# Thomas Webster artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:27:20.608Z
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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1800-03-10
- Death date: 1886-09-23
- Nationality: British, English
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking

## Portrait

![Thomas Webster](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Thomas_Webster03.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Webster03.jpg

## About Thomas Webster

Thomas Webster (1800–1886) was a British painter known especially for narrative genre scenes drawn from school and village life. Children, classrooms, domestic incidents, and everyday community interactions recur in the subjects associated with his work. These accessible scenes found a broad audience in Victorian Britain, and a number of his compositions became familiar through prints. Webster also lived for many years at Cranbrook in Kent, where an artists' colony developed around painters interested in carefully observed rural and domestic subjects. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings as well as prints and other works connected with reproduced compositions. Authority records identify him as both a painter and printmaker, while museum and library profiles consistently place his life between 1800 and 1886. His storytelling subjects and the circulation of images after his paintings help explain why works bearing his name continue to appear in auction and appraisal contexts.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Thomas Webster's name commonly include British genre paintings and prints connected with narrative scenes of school or village life. Images featuring children are particularly characteristic in the collected biographical sources. Because his compositions circulated through prints, cataloguing should distinguish a painting from a print made by Webster, a print made after his work, and a later reproduction.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first establish whether an object is an original painting, an original print, or a later reproductive impression after one of Webster's compositions. The distinction matters because available sources describe him as a painter and printmaker while also noting that paintings became popular through prints. Subject matter can assist comparison: schoolrooms, children, village life, and gently humorous everyday incidents are recurring contexts, but they do not establish authorship by themselves. Attribution, inscriptions, medium, and the stated connection between a print and a painting should be assessed carefully. Relevant public auction records can then be compared by work type, subject, sale date, and realized price when sufficiently similar records are available.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with available auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Each object still requires individual examination of medium, attribution, and its relationship to documented works.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4334890
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500119255
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/78639330/
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/thomas-webster-590
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Webster_(painter)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Webster_(peintre)
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Webster_(schilder)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/thomas-webster/