# Richard Bassett artist context and auction value notes Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/richard-bassett/ Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:32:24.843Z Quality: low confidence, insufficient sources ## Artist identity ## About Richard Bassett Richard Bassett is presently an unresolved artist identity in Appraisily's auction index. The index contains 14 name-matched auction records dated from 2015 through 2023, but the collected public sources do not provide a dependable visual-artist biography or connect those lots to a specific person. Authority searches instead surface distinct people with the same name, including an eighteenth-century Delaware politician and a modern historian and author. Neither identity is established as the creator represented by the auction records. For that reason, no birth or death dates, nationality, artistic movement, characteristic subjects, or preferred media should be assigned yet. Collectors may encounter the Richard Bassett name in auction data, but individual objects require examination of their signatures, inscriptions, provenance, catalogue descriptions, and auction-house attribution before the records can be treated as one artist's body of work. ## Common works and media The source pack does not securely establish recurring media, subjects, periods, or series for Richard Bassett. Appraisily's current page groups possible records under paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. Because the priced sample is sparse and the name match remains unresolved, these labels should be treated as broad search categories rather than a verified catalogue of one artist's practice. ## Market and appraisal context Appraisily currently reports 14 matched lots, of which four have recorded prices, across an observed 2015-2023 sale period. The displayed priced results span approximately US$125 to US$225, with a median near US$160, but the unresolved identity match and small priced sample make these figures preliminary rather than predictive. An appraisal should begin with the exact object's medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration history, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and attribution wording. Edition information matters for prints or multiples. Relevant public comparables should match the same type of object and should be compared on a consistent basis because reported auction totals may handle premiums and fees differently. ## Appraisily data basis Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when available. For Richard Bassett, the market matches remain provisional because the collected sources do not yet establish a unique artist identity. ## Sources - Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/richard-bassett/ - Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q518823 - VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/30963884/ - VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/291472006/ - IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/061282413