# Robert Wallace Martin artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:53:24.000Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Movements: Art pottery, Studio pottery context
- Common media: Pottery

## About Robert Wallace Martin

Robert Wallace Martin (1843–1923) was a British artist whose authority record identifies him as a painter, while the public context available here chiefly connects his name with the Martin Brothers pottery. The four brothers manufactured pottery in London from 1873 to 1914, and their work was known as Martinware. It was described in its own era as art pottery and is also placed within the later concept of studio pottery. This dual identity matters for entity matching: searches and catalogues may present Robert Wallace Martin as an individual artist, as one of the Martin Brothers, or through workshop-level Martinware attributions. Collectors therefore encounter his name primarily in connection with British pottery offered under individual or family-workshop descriptions. The current evidence does not establish his precise workshop role, particular forms, or detailed career chronology, so those points should not be inferred from the group record alone.

## Common works and media

The available evidence associates Robert Wallace Martin with Martinware and the Martin Brothers' London pottery production. Auction and appraisal records may categorize related objects as pottery, British art pottery, or studio pottery. The source pack does not reliably identify specific vessel forms, subjects, decorative techniques, or designs as Robert's individual work.

## Market and appraisal context

A careful appraisal should distinguish an attribution to Robert Wallace Martin from a broader attribution to the Martin Brothers workshop. The documented London production period of 1873–1914 supplies useful chronological context, while the catalogue category may describe a work as Martinware, art pottery, or studio pottery. Comparable auction evidence should be matched by attribution, work type, stated date, sale date, and realized price rather than by the Martin name alone. The collected sources do not support a price trend or prediction, and the available Appraisily page could not be inspected beyond its source metadata because the fetch was rate-limited.

## Appraisily data basis

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

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21454001
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/martin-robert-wallace-18431923
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021771
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/86105635/
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/137942907
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000066900897
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Brothers
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-wallace-martin/