# Mark William Langlois artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:11:21.811Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Oil painting, Oil on canvas, Oil on board

## About Mark William Langlois

Mark William Langlois (1848–1924) was a British painter. The available public identity records establish his name, life years, nationality, and occupation, while collected auction-image records show works executed in oil on canvas and oil on board. Examples titled Feeding the Chicks, The Lesson, and Children with a Shoemaker indicate an interest in children, learning, work, and everyday domestic activity. Collectors are therefore likely to encounter Langlois through signed figurative or genre-scene paintings rather than through a documented modern movement or named series. This source set does not establish his training, exhibition history, residences, or institutional chronology, and those details should not be inferred. Reliable entity matching should use his full name, 1848–1924 life dates, British painter description, reported signature, medium, support, dimensions, subject, and condition together.

## Common works and media

The collected examples are figurative oil paintings on canvas or board. Their titles and descriptions feature children in domestic, educational, and working scenes, including feeding chicks, taking a lesson, and visiting a shoemaker. Auction or appraisal records may describe these broadly as oil paintings, figurative paintings, or genre scenes. Reported signatures often appear in the lower-right area, but any signature should be examined with the rest of the object rather than treated as independent proof of authorship.

## Market and appraisal context

A Langlois appraisal should begin with the physical work: medium and support, dimensions, subject, signature, condition, and evidence of restoration. Collected lot metadata records both canvas and board supports and mentions signatures, craquelure, paint loss, inpainting, restoration, and frame wear. These details can materially affect how closely one work compares with another. Documented provenance and a clear attribution history should also be considered. Public auction records are most useful when comparisons match the work type, subject, size, support, condition, sale date, and attribution. The supplied evidence contains no realized-price details, so it does not justify a price forecast or market-trend claim.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When available, sale dates, realized prices, condition details, attribution, and comparable lots are used to support object-specific appraisal research.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21457088
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/langlois-mark-william-18481924
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/mark-william-langlois/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_William_Langlois_-_Mark_William_Langlois_(UK,_1848-1924)_Medium_Oil_on_canvas_Signature(s).jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_William_Langlois_-_Oil_On_Canvas_painting_Signed.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_William_Langlois_-_673480bbd8.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_William_Langlois_-_Titled_The_Lesson.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_William_Langlois_-_%27Children_with_a_shoemaker%27_oil_on_canvas.jpg