# Orlando Norie artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/orlando-norie/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:54:31.126Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1832-01-15
- Nationality: British
- Common media: Watercolor

## About Orlando Norie

Orlando Norie (1832–1901) was a British artist known for military subjects, particularly scenes associated with the British Army. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty align on his identity and life years. A secondary biographical account places his birth in Bruges, Belgium, on 15 January 1832 and says that he spent much of his working life in Dunkirk. Norie is most closely associated with watercolor and the visual culture of nineteenth-century military art. The same account describes an unusually large output, although its estimate of more than 5,000 pictures should be treated as secondary-source context rather than a catalogue-raisonné total. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on military watercolors offered through varied auction channels. For dependable entity matching, Norie's life dates and established authority identifiers provide stronger anchors than an attribution based only on subject or style.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter watercolors depicting military subjects, especially scenes connected with the British Army. The available source pack does not establish a complete catalogue of Norie's work or independently document recurring print, oil-painting, sculpture, or edition categories, so those formats should not be assumed without object-specific evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Norie's market context should be assessed through closely comparable military watercolors rather than through broad artist-level assumptions. Relevant comparisons begin with the medium, the specific military subject, the strength of attribution, and the date and documentation attached to the work. Appraisily's artist page is associated with a substantial auction-record set, but the collected research pack does not provide major-auction-house commentary or lot-level evidence from which to infer a price range or trend. Any appraisal should therefore examine the object directly and use comparable public sales only after checking attribution, condition, dimensions, inscriptions, provenance, sale date, and whether the reported result and work type are genuinely comparable.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Authority identifiers and public sources help distinguish the artist from similarly named people.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7103146
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/52745482/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500112782
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Norie
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/orlando-norie/