# Manuel Valencia artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/manuel-valencia/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:24:10.449Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Oil on canvas

## About Manuel Valencia

Manuel Valencia (1856–1935) was an American painter identified consistently by Wikidata and VIAF, with linked records in Getty ULAN, the Library of Congress, and RKD. The collected artwork records document oil on canvas and California landscape subjects: one names Ross Valley near Mount Hamilton, while another depicts a couple beside a lake. These examples place his auction presence within regional landscape painting, but the available sources do not establish a formal movement, school, training history, or complete chronology. Collectors may encounter signed landscapes attributed to Valencia, sometimes accompanied by provenance or exhibition notes. Because the name is shared by unrelated people, entity matching should rely on life dates and authority identifiers rather than the name alone. Appraisily therefore identifies this page with the American painter born in 1856 and deceased in 1935 while leaving more specific biographical claims open pending stronger institutional documentation.

## Common works and media

The documented examples are oil-on-canvas landscape paintings. Subjects represented in the collected records include Ross Valley near Mount Hamilton, California, and a lakeside scene with a couple. Both examples are described as signed. The available evidence does not establish prints, editions, sculptures, ceramics, posters, or a named series as common parts of Valencia's auction record.

## Market and appraisal context

The available records support a cautious, object-specific appraisal approach. Relevant comparisons should account for medium, canvas dimensions, whether quoted measurements include a frame, signature and attribution, subject or named California location, provenance, and documented exhibition history. The collected examples include signed oil-on-canvas landscapes, but two artwork records are not enough to establish a general price pattern. Comparable public auction results should be matched as closely as possible by work type, size, subject, date, documentation, and sale conditions. Name-only matches require particular care because other people share the name Manuel Valencia. No unsupported price prediction or claim of market momentum should be inferred from this source pack.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Claims on this page are limited to the evidence collected for the identified American painter.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20727343
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96066489/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500057770
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2024080667
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/98233
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manuel_Valencia_-_0ee4170a92.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manuel_Valencia_-_691485b92d.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/manuel-valencia/