# Robert Gallon artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:55:27.983Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting

## About Robert Gallon

Robert Gallon (1845–1925) is identified as a British painter, with public identity records linking him to Getty ULAN, VIAF, RKD, the British Museum, and Art UK. The works represented in the collected source material are landscapes: cottages within broad countryside, cattle watering in Highland scenery, an evening landscape, and named views around Betws-y-Coed and Orkney. These records point to a practice centered on rural, pastoral, and regional scenery, but they do not establish an association with a particular movement or formal school. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Gallon through landscape paintings, especially cottage scenes, pastoral subjects, and views connected with identifiable places. Appraisily also groups auction-price records catalogued under his name. Because the available source material supplies authority identifiers and representative works but little detailed biography, claims about Gallon’s training, exhibitions, exact birth and death dates, or artistic affiliations require further institutional documentation.

## Common works and media

Works represented in the source material are paintings of rural landscapes, including cottages, extensive countryside, cattle in pastoral or Highland settings, evening scenery, and named regional views around Betws-y-Coed and Orkney. The pack does not establish a documented print practice, sculpture practice, formal series, or preferred painting medium such as oil or watercolor, so those classifications should be confirmed work by work.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal, the safest comparison set is formed from public auction records catalogued under Robert Gallon and narrowed to landscape paintings with closely related subjects or depicted locations. Cottage scenes, pastoral cattle subjects, Highland scenery, evening landscapes, and named regional views should not automatically be treated as interchangeable. Sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots can add context when detailed records are available, but the collected source excerpts do not expose lot-level dimensions, condition, provenance, inscriptions, or precise attribution wording. Those details should be verified from the original auction catalogue and, where possible, the physical work before drawing a value conclusion. The present evidence does not support a price prediction or a claim about market direction.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity records with auction data, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21453174
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500000330
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/206626734/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/30090
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG28316
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/gallon-robert-18451925
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-gallon/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RobertGallon-OldCottageNear-Betws-y-coed.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cattle_watering_in_a_highland_landscape_2000_CSK_08641_0047_000(124331).jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cottages_in_an_extensive_landscape_2000_CSK_08692_0122_000(124850).jpg