# Michael Richard Ladd Canney artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/michael-richard-ladd-canney/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:10:56.870Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British

## About Michael Richard Ladd Canney

Michael Richard Ladd Canney (1923–1999), also catalogued as Michael Canney, was a British artist. The strongest identity evidence in the available public source pack comes from VIAF, supported by canonical Getty ULAN, Wikidata, and Art UK records. These sources establish his identity and life years, but the collected material does not document a movement, recurring medium, characteristic subject, training, exhibitions, or named series. Collectors may encounter the name in auction-record databases, where careful entity matching matters because abbreviated cataloguing can appear under Michael Canney. Appraisily therefore connects the public artist page with stable authority identifiers while avoiding unsupported stylistic claims. For appraisal purposes, a work should be assessed from its individual cataloguing and physical evidence rather than from the artist name alone. Additional museum, archival, or catalogue research would be needed to provide a fuller art-historical account with confidence.

## Common works and media

The collected sources do not establish which media, subjects, formats, editions, or series commonly appear under Michael Canney's name. Individual works should therefore be described from their own physical characteristics, signatures, inscriptions, provenance, and auction cataloguing rather than assigned to an unsupported category.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily signal indicates that auction records are associated with this artist page, but the collected source pack does not provide readable lot-level evidence or a major-auction-house biography. Market interpretation should therefore remain conservative. First confirm that a record belongs to the same person by matching the full name, alternate name, and authority identifiers. Then review comparable public lots, sale dates, and realized prices in the underlying auction data when available. The pack does not support a price trend, preferred medium, premium for any subject or period, or rarity claim. Those conclusions require inspection of individual auction records and their cataloguing.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For this artist, authority-file identification is stronger than the currently collected art-historical and lot-level evidence.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/2435792/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21459023
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500188435
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/canney-michael-richard-ladd-19231999
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/michael-richard-ladd-canney/