# Robert Weir Allan artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:51:18.947Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Scottish, British
- Common media: Watercolour, Oil painting, Drawing and graphic work

## Portrait

![Robert Weir Allan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Robert_Weir_Allan_photo_c_1901.jpg)
uncredited photographer · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Weir_Allan_photo_c_1901.jpg

## About Robert Weir Allan

Robert Weir Allan, usually dated 1851–1942, was a Scottish-born British painter best known for landscape and marine subjects. Some authority records give 1852 as his birth year, so the exact year remains worth checking against a primary record. Sources describe an artist comfortable in both watercolour and oil, with a loose approach associated with painting outdoors. His subjects ranged from harbours, rivers, and coastal activity to broader landscapes, with the north-east coast of Scotland providing a recurring point of reference. Allan also travelled widely, expanding his subject matter beyond Britain, and exhibited in London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. Collectors are consequently likely to encounter varied waterside and landscape compositions rather than a single fixed series. His long exhibition career and facility across media help explain why his name appears in museum authority files, public art databases, and auction records, particularly in connection with British watercolours and late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century landscape painting.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter watercolour and oil landscapes, marine paintings, harbour views, coastal scenes, river subjects, and other waterside compositions. Scottish coastal scenery is especially associated with Allan in the available biography, while authority-linked work titles also indicate harbours, locks, burns, doorways, and figure groups. Drawings and graphic works may also appear, although the collected evidence for those categories is less detailed than for paintings and watercolours.

## Market and appraisal context

Works attributed to Robert Weir Allan should first be separated by medium and work type: an oil painting, finished watercolour, drawing, or graphic work should not be assessed against an undifferentiated group of records. Subject also matters when selecting comparisons, especially for marine, harbour, coastal, river, and Scottish landscape scenes. A defensible appraisal should then examine the individual object's attribution, signature, dimensions, condition, date, and provenance before comparing it with closely related public sales. The collected source pack confirms that auction records are associated with Allan, but it does not expose enough lot-level evidence to support a price range or market trend. Any valuation should therefore use verified comparable lots with documented sale dates and realized prices.

## 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. This profile distinguishes confirmed authority data from lower-confidence biographical and market context.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18508631
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95734114/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500008692
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG17126
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/allan-robert-weir-18511942
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Weir_Allan
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Weir_Allan
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-weir-allan/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Weir_Allan_photo_c_1901.jpg