# Peter Smales artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/peter-smales/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:27:24.410Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity



## About Peter Smales

Peter Smales is the name under which Appraisily groups a set of public auction records, but the collected sources do not yet establish a reliable biography for the artist. No museum profile, artist estate, official site, scholarly catalogue, or clearly matched library authority record was available in the source pack. A Wikidata result bearing the same name refers only to a peerage identifier and does not demonstrate that its subject is the artist represented by the auction records. Consequently, birth and death dates, nationality, training, movements, career periods, and characteristic subjects remain unconfirmed. Collectors may encounter the name on auction listings spanning several broad categories, but those name matches should be checked against signatures, inscriptions, provenance, medium, dimensions, dates, and images before separate identities or unrelated makers are combined.

## Common works and media

The available auction index places Peter Smales listings within broad categories covering paintings and other fine art, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art or editions. These categories are not supported by an independent catalogue of the artist's work, so they should be treated as search and comparison groupings rather than a confirmed description of the artist's oeuvre. Each prospective match should be evaluated from the individual lot description, medium, dimensions, signature or inscriptions, edition information, subject, date, provenance, condition, and accompanying images.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily page covers matched auction records dated from 2014 through 2025 and identifies 61 priced records within a larger 94-record set. Those observations can help frame comparisons, but the page also gives a separate count of 58 tracked lots, so its totals should be reconciled before statistical conclusions are made. For appraisal, compare works by medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, signature, inscriptions, edition details, provenance, and attribution confidence. Public realized prices are most useful when the comparable lots share these characteristics. Reporting conventions may differ on buyer premiums and fees, while private sales, incomplete feeds, and revised attributions may be absent.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Peter Smales, identity evidence remains limited, so market records require careful name and attribution review.

## Sources

- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/peter-smales/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75832886
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smales_-_geograph.org.uk_-_508024.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smales_-_geograph.org.uk_-_508032.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smales_Burn_-_geograph.org.uk_-_508056.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smales_Burn_-_geograph.org.uk_-_508073.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smales_-_geograph.org.uk_-_692145.jpg