# Roy Petley artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/roy-petley/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:57:04.087Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Roy Petley](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Roy_Petley.jpg)
Roy Petley · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Petley

## About Roy Petley

Roy Petley is a British painter born in 1951. His identity is represented across several established authority and cultural-data systems, including Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, RKDartists, and Art UK. These linked records help distinguish him from similarly named people and support reliable entity matching across artist, library, museum, and auction data. The collected material confirms his basic identity and occupation but does not provide enough readable evidence to assign a particular movement, school, recurring subject, or named body of work. Collectors may encounter Petley's name in auction listings for paintings, although attribution and object-level evidence should be reviewed separately. Additional museum, catalogue, or official artist documentation would be needed for a fuller account of his training, career, stylistic development, exhibitions, and artistic contexts.

## Common works and media

The available sources identify Roy Petley as a painter, so paintings are the only work type supported by this source pack. It does not establish particular materials, subjects, print editions, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, posters, named series, or career periods. Those details should be recorded from the object and verified against stronger artist-specific documentation before being used for classification or comparison.

## Market and appraisal context

A work offered as by Roy Petley should be assessed using both artist identity evidence and information specific to the object. Appraisily's collected input indicates an auction-record presence, but the available source pack does not expose individual lot descriptions or results. Useful comparison therefore depends on locating genuinely comparable public sales and reviewing their sale dates, realized prices, attribution language, and object characteristics. The present research does not support claims about price direction, scarcity, preferred subjects, or the relative value of particular media. Identity matches in authority records can help establish which Roy Petley is intended, but they do not authenticate a signature or establish authorship of an individual work.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source limitations and unresolved identity or object-level questions are retained rather than converted into unsupported conclusions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7373258
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500162424
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/53665910/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2004302011
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/62995
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/petley-roy-b-1951
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Petley
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/roy-petley/