# Seif Wanly artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/seif-wanly/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:52:27.081Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1906-03-31
- Death date: 1979-02-15
- Nationality: Egyptian

## About Seif Wanly

Seif Wanly (1906–1979), also catalogued as Mohammed Seif al-Din Wanly and under several Arabic-to-Latin transliterations, was an Egyptian painter born in Alexandria. Wikidata and VIAF establish his identity, profession, and life years. Arabic biographical accounts report that he taught oil painting at Alexandria’s Faculty of Fine Arts from its establishment in 1957, served as an artistic adviser to Alexandria’s cultural palaces, and led a local fine-arts association. His younger brother, Adham Wanly, was also a painter, and their long-running studio became associated with Alexandria’s artistic and intellectual life. A museum bearing the brothers’ names is reported within the Mahmoud Said Museums complex. Collectors may encounter Seif Wanly under spellings such as Seif Wanli, Sayf Wanli, or Muhammad Saif al-Din Wanli, making careful entity matching important when reviewing catalogues and auction records. The available evidence supports his basic biography more strongly than a precise movement, subject, or medium classification.

## Common works and media

The collected sources securely identify Seif Wanly as a painter, so paintings are the only broad work category supported here. The pack does not provide a dependable inventory of his recurring subjects, supports, techniques, drawings, prints, editions, sculptures, ceramics, posters, or named series. Individual auction descriptions should therefore be consulted before assigning a more specific work type or making assumptions about how commonly a medium or subject appears.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily dataset associates Seif Wanly with 214 auction records, providing a useful comparison pool but not, by itself, a price conclusion. Appraisal research should first reconcile the catalogued artist name with authority-record variants, since Wanly appears under multiple transliterations and inverted name forms. Relevant auction records can then be compared when their lot-level descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, and attribution language are available. This source pack does not expose those individual details, so it cannot support a price range, market trend, scarcity claim, or premium for any particular subject or medium. Conclusions about an individual work should remain tied to its own cataloguing and to genuinely comparable public sales.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. This profile’s core identity is grounded in Wikidata and VIAF, while secondary biographical details and evidence limitations are explicitly identified.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4119421
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/15851323/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83005720
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/12954499X
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000082006721
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seif_Wanly
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%84%D9%8A
- Wikipedia: https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%84%D9%89
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/seif-wanly/