# Robert Polhill Bevan artist context and auction value notes

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Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1865-08-05
- Death date: 1925-07-08
- Nationality: British
- Movements: Camden Town Group, London Group, Cumberland Market Group
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Lithography

## Portrait

![Robert Polhill Bevan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Robert-polhill-bevan.jpg)
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## About Robert Polhill Bevan

Robert Polhill Bevan (1865–1925) was a British painter, draughtsman, and lithographer associated with several important artist-led groups in early twentieth-century London. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group. These affiliations place him within the networks through which modern British artists exhibited and developed audiences outside more traditional institutional structures. Authority records identify him both as Robert Bevan and Robert Polhill Bevan, an important distinction when matching collection, library, and auction records. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings, drawings, lithographs, and other works on paper. Because his practice crossed multiple media, a reliable assessment begins by determining the type of object and confirming that its attribution corresponds with established authority records. His representation in museum, national-library, and art-historical databases gives researchers several stable identity references for separating his work from similarly named artists.

## Common works and media

The available identity sources describe Bevan as a painter, draughtsman, and lithographer. Objects encountered in auction or appraisal settings may therefore include paintings, drawings, lithographs, and related works on paper. The source pack does not establish a sufficiently detailed subject catalogue, edition history, or named series, so individual works should be described from direct examination rather than assigned to an unsupported category.

## Market and appraisal context

Works attributed to Robert Polhill Bevan may appear in painting, drawing, lithograph, and broader works-on-paper categories. Appraisal should begin with the object itself: medium, dimensions, technique, inscriptions, labels, physical condition, and documented ownership history. Attribution is especially important, and the artist's full name should be checked against established authority records and relevant cataloguing. Once the object has been classified, comparable public auction records should be selected by work type, date, scale, subject, condition, and strength of attribution where those details are available. Realized prices and sale dates can provide market context, but an artist-level result count or an isolated sale does not establish the value of a particular work.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2363100
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/47860281/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500002362
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bevan_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bevan
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/robert-bevan-748
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-polhill-bevan/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert-polhill-bevan.jpg