# Neil Shawcross artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:20:28.889Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Drawing and works on paper, Printmaking, Stained-glass design

## About Neil Shawcross

Neil Shawcross is a British artist born in 1940 in Kearsley, Lancashire, England. He has lived in Northern Ireland since 1962 and is best known as a portrait painter. His documented sitters include poet Seamus Heaney, novelist Francis Stuart, Belfast civic figure David Cook, footballer Derek Dougan, and fellow artists Colin Middleton and Terry Frost. Alongside portraiture, Shawcross has worked with the human figure and still life, using direct, simplified compositions and assertive color. His broader practice encompasses printmaking, drawing, and design; documented commissions include stained glass for the Ulster Museum and St Colman's Church in Lambeg, County Antrim. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on painted portraits and still lifes, works on paper, prints, or design-related material rather than within a single medium. Wikidata, Getty ULAN, and VIAF provide stable authority links that help distinguish the artist from people with similar names.

## Common works and media

Shawcross is principally associated with painted portraits, including likenesses of writers, civic figures, athletes, and other artists. His documented practice also includes figure painting, still life, drawing, printmaking, and stained-glass design. In appraisal settings, a possible Shawcross work may therefore appear as a painting, work on paper, or print. The available source pack does not establish how frequently each category appears at auction, so the medium, subject, and authorship of an individual object should be verified before selecting comparables.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a Neil Shawcross work should begin by identifying its medium and subject. Paintings, drawings, and prints should be compared within their respective categories, while a portrait may require research into the sitter as well as the work itself. Public auction records can provide useful comparables when the lots share meaningful characteristics, but this source pack does not expose individual sale descriptions, realized prices, dimensions, condition, provenance, or edition information. It therefore does not support a price trend or value prediction. A defensible appraisal would need object-specific examination and relevant, verified sale records rather than relying on the artist name alone.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15454640
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96679648/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500185344
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Shawcross
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/neil-shawcross/