# Peter Collis artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/peter-collis/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:38:24.836Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English

## About Peter Collis

Peter Collis (1929–2012) was an English visual artist associated with landscape and still-life subjects. Public identity records distinguish him through Wikidata, Art UK, VIAF, and ISNI. The available biographical account says that he moved to Ireland and produced almost all of his work there, making Ireland an important geographic context for understanding his career. The collected sources do not identify a named movement, formal school, training history, or preferred medium, so those details should not be inferred. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name attached to landscapes or still lifes, although each object still requires an independent assessment of authorship and physical characteristics. Appraisily connects this public identity with an auction-record index, but the collected auction page did not expose lot-level details during research. The identity match is reasonably strong; richer institutional biography and catalogue evidence would improve the account of his techniques, chronology, and subjects.

## Common works and media

Available sources identify landscapes and still lifes as characteristic subjects associated with Peter Collis. They do not establish whether the works most commonly encountered at auction are paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, editions, or another medium. Each object should therefore be categorized from its physical evidence and catalogue documentation rather than from subject matter alone.

## Market and appraisal context

For Peter Collis, landscape versus still life is the only work-level distinction supported by the collected biography. The source pack does not provide enough lot evidence to determine how medium, dimensions, date, condition, provenance, or particular Irish locations relate to realized prices. Appraisily's public artist page supplies an auction-record signal, but it was rate-limited during collection, so no price range, trend, record, or category premium is stated here. An appraisal should match the exact object against verified comparable lots and confirm authorship, materials, dimensions, date, condition, and provenance from the object and relevant sale catalogues rather than infer value from the artist's name alone.

## 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. For this profile, identity and subject information are better supported than lot-level market detail.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21463562
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/collis-peter-19292012
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96675658/
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000068541752
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Collis
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/peter-collis/