# Robert Taylor Carson artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:58:01.427Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity



## About Robert Taylor Carson

Robert Taylor Carson (1919–2008) is documented by Art UK and international authority records, although the available source material provides only limited biographical detail. His clearest institutional context is portraiture. Art UK records works depicting civic, academic, and religious figures, including Belfast lord mayors, Professor Sir Douglas Lloyd Savory, and Rabbi Shachter. Documented holdings include Queen's University Belfast, Belfast City Hall, and the Ulster Museum. These records indicate sustained engagement with formal portrait subjects and public or institutional commissions. Collectors may also encounter Carson through the secondary market: Appraisily currently associates his name with public auction records dating from 2002 to 2024. Because the collected sources do not establish a specific nationality, movement, training history, or complete catalogue of works, those details should not be inferred from the Belfast subjects and collections alone.

## Common works and media

The strongest institutional evidence concerns portraits, particularly formal depictions of civic officeholders, academics, and religious figures. Auction data also places works associated with Carson in broad fine-art categories, including paintings and works on paper, while sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions appear as lower-confidence category signals. A prospective appraisal should identify the actual medium and support directly rather than assuming them from the artist's name or subject.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by comparing a Carson work with records that match its medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and attribution status. Signature and inscription evidence, restoration history, provenance, exhibition references, and any catalogue documentation can sharpen that comparison. Public auction results provide useful context, but they do not cover private sales and may report buyer's premiums or fees inconsistently. Appraisily's current index contains 33 matched records, of which 24 have recorded prices, across a 2002–2024 sale-date range. The dataset is useful for locating comparables, but its breadth does not establish authenticity, a guaranteed selling price, or a complete market history for every category of work attributed to Carson.

## 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. Gaps in public biography, private-sale data, attribution history, and auction coverage remain material limitations.

## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/carson-robert-taylor-19192008
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21453929
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/212809
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-taylor-carson/