# Stuart Park artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T17:59:17.095Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British, Scottish
- Movements: Glasgow Boys (associated colleague)
- Common media: Painting

## About Stuart Park

Stuart Park (1862–1933) was a British and Scottish painter best known for flower paintings. Born in Kidderminster to Scottish parents and brought up in Ayrshire, he attended Glasgow School of Art before continuing his studies in Paris with Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Fernand Cormon and Gustave Boulanger. Park worked alongside artists associated with the Glasgow Boys and shared a studio with David Gauld and James Kay. His reputation rests chiefly on carefully arranged flowers—particularly roses—often presented against dark backgrounds that emphasize their color and form. He also produced a smaller group of head-and-shoulder studies of young women surrounded by flowers. Park exhibited through organizations and venues including the Royal Scottish Academy, Glasgow Institute, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and Royal Academy. Collectors most often encounter his floral paintings in the auction market, while examples in British public collections provide useful reference points for subject, handling and attribution.

## Common works and media

Works most securely associated with Stuart Park are paintings of arranged flowers, commonly set against dark backgrounds. Roses are particularly characteristic, while authority records also identify subjects such as daffodils, lilies, orchids, primulas, begonias and geraniums. A less common group consists of head-and-shoulder studies of young women accompanied by flowers. Because the collected biographical evidence emphasizes paintings, auction listings described as prints, sculpture, editions or unrelated decorative objects require additional identity and attribution checks before being grouped with his established body of work.

## Market and appraisal context

Stuart Park's market is best assessed through closely comparable paintings rather than a page-wide average. Relevant comparisons should align in medium, dimensions, date, floral subject, condition, signature and attribution. His established association with flower painting—and especially roses—makes the type and quality of an arrangement useful contextual evidence. Provenance, exhibition history, restoration and surface condition may also influence an appraisal. Appraisily's public index reports matched auction activity spanning 2001–2026, but its name matching includes both “Stuart Park” and “James Stuart Park.” Each candidate comparable should therefore be checked for artist identity, imagery and cataloguing details. Realized prices should also be normalized for currency and for whether reported totals include buyer premiums or fees.

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## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/park-stuart-18621933
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/3696547/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21458438
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500009864
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/61825
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/stuart-park/