# Thomas Uwins artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/thomas-uwins/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:55:13.899Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1782-02-24
- Death date: 1857-08-26
- Nationality: British
- Common media: Watercolour, Oil painting, Book illustration

## Portrait

![Thomas Uwins](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Thomas_Uwins_by_John_Partridge.jpg/1280px-Thomas_Uwins_by_John_Partridge.jpg)
John Partridge · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Uwins_by_John_Partridge.jpg

## About Thomas Uwins

Thomas Uwins (1782–1857) was a British painter, watercolourist, and book illustrator whose career encompassed portraits, genre and subject scenes, landscapes, and work in both watercolour and oil. His professional standing included full membership in the Old Watercolour Society and election as a Royal Academician. Uwins also held prominent institutional appointments, serving as librarian of the Royal Academy, Surveyor of Pictures to Queen Victoria, and Keeper of the National Gallery. This combination of studio practice, illustration, and public art administration places him within the professional British art world of the first half of the nineteenth century. Collectors may encounter his name on watercolours and oil paintings representing several subject categories rather than one narrowly defined body of work. Authority records maintained by Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, Tate, and other institutions help distinguish him from similarly named artists and connect works or records catalogued under the inverted form “Uwins, Thomas.”

## Common works and media

Works encountered in appraisal and auction contexts may include watercolour paintings, oil paintings, portraits, narrative or everyday genre scenes, landscapes, and illustrations connected with books. Because Uwins worked across several media and subjects, cataloguing should identify the object type and technique precisely before comparable sales are selected.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work associated with Thomas Uwins should begin with the object’s medium and subject category. His documented practice included watercolour and oil, as well as portraits, genre or subject scenes, landscapes, and book illustration. Those distinctions matter when selecting genuinely comparable auction records. The attribution itself should also be checked against signatures, inscriptions, cataloguing history, and stable artist authority records rather than inferred from style alone. Appraisily’s public artist page provides an auction-record starting point, but the collected research pack does not include lot-level auction-house evidence sufficient to support a price trend or scarcity claim. A valuation should therefore compare like with like and review the individual work’s date, dimensions, condition, provenance, and supporting documentation before drawing a conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Identity and market evidence are kept distinct so that individual appraisal conclusions can be based on the specific object and the strongest available records.

## Sources

- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/thomas-uwins-560
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7794639
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/47025900/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500005245
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Uwins
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Uwins
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/thomas-uwins/