# Pieter Cornelis Dommershuijzen artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/pieter-cornelis-dommershuijzen/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:28:47.937Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Painting, Watercolour

## About Pieter Cornelis Dommershuijzen

Pieter Cornelis Dommershuijzen, also recorded as Pieter Cornelis Dommersen and born with the surname Dommershuisen, was a Dutch painter and watercolourist active in England. Available public references describe him principally as a marine painter, while also noting city views among his subjects. Collectors and cataloguers may encounter substantial variation in his recorded name: cited signature forms include P. C. Dommersen, P. C. Dommershuisen, and P. C. Dommershuizen. These variants help explain why works and reference records may be distributed across several spellings of the same artist's identity. In auction and appraisal contexts, his name is most likely to appear with paintings or watercolours depicting maritime and urban scenery. The collected evidence supports these broad identity, medium, and subject associations, but it does not yet justify assigning a specific artistic movement or giving precise birth and death dates beyond the institutionally indexed years 1834–1908.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under this artist's names are chiefly paintings and watercolours. Public descriptions associate him most clearly with marine views and also with city views. Because records may use Dommersen, Dommershuisen, Dommershuizen, or Dommershuijzen, searches and appraisal comparisons should account for each documented spelling rather than assuming they represent different artists.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal begins by reconciling the artist's name and signature with the documented Dommersen, Dommershuisen, Dommershuizen, and Dommershuijzen variants. Medium and subject also matter when selecting comparisons: a watercolour should not be treated as equivalent to an oil painting, and marine scenes should be compared with appropriately similar maritime works rather than unrelated city views. Relevant public auction records can add context through catalogue descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition, provenance, and comparable lots when those details are available. The present source pack confirms an auction-record signal but does not expose enough lot-level evidence to support a price prediction or market trend claim.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Conclusions should remain limited to evidence that can be tied to stable public sources and relevant sale records.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3023287
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/dommershuijzen-pieter-cornelis-18341908
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500022810
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95821766/
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1270411071
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/23631
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Cornelis_Dommersen
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Cornelis_Dommersen
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Cornelis_Dommersen
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/pieter-cornelis-dommershuijzen/