# William Henry Hilliard artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:28:12.206Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Oil on canvas

## About William Henry Hilliard

William Henry Hilliard (1836–1905) was an American painter whose identity and life years are recorded by Wikidata and VIAF and linked to Getty’s Union List of Artist Names. The public works represented in the supplied source material are nineteenth-century oil-on-canvas landscapes. Their subjects include rivers, lakes, wooded paths, meadows, cattle, mountain backgrounds, and a view identified as Franconia Notch, New Hampshire. Several documented examples carry signatures, and one lake scene is dated 1868. Collectors may therefore encounter Hilliard through signed American landscape paintings depicting pastoral or mountainous scenery, sometimes with a specific New England location. The available evidence establishes his identity and characteristic examples more securely than it establishes a detailed biography or formal affiliation with a named movement. Any school attribution should consequently be checked against stronger scholarly documentation rather than inferred from landscape subject matter alone.

## Common works and media

Works represented in the source pack are oil paintings on canvas, principally landscape compositions. Recorded subjects include river and lake views, wooded country paths, meadows with cattle, distant mountains, and Franconia Notch in New Hampshire. Signatures appear in several catalogued examples, and one work is described as dated 1868. The supplied material does not establish a body of prints, sculptures, ceramics, or editioned works.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to William Henry Hilliard should begin by confirming its medium, signature or inscription, date, dimensions, subject, and physical condition. Collected examples include signed oil-on-canvas landscapes, a scene dated 1868, a view titled Franconia Notch, and a painting described as relined with light crazing. Those details help determine which public records are genuinely comparable. Depicted location and composition also matter when distinguishing a named mountain view from a more general river or lake landscape. Because the supplied evidence contains no readable realized-price results from a major auction house, it does not support a price forecast; valuation should rely on verified comparable sales and object-specific evidence.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28232387
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95820731/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500022651
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Hilliard_-_15741569a5.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Hilliard_-_Franconia_Notch,_New_Hampshire_oil_on_canvas_signed.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Hilliard_-_,_River_Landscape,_signed_lower_right,_9.jpg