# Paul Schouten artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-schouten/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:19:09.035Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Belgian
- Common media: Painting

## About Paul Schouten

Paul Schouten (1868–1922) was a Belgian painter whose most clearly documented specialty in the collected sources is landscape painting. The available identity record is concise: Wikidata identifies him as a Belgian painter, while Dutch Wikipedia describes him as a landscape painter and notes that he was the half-brother of animal painter Henry Schouten. No museum biography, catalogue raisonné, or artist-foundation record was present in the collected material, so a more specific school, movement, training history, or career chronology should not be inferred. Collectors are most likely to encounter Schouten through painted landscapes and auction records attributed to his name. Appraisily currently has matched public-market records under several broad categories, although those classifications are less specific than the biographical evidence. For entity matching, his 1868–1922 lifespan, Belgian nationality, occupation as a painter, and landscape specialization are the strongest supported identifiers in this source pack.

## Common works and media

Landscape paintings are the most securely supported type of work associated with Paul Schouten in the collected identity sources. Appraisily's matched auction data also uses broad categories covering works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art or editions. Those wider labels should be treated as dataset classifications, not proof that each medium formed part of Schouten's documented practice. Attribution, signature, materials, subject, and provenance should therefore be checked for every candidate work.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with a work-to-work comparison rather than the page's overall median or observed range. Appraisily currently reports 139 records, including 110 priced records, spanning auction dates from 2008 through 2026 and an observed range from $20 to $2,500. The same page separately states 133 tracked lots, so record-count definitions should be reconciled before quantitative analysis. For a candidate work, compare medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition and restoration, signature or inscriptions, attribution confidence, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, and similar recent public sales. Edition details matter for prints or other multiples. Reported prices may treat buyer's premiums and fees differently, while private sales and incomplete feeds may be absent.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4488714
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Schouten
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-schouten/