# Nano Reid artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:54:07.629Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Painting, Illustration

## About Nano Reid

Nano Reid was a twentieth-century painter and illustrator whose surviving identity records connect her with landscape, figure painting, and portraiture. She died in 1981, but the collected authorities disagree about her birth year, variously giving 1900, 1905, or 1909. They also differ in nationality wording: one collected biography describes her as Irish, while the ULAN label displayed through VIAF calls her a British artist. A definitive nationality is therefore best withheld pending stronger institutional corroboration. VIAF-linked entries associate Reid with works including Canal and River in Autumn, Galway Peasant, The Lilter, Old Stables, and a portrait of the artist Patrick Hennessy. These records help distinguish her from unrelated people and organizations sharing the name Nano. Collectors may encounter her through paintings and illustrated work, as well as auction listings classified by landscape, figure, or portrait subject.

## Common works and media

The collected sources identify painting and illustration as Reid's principal work types. Documented subjects include landscapes, figures, and portraits. VIAF-linked titles provide useful identity anchors: Canal and River in Autumn and Old Stables indicate landscape or place-related work, while Portrait of Patrick Hennessy identifies portraiture. Galway Peasant and The Lilter further support an interest in human subjects. These titles should aid catalogue matching, but they do not establish a complete catalogue of the artist's work or prove the attribution of an individual object.

## Market and appraisal context

Nano Reid's market context should be assessed work by work. The collected sources support paintings, illustrations, landscapes, figure subjects, and portraits, but they do not establish reliable price bands or market trends. An appraisal should first classify the object's medium and subject and confirm that the attribution refers to this Nano Reid. Relevant public auction records can then be compared using genuinely similar work types and catalogue descriptions. The source pack includes an Appraisily auction-record signal but no detailed major-auction-house commentary, realized-price history, or individual lot documentation. Any value conclusion should therefore remain provisional until appropriate comparable sales and the specific object's documentation are reviewed.

## 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. This profile preserves unresolved identity conflicts rather than converting them into definitive facts.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16009700
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500165688
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/227422131/
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/reid-nano-19001981
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_Reid
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/nano-reid/