# Robert Pilot artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-pilot/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:03:13.813Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian
- Common media: Oil on canvas or panel, Etching, Mural painting, Book illustration

## About Robert Pilot

Robert Pilot (1898–1967), also recorded as Robert Wakeham Pilot, was a Canadian painter whose practice included etching, mural work, and book illustration. The collected biographical sources particularly associate him with atmospheric Quebec landscapes and the changing light of twilight. They also place his work in the later development of Canadian Impressionism, although the available source pack does not include a museum or scholarly movement classification. Collectors may encounter oil paintings on canvas or panel, etchings, and less frequently material connected with murals or illustration. Location, season, light, and date are useful points of comparison for his landscape work. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and the Library of Congress help distinguish Pilot and his works from similarly named people. The present evidence is strongest for identity and general working media, while a fuller account of his training, exhibitions, chronology, and documented body of work would require additional institutional or catalogue research.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Robert Pilot include oil paintings on canvas or panel, especially atmospheric landscapes connected with Quebec, as well as etchings. The collected biography also records mural and book-illustration activity. In appraisal contexts, paintings and works on paper should be separated by medium, support, dimensions, date, condition, subject, and attribution status; edition and impression details should be recorded when evaluating an etching.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's currently published market page contains only two matched, priced auction records dated from 2022 through 2025, with an observed range of $800 to $3,300. That sample is too small for a broad price conclusion. An appraisal should begin with genuinely comparable works of the same medium, dimensions, date or career period, subject, and attribution level. Condition, restoration, surface quality, signature or inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references can materially affect comparability. Edition information is also important for prints. Reported auction totals may not use consistent fee treatment, while private sales and incomplete feeds may be absent. Public records should therefore be treated as an initial market signal, followed by object-specific examination and carefully selected like-for-like sales.

## 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 those records are available. The current Robert Pilot market sample is limited and should be supplemented with object-specific research.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21064769
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/11250954/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500031702
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84129166
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pilot
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pilot
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-pilot/