# William Kay Blacklock artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:32:57.573Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Oil painting, Watercolour

## About William Kay Blacklock

William Kay Blacklock (1872–1924) was a British painter associated in the collected sources with oil and watercolour. No particular movement or school is established by the available institutional records, so his work is more reliably described through its period, media, and subjects. Authority data connects Blacklock with titles including The Blue Kimono, A Dutch Idyll, and a view of Dordrecht. Wikimedia records credited to him also show reading, family, portrait, walking, and other everyday subjects. Together, these examples place his known practice within late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British figurative and genre painting while indicating an interest in Dutch settings and themes. Collectors are most likely to encounter unique paintings attributed to Blacklock in oil or watercolour. Cataloguers should note that public authority records disagree over whether he died in 1922 or 1924; this profile follows the 1924 date used by Wikidata and Art UK while preserving the conflict for further verification.

## Common works and media

Available evidence points primarily to oil paintings and watercolours. Documented titles and Wikimedia records indicate domestic interiors, family or figure scenes, portraits, outdoor figures, and Dutch settings or themes. The source pack does not establish a body of editions, prints, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, or posters, so works in those categories should not be treated as characteristic without additional evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first distinguish an oil painting from a watercolour and compare it with records in the same medium and with a genuinely similar subject. Titles and images connected to Blacklock range from domestic and figure scenes to portraits and Dutch themes, so a close subject or title match can help identify relevant comparables but cannot establish authorship by itself. Appraisily's directory input reports auction records for the artist's name, although the collected source pack did not expose the corresponding lot descriptions, sale dates, or realized prices. Those underlying records should be reviewed before reaching a market conclusion. Authority aliases and the unresolved 1922/1924 death-year discrepancy also require careful identity matching in historical auction catalogues.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When available, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots are reviewed alongside the identity evidence; this source pack did not expose the underlying lot-level records.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15979320
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96484023/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500107439
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/blacklock-william-kay-18721924
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kay_Blacklock
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/william-kay-blacklock/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Quiet_Read_by_William_Kay_Blacklock.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Kay_Blacklock_-_Lunchtime_Preparations.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Kay_Blacklock_-_Portrait_of_Nelly.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Playing_with_Mother_by_William_Kay_Blacklock.jpg