# Max Middleton artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/max-middleton/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:26:14.948Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity



## About Max Middleton

The strongest available public identity records describe Max Middleton as a painter born in 1944. Art UK supplies the birth year, while Wikidata independently classifies him as a painter. The collected sources do not establish an exact birth date, nationality, training, movement, career chronology, or documented series, so those details should remain open rather than be inferred. This artist must also be distinguished from David Maxwell Middleton, the English keyboardist and composer who is commonly indexed under the same shortened name. Collectors may encounter works attributed to Max Middleton through public auction listings, but each record should be checked for subject, medium, signature, date, provenance, and other identity evidence. Appraisily's current index provides a substantial name-matched auction footprint, although that market record should not be treated as a substitute for a fuller scholarly biography or work-level attribution review.

## Common works and media

The available auction index includes broad classifications for paintings, works on paper, prints, sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions. The source pack does not provide enough artist-specific evidence to identify a characteristic medium, recurring subject, named series, or standard edition practice. A work presented as being by Max Middleton should therefore be assessed from its physical medium, imagery, dimensions, date, signature or inscriptions, edition markings, provenance, and relationship to securely attributed examples rather than from the name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's public index groups name-matched Max Middleton lots across fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These categories are broad and do not prove that every listed object belongs to the painter. For appraisal, the most useful comparisons are works aligned by medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, signature or inscriptions, edition status, provenance, and attribution confidence. Exhibition or catalogue references may provide additional support. Public sale dates and realized prices can help define a comparison set, but incomplete feeds, private transactions, reporting differences, and the same-name identity risk mean that individual records require review before supporting a valuation conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity matches and work-level attribution should be reviewed where namesake or evidence gaps remain.

## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/middleton-max-b-1944
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21458354
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/max-middleton/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Middleton