# Robert MacGregor artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:27:18.192Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Scottish
- Common media: Painting, Landscape painting, Genre painting, Portrait painting, Marine painting

## About Robert MacGregor

Robert MacGregor is the public-page spelling used for the Scottish painter more commonly identified by authority sources as Robert McGregor (1847–1922). His documented practice encompasses landscape, genre, portrait, and marine painting. Public-collection records show a particular interest in working life and coastal communities: titles include Breadwinners, Fisherfolk, The Knife Grinder, and a portrait of the art dealer Aitken Dott. He also depicted rural and coastal settings beyond Scotland, including Villerville in France. These subjects place people, occupations, and local environments at the center of his surviving work, although the collected sources do not establish a specific formal movement or school. Collectors may encounter his paintings through British and Scottish art sales, especially under the McGregor spelling. Because Robert MacGregor is also used in auction records, identity, signature, subject, date, and provenance should be checked before a lot is connected to this artist.

## Common works and media

The documented body of work is centered on paintings. Recurring subjects include fishermen and coastal communities, farm and rural workers, character studies, portraits, and country or shoreline scenery associated with Scotland, France, and the Netherlands. Institutional records support genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes; the source pack provides much less reliable evidence for prints, editions, sculpture, or decorative objects attributed to this name.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched market index contains public auction records under both Robert MacGregor and Robert McGregor, but those name matches should be reviewed for identity consistency. For an individual painting, the most useful comparisons share the same medium, approximate dimensions, subject, execution period, condition, and attribution status. Provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, signatures, inscriptions, and restoration can also affect how closely one result compares with another. Realized prices should be compared on the same fee basis because published totals do not always treat buyer premiums consistently. Public sales offer evidence for an appraisal, but they do not capture every private transaction and cannot replace inspection, authentication, or a condition assessment.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity records with matched public auction data. When available, the evidence includes auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, images, and comparable lots; private sales, incomplete feeds, spelling variants, and later attribution changes may not be represented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7347532
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500023294
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/38702189/
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/mcgregor-robert-18471922
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McGregor_(painter)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-macgregor/