# Thomas Rowden artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/thomas-rowden/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:40:31.383Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English
- Common media: Oil on canvas

## About Thomas Rowden

Thomas Rowden (1842–1926) is identified by Wikidata as an English artist. The limited public material assembled for this page associates his name with rural landscapes featuring cattle, sheep, and horses, including moorland and coastal settings. Collected Wikimedia records also describe an example in oil on canvas. These records help explain why collectors may encounter Rowden’s name on animal and landscape paintings, but they do not replace a museum biography, scholarly catalogue, or catalogue raisonné. Getty ULAN, VIAF, and RKD identifiers provide useful anchors for distinguishing this artist from people with similar names, although the underlying records were not fully retrievable during collection. Specific claims about Rowden’s training, exhibitions, regional affiliations, and artistic movement therefore remain unresolved. Any attribution should be assessed from the individual object and its documented history rather than from a name match alone.

## Common works and media

The collected image metadata shows landscape paintings with grazing cattle, sheep on a coastal bluff, and horses in moorland scenery. One record describes oil on canvas. Because these examples come from Wikimedia Commons metadata rather than a systematic catalogue of the artist’s work, they indicate work types that may be encountered but do not establish a complete catalogue, a dominant medium, or authenticated authorship for every similarly signed rural landscape.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily input associates 198 auction records with Thomas Rowden, but the underlying lots and realized prices were not available for verification in this source pack. That count should be treated as a catalogue signal, not as evidence of a price level or market trend. For an appraisal, examine the strength of the attribution, signature evidence, medium and support, subject, dimensions, condition, restoration history, provenance, and date. Comparisons are most useful when they involve closely related works with transparent auction-house descriptions and confirmed sale results. Generic landscape results or records carrying uncertain attribution should not be treated as direct comparables.

## 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 and sufficiently documented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43136022
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500105448
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96467044/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/68640
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/thomas-rowden/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Rowden_-_6bf4cce876.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Rowden_-_57f4617b76.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Rowden_-_1ea4a0b8e6.jpg