# William Crosbie artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:34:10.593Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Scottish
- Common media: Painting

## About William Crosbie

William “Bill” Crosbie (1915–1999) was a Scottish painter identified consistently by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, and VIAF authority records. The collected evidence does not establish an exact birth or death date or support assigning him to a specific artistic movement. VIAF’s associated title record indicates a varied practice: flower and still-life subjects appear in titles such as Anemones and Asters and White Carnation, while Cambridge from Grantchester and Beaune point to place-based work. Other indexed titles encompass portraiture, religious imagery, birds, figures, and decorative compositions. Collectors may therefore encounter Crosbie through paintings with substantially different subjects rather than through one narrowly defined series. Because William Crosbie is also the name of unrelated public figures, matching an object to the Scottish painter’s dates and authority identifiers is especially important when cataloguing or researching an attributed work.

## Common works and media

Authority-linked titles indicate that Crosbie's recorded output includes paintings of flowers and still-life arrangements, landscapes or named places, portraits and figures, birds, religious subjects, and decorative compositions. The source pack does not establish whether prints, sculptures, ceramics, or formal editioned series are characteristic parts of his market.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to William Crosbie should begin by confirming that the artist is the Scottish painter born in 1915 and not another person with the same name. Documented or traceable titles can help connect a work with the varied subjects indexed in authority records, including flowers, landscapes, portraits, figures, and religious compositions. Comparable public auction lots are most useful when their work type, subject, attribution, and sale date closely match the object being assessed. The collected source pack does not provide detailed auction-house results, so it does not support price forecasts. A work-specific appraisal should separately verify medium, dimensions, signature, condition, provenance, attribution status, and the relevance of any comparable sales.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16014352
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500017142
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95786417/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crosbie_(artist)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/william-crosbie/