supports identity and work-category context more strongly than lot-level market analysis.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21289398
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodewijk_Johannes_Kleijn
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodewijk_Johannes_Kleijn
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500007479
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95726489/
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1209570238
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/44652
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/kleijn-lodewijk-johannes-18171897
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/lodewijk-johannes-kleijn/