# Walter Wallor Caffyn artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:35:49.104Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints

## About Walter Wallor Caffyn

Walter Wallor Caffyn was a British painter best documented for landscapes and local views. Art UK records paintings under his name in several British public collections, while VIAF identifies him as a painter and landscapist. Known titles connect his work closely with southern English scenery: Box Hill and the Weald of Surrey, the River Rother in Sussex, and the Thames near Sonning in Berkshire. Rural fields, gardens, waterways, and recognizable local buildings also appear among the institutional records. These works place his clearest artistic context within late-nineteenth-century British landscape painting, although the collected sources do not establish a specific formal movement. Collectors may encounter Caffyn through traditional landscape paintings, regional British subjects, and auction lots catalogued under a variant spelling, Walter Waller Caffyn. His identity is supported by Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, RKD, and Art UK records, but published authority sources disagree about his lifespan: Art UK uses 1850–1897, while VIAF displays 1845–1898.

## Common works and media

The most securely documented works are landscape paintings depicting British countryside, rivers, gardens, fields, and local architecture. Institutional titles identify subjects in Surrey, Sussex, and Berkshire, including Box Hill, the Weald of Surrey, the River Rother, and the Thames near Sonning. Appraisily also places some matched records within a broad works-on-paper-and-prints category, but that classification is less securely established by the identity sources and should be verified from each lot's cataloguing, images, and condition report.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily currently associates Caffyn with 100 matched auction records, 70 of which include priced results, across a reported 2001–2025 sale-date range. Those records provide useful comparable evidence, but a median or observed range should not be treated as a prediction for an individual work. Appraisal should begin with the exact medium, dimensions, subject, date, condition, restoration history, signature, inscriptions, provenance, and attribution language. Comparisons are strongest when the selected lots resemble the object in both format and subject, particularly for documented British landscapes and waterside scenes. Auction totals can also differ in whether fees or buyer premiums are included, and private transactions or revised attributions may be absent from public feeds.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Authority conflicts, incomplete feeds, private sales, and attribution changes are retained as appraisal caveats.

## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/caffyn-walter-wallor-18501897
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95835912/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500025040
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18508715
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/14698
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/walter-wallor-caffyn/