# Robert William Vonnoh artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:57:43.056Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: American Impressionism
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Robert William Vonnoh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Bessie_Potter_Vonnoh%26Robert_Vonnoh%2Cca._1930.jpg)
unidentified photographer · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bessie_Potter_Vonnoh%26Robert_Vonnoh,ca._1930.jpg

## About Robert William Vonnoh

Robert William Vonnoh (1858–1933) was an American painter associated in the collected sources with American Impressionism. He is chiefly described as a painter of portraits and landscapes. His career connected the American East Coast with France, especially the artists' colony at Grez-sur-Loing. Authority data links his identity to works titled Afternoon Shadows, Grez, France; Apple Bloom; Attunement (Pleasant Valley); Beside the River (Grez); and The Bridge at Grez, reinforcing the recurring place-based context in his public record. Collectors may therefore encounter his name in connection with portraits, outdoor scenes, and landscapes related to Grez and other named locations. Appraisily treats the authority form Robert William Vonnoh and the shorter Robert Vonnoh as the same artist, using linked records from Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, the Library of Congress, and the National Gallery of Art to reduce mistaken identity.

## Common works and media

Public summaries identify Vonnoh primarily as a painter of portraits and landscapes. Authority-linked titles include Apple Bloom, Attunement (Pleasant Valley), Afternoon Shadows, Grez, France, Beside the River (Grez), and The Bridge at Grez. These records support place-based landscapes and portrait paintings as the principal work types likely to appear in auction or appraisal searches. The source pack does not establish a complete medium-by-medium catalogue, edition history, or separate print or sculpture practice, so unfamiliar objects should not be classified from the artist's name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with identity and object classification: determine whether a work is presented as a portrait or landscape and whether its title or documentation connects it to Grez or another recorded place. Useful comparisons should match the subject and stated work type before public sale dates, realized prices, attribution wording, and lot documentation are considered. The supplied Appraisily signal reports 168 records associated with this artist page, but the research pack contains no individual lots or major-auction-house results. It therefore supports a comparable-sales workflow rather than a price conclusion. Details specific to the object under review must be established separately before a defensible valuation can be made.

## 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. Source limitations are retained rather than converted into unsupported conclusions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1856567
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/4744160667890403560007/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500030182
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.39006.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Vonnoh
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Vonnoh
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-william-vonnoh/