# Peter Barrett artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/peter-barrett/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:30:14.916Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Illustration, Painting, Postage-stamp design

## About Peter Barrett

Peter Barrett is a British illustrator and painter born in 1935. Getty, VIAF, IdRef, and Wikidata authority records connect his name with visual art and published illustration, while bibliographic records document numerous illustrator credits. His recorded subjects include horses, insects, prehistoric mammals, and dogs. One particularly identifiable commission was a 1979 set of United Kingdom postage stamps depicting dogs, for which he supplied the designs and artwork. Collectors may therefore encounter Barrett’s name in connection with animal illustration, published-book material, stamp-related designs, and works described more broadly as paintings. Because Peter Barrett is a common name and the collected authority links include more than one Library of Congress identifier, attribution should be matched carefully to the object’s date, medium, publication history, inscriptions, and documentation. The available source pack does not establish an associated art movement, a complete exhibition history, or a catalogue raisonné.

## Common works and media

The source pack most clearly supports illustration and painting. Bibliographic records associate Barrett with illustrated books about horses, insects, prehistoric mammals, and related natural-history subjects, while a separate source records his 1979 dog postage-stamp designs. Appraisal candidates may therefore include original illustrations, animal studies, paintings, published illustration material, and stamp-related designs. The collected evidence does not establish particular painting techniques, edition sizes, or a definitive catalogue of works, so those details must be determined from the object and its documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily signal reports 257 auction-directory records under the name Peter Barrett, but that count should not be interpreted as 257 securely identified works by this particular illustrator. Appraisal should begin by confirming that the work matches the British artist born in 1935. A documented relationship to one of Barrett’s illustrated publications or his 1979 dog stamp commission may strengthen that match. Relevant comparisons should be restricted to records with compatible authorship, work type, subject, and documentation. The current source pack contains no detailed major-auction-house results, so it cannot support price forecasts, market trends, or claims about scarcity.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. For Peter Barrett, the present evidence supports the identity outline more strongly than detailed market conclusions.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/112750661/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/131063995
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1434169
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500199289
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12588002k
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Barrett_(illustrator)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/peter-barrett/