# Thomas Blinks artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:31:51.533Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Thomas Blinks](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Thomas_Blinks_and_wife.JPG)
Thomas Blinks · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Blinks_and_wife.JPG

## About Thomas Blinks

Thomas Blinks was a British painter associated with sporting and animal subjects. Art UK identifies him as Thomas Blinks (1860–1912) and documents works held by several British public collections. The recorded titles show a repertoire built around horses, dogs, huntsmen, deer, and field-sport scenes. Examples include Startled, After a Days' Sport, Sporting Scene, Two Setters in a Landscape, Pointers in a Landscape, and Stag at Bay on a Rocky Shore. These institutional records help explain why collectors encounter Blinks primarily through paintings of equestrian life, working dogs, hunting activity, and animals in landscape settings. Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, the Library of Congress, and the British Museum also maintain stable identity records for the artist. The available sources do not substantiate a specific movement or formal school. They do contain a lifespan conflict: Art UK and Wikidata use 1860–1912, while VIAF displays 1853–1910 from some contributing authorities.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Thomas Blinks's name are principally paintings of sporting and animal subjects. Documented examples feature horses at rest or in equestrian settings, setters and pointers in landscapes, hounds and huntsmen, deer or stags, and broader field-sport scenes. Institutional titles also include After a Days' Sport, Sporting Scene, Startled, and Stag at Bay on a Rocky Shore. The collected evidence does not establish a documented print series, sculpture practice, or named period, so such classifications should not be assigned without work-specific evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Thomas Blinks should begin with a careful identity and attribution check because public authority records disagree about his lifespan. Subject matter can help organize comparisons: institutional holdings document sporting scenes, horses, dogs, huntsmen, deer, and related landscape compositions. The most useful market comparison is a genuinely similar work rather than an artist-wide average, with attention to the lot description, stated medium, composition, sale date, realized price, and attribution used by the auction house. The collected source pack confirms that public auction records are associated with the artist but does not include detailed major-auction-house results. It therefore does not support conclusions about price direction, scarcity, or record values.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/blinks-thomas-18601912
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21460000
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/283323/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500016376
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG19882
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010019532
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/thomas-blinks/