# William Stanley Haseltine artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:43:15.853Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Düsseldorf school of painting, Hudson River School, Luminism
- Common media: Painting, Drawing

## Portrait

![William Stanley Haseltine](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Haseltine%2C_William_Stanley.jpg)
George Peter Alexander Healy · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haseltine,_William_Stanley.jpg

## About William Stanley Haseltine

William Stanley Haseltine (1835–1900) was an American painter and draftsman associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting, the Hudson River School, and Luminism. These overlapping contexts place him within nineteenth-century traditions concerned with close observation, carefully constructed compositions, and the expressive treatment of light. Authority records maintained through Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress help distinguish Haseltine from similarly named people and connect museum, library, and auction references to the same artist. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings as well as drawings and other works on paper. Appraisily's artist page also aggregates a substantial body of auction records under his public identity. Because the available source pack offers stronger identity evidence than detailed information about individual works, questions of subject, date, attribution, and object history should be evaluated from the specific work and its documentation.

## Common works and media

The collected identity sources describe Haseltine as both a painter and a draftsman. Accordingly, collectors and appraisers may encounter paintings, drawings, and related works on paper under his name. The source pack does not provide a sufficiently detailed, institution-backed catalogue of subjects, techniques, series, or editions, so those characteristics should be recorded from the object itself rather than assumed from the artist attribution.

## Market and appraisal context

William Stanley Haseltine's public auction record includes paintings and drawings, but the artist's name alone is not enough to determine value. Appraisal should begin by identifying the work type and medium, then comparing the object with relevant public sales. Comparable lots are most useful when their physical characteristics, attribution, and sale circumstances are genuinely similar. Condition, provenance, dimensions, subject, execution date, and the strength of the attribution may also matter, but the collected sources do not document those details for individual lots. Auction results should therefore be treated as historical comparison points rather than automatic price predictions, and an object's inscriptions or labels should be assessed alongside its physical evidence and ownership history.

## 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. Source coverage and object-level evidence vary, so auction data should support—not replace—a specific appraisal.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2762575
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500006808
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/42641268/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanley_Haseltine
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/william-stanley-haseltine/