# Willem Hendrik van der Nat artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/willem-hendrik-van-der-nat/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:23:23.130Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Painting, Drawing and works on paper

## Portrait

![Willem Hendrik van der Nat](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Willem_van_der_Nat_-_Zelfportret_%281921%29.jpg/1280px-Willem_van_der_Nat_-_Zelfportret_%281921%29.jpg)
Willem van der Nat · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Willem_van_der_Nat_-_Zelfportret_(1921).jpg

## About Willem Hendrik van der Nat

Willem Hendrik van der Nat was a Dutch artist whose documented life spans 1864 to 1929. Public authority records identify him principally as a painter, while VIAF also records him as a draftsman. Paintings and works on paper are therefore the clearest documented categories through which collectors may encounter his name. His career belongs chronologically to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, although the collected sources do not establish a specific movement, school, subject specialization, or named series. Multiple authority identifiers—including Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, ISNI, and RKD links—help distinguish him from artists with similar surnames or abbreviated names. One VIAF-contributed record gives 1865 rather than 1864 as his birth year, so object records and catalogues should preserve their cited form rather than silently resolving that discrepancy. Appraisily’s collected input associates the artist with 184 auction records, providing a starting point for category-specific comparison.

## Common works and media

Public sources identify Van der Nat as a painter and draftsman. The best-supported work categories for artist-page and auction research are therefore paintings, drawings, and related works on paper. The collected material does not reliably establish particular subjects, techniques, editions, named series, or a specific artistic movement, so those details should be taken from the individual object and its documented history rather than inferred from the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily input associates Willem Hendrik van der Nat with 184 auction records, but that count alone does not establish value, scarcity, liquidity, or a price trend. Because public identity sources describe both painting and drafting, appraisal research should first separate paintings from drawings and other works on paper. Available comparables should then be checked for genuinely similar work types and reviewed with their auction house, sale date, realized price, and lot description. The present source pack does not provide enough lot-level evidence to characterize preferred subjects, periods, or recurring series. Attribution and object-specific conclusions therefore require examination beyond the artist-level identity record.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Authority links help match records to the correct artist, while object-level evidence remains necessary for appraisal conclusions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19922128
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95791947/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500018074
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_van_der_Nat
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/willem-hendrik-van-der-nat/