# William Lee-Hankey artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T11:45:05Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Etching and printmaking, Book illustration

## About William Lee-Hankey

William Lee-Hankey (1869–1952) was a British painter, printmaker, and illustrator born in Chester. The British Museum records his training at Chester School of Art, the Royal College of Art, and later in Paris, followed by extensive exhibition in London from the 1890s. His documented practice includes painting and etching, while biographical summaries also associate him with landscapes, character studies, and portraits of pastoral life, particularly mothers with young children. This combination of fine-art and illustrative activity helps explain why collectors encounter his name in several forms: an object may be a painting, an original etching, another print, or material connected with book illustration rather than one uniform category. Getty, VIAF, Wikidata, and museum records consistently identify the same British artist and the 1869–1952 lifespan, although name order and punctuation vary. Careful matching of the artist's identity, medium, subject, and date is therefore important when researching a possible Lee-Hankey work.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings, etchings and other prints, and works associated with book illustration. Reported subjects include landscapes, character studies, pastoral scenes, and studies of mothers with young children. Because Lee-Hankey worked in more than one medium, an artist-name match alone does not establish the correct auction category or authenticate an individual object.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by identifying whether an object is a painting, an etching or other print, or illustrated material. These categories should not be compared as though they were interchangeable. Subject and date also help narrow the relevant context: landscape, character, and pastoral figure studies may require different comparable works, while the object's proposed date should be assessed against Lee-Hankey's documented career. The collected source pack does not provide individual realized prices or major auction-house market commentary, so it does not support a price forecast. Any valuation should instead use verified, like-for-like public auction records selected for the same medium, technique, subject, and period.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity and market evidence are kept distinct so that documented biography does not substitute for object-specific appraisal research.

## Sources

- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG35248
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/61822605/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8014430
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500008963
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lee_Hankey
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/william-lee-hankey/