# Richard Austin Artlett artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T18:01:27.984Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Engraving

## About Richard Austin Artlett

Richard Austin Artlett (1807–1873) was a British engraver associated with nineteenth-century printmaking. Library and museum authority records consistently identify him, while VIAF documents the alternate form R. A. Artlett. Collected image metadata records engraved portraits credited to Artlett, including representations of George FitzClarence and George D’Oyly. Other collected examples identify him as the engraver of compositions associated with painters such as Thomas Lawrence, Alfred Edward Chalon, and William Boxall. Collectors may therefore encounter Artlett’s name in an engraver’s credit beneath a portrait or reproductive image, sometimes alongside the original painter or designer. The available sources do not establish a formal movement, detailed career chronology, or catalogue raisonné. Identification should consequently consider the complete inscription, depicted sitter or subject, credited source artist, publisher, dimensions, technique, and comparison with institutionally catalogued impressions rather than relying on the surname alone.

## Common works and media

The collected material most clearly supports engravings and other works on paper, particularly portraits made from another artist’s composition. Credits may identify the engraver as Richard Austin Artlett or R. A. Artlett while separately naming the painter or designer. The source pack does not document enough paintings, drawings, or distinct series to characterize them as common market types. Cataloguing should preserve the complete inscription and distinguish Artlett’s engraving work from the source composition and the depicted sitter.

## Market and appraisal context

Artlett’s market should be assessed at the level of the individual object rather than through a headline artist average. The collected public Appraisily page reports no matched or priced auction records, while the research input carries a substantially larger directory count; that discrepancy must be reconciled before making claims about liquidity or typical prices. Relevant comparisons should align as closely as possible on medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, attribution, inscriptions, edition information, and provenance. For reproductive engravings, the depicted sitter and credited painter or designer can also distinguish otherwise similar works. Public realized prices are most useful when the sale date, lot description, condition, and attribution are clearly documented. Inspection may still be necessary before applying those comparables to a specific impression.

## 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 Artlett, the authority evidence is stronger than the currently exposed auction dataset, so object-specific research remains essential.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/29804031/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7323832
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14968524t
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500057431
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG17714
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Austin_Artlett
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/richard-austin-artlett/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_FitzClarence,_1._Earl_of_Munster.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_D%27Oyley_Artlett.jpg