# Richard Evett Bishop artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/richard-evett-bishop/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:52:59.645Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## About Richard Evett Bishop

Richard Evett Bishop (1887–1975) was an American painter whose identity is represented in Wikidata and linked to Getty ULAN, VIAF, Library of Congress, ISNI, National Gallery of Art, and Art UK records. A biographical summary places his birth in Syracuse, New York, and reports that his work appeared in the painting event of the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. The available source pack does not establish a specific movement, school, subject specialty, or detailed medium beyond painting, so those associations should not be inferred. Collectors may encounter Bishop's work through public auction records and institutional artist indexes. Cataloging should use his full name and life years to distinguish him from other artists named Richard Bishop, especially when evaluating older descriptions, incomplete signatures, or uncertain attributions.

## Common works and media

The collected identity sources establish Bishop as a painter, making paintings the only supported general work category. They do not identify recurring subjects, named series, print editions, sculpture, drawings, or specific painting media. Any such classification should be based on inspection of the object and reliable catalog or provenance evidence rather than assumed from the artist's name.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a work is attributable to Richard Evett Bishop, using his full name, 1887–1975 life dates, and linked authority records to avoid confusion with similarly named artists. The supplied Appraisily input associates the page with 280 records, but the collected page response was rate-limited and supplied no lot-level evidence. No price range or market trend can therefore be supported from this source pack alone. For an individual work, appraisal research should document its medium, dimensions, date, subject, signature or inscriptions, condition, provenance, and any exhibition or publication history, then compare it with genuinely similar public auction lots when suitable records are available.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52156600
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500043514
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.3532.html
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/bishop-richard-evett-18871975
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/18665636/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85221491
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000078897293
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bishop_(painter)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/richard-evett-bishop/