# Mary Newcomb artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/mary-newcomb/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:43:37.256Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting

## About Mary Newcomb

Mary Newcomb (1922–2008) was a British painter whose identity is recorded by Wikidata and linked authority files. Tate and Art UK also maintain dedicated records under her name, providing institutional anchors for distinguishing the artist from other people called Mary Newcomb. The collected evidence securely establishes her profession, nationality, and lifespan, but it supplies little detailed biography and does not reliably identify a movement, school, named series, or recurring subject. Collectors may encounter Newcomb through paintings and associated auction listings; Appraisily’s collected signal currently connects her name with 287 auction records. Because the name is shared by several unrelated historical figures, any proposed work should be matched carefully to the painter’s authority records and to cataloguing from credible auction or institutional sources. A fuller account of her artistic development will require stronger museum, archival, gallery, or catalogue documentation than this source pack provides.

## Common works and media

The collected authority evidence supports painting as Mary Newcomb’s principal work type. It does not establish whether particular works are oils, watercolors, mixed-media paintings, drawings, prints, or another form, nor does it document recurring subjects, named series, or editions. Individual objects should therefore be described from direct examination and reliable catalogue evidence rather than assigned a more specific medium or subject from this profile alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a work is catalogued as being by the British painter Mary Newcomb rather than another person with the same name. Appraisily’s auction-record signal can support comparison by sale date and realized price when relevant records are available. The supplied source pack does not expose individual lot descriptions, attribution wording, dimensions, condition, provenance, signatures, or detailed medium information, so it cannot support a price forecast or a claim about market direction. Those object-level facts should be established before selecting comparable sales. Comparisons are most useful when the artist identification and the catalogued characteristics of the proposed work align with the public auction records being considered.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile separates established identity facts from market details that still require object-level evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17626901
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/mary-newcomb-2650
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/newcomb-mary-19222008
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500022398
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/20491918/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89620385
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Newcomb_(artist)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/mary-newcomb/