# Mortimer Menpes artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/mortimer-menpes/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:23:08.995Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian, British
- Common media: Painting, Etching and printmaking, Illustration

## Portrait

![Mortimer Menpes](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Mortimer_Menpes%2C_Self-Portrait%2C_1916-1917%2C_NGA_70353.jpg/1280px-Mortimer_Menpes%2C_Self-Portrait%2C_1916-1917%2C_NGA_70353.jpg)
Mortimer Menpes · CC0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mortimer_Menpes,_Self-Portrait,_1916-1917,_NGA_70353.jpg

## About Mortimer Menpes

Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855–1938) was an Australian-born British-Australian painter, etcher, printmaker, illustrator, and author. Wikidata and VIAF identify the same person across these roles, while Getty ULAN provides a stable art-historical authority record. His documented practice spans fine art, printmaking, book illustration, and writing rather than a single medium. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings, etched or printed works, illustrations, and publications, with format and technique central to correct identification. The supplied evidence establishes his life years and professional range but does not provide institution-grade support for assigning him to a specific movement or school, so none is asserted here. This breadth helps explain why material associated with Menpes appears in varied cataloguing contexts and why an appraisal should distinguish carefully among original paintings, prints, illustrated works, and authored publications.

## Common works and media

Menpes’s documented roles indicate a body of work that may include paintings, etchings and other prints, and illustrations or related works on paper. His activity as an author also means collectors may encounter publications bearing his name. The source pack does not establish particular subjects, named series, edition sizes, or a definitive catalogue of works, so those details should be verified for each object.

## Market and appraisal context

Market assessment begins with identifying what kind of object is being examined. Menpes is documented as a painter, etcher, printmaker, and illustrator, so a painting should not be compared indiscriminately with an etching, another type of print, or an illustration. An appraisal should record the physical medium, technique, dimensions, inscriptions, and condition before selecting comparable public sales of the same general work type. The collected research pack does not include sale-level auction-house evidence, edition information, or a documented price history. Accordingly, this profile makes no prediction about value, scarcity, or market direction; those conclusions require object-specific evidence and suitably matched auction records.

## 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. Identity evidence and market evidence are evaluated separately so that biographical matching does not by itself imply attribution or value.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6914744
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/5877622/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500015549
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Menpes