# Peter Coker artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/peter-coker/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:57:07.585Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Etching

## About Peter Coker

Peter Coker (1926–2004) was a British painter and etcher. The collected authority record identifies him in those terms, while dedicated records from Tate, Art UK, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress help distinguish this artist from people with similar names. The available source material does not establish a specific movement, named series, or recurring subject with enough evidence to publish as fact. Collectors may encounter Coker through paintings and etchings, the two media directly supported by the authority data, as well as through public auction records aggregated on Appraisily. Because several institutional pages could not be fully retrieved during source collection, this profile avoids unsupported claims about his training, exhibitions, stylistic development, or particular bodies of work. Those areas require further museum, archival, or catalogue research. The present profile supports reliable entity matching and basic auction-page context but should not be treated as a complete scholarly biography.

## Common works and media

The collected authority data directly supports two common work types: paintings and etchings. It does not provide enough evidence to identify recurring subjects, named series, edition practices, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or other media. Objects outside the supported painting and etching categories require additional attribution research before being connected confidently with Peter Coker.

## Market and appraisal context

Medium is the clearest valuation dimension supported by the collected sources: paintings and etchings should be researched as distinct work types rather than compared indiscriminately. Appraisily's artist page indicates that public auction-price records are associated with Peter Coker, but the source pack does not expose individual lot details or results. A work-specific appraisal should therefore use comparable records from the same medium and consider the recorded sale date and realized price where available. The present evidence does not support a prediction about price direction, scarcity, or demand, and it does not establish how condition, dimensions, provenance, or particular subjects affect this artist's market.

## 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. Gaps in the collected evidence are retained rather than filled with unsupported claims.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18819767
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/peter-coker-926
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/coker-peter-19262004
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500001322
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/76589700/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr95033408
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/peter-coker/