George Howorth

MutualArt identifies George Howorth as an American painter active in the nineteenth century, born circa 1791 and died in 1864. This is currently a single sourced claim, not independently corroborated by a second biographical database in the material reviewed for this profile, and it is presented here with that caveat. No confirmed account of his training, and no confirmed gallery or estate representation, could be located.

Multiple other artists share a similar name, and care is required to avoid conflating them. Charles Henry Howorth (1856 to 1945) was a New Zealand painter and engineer. George James Howard (1843 to 1911), the 9th Earl of Carlisle, was a British painter whose work appears in Old Master and British art sales. Neither of these documented artists is the same person as the George Howorth identified above.

Howorth's nationality as American is stated directly by MutualArt and is also consistent with the placement of his one documented sale within United States "American Art" auction categories.

No verbatim critical commentary about George Howorth in a major art publication could be located and confirmed for this profile.

The one documented sale for George Howorth is a portrait of Alexander Hamilton, reported by both MutualArt and Antiques and The Arts Weekly. Antiques and The Arts Weekly describes it as his auction debut, selling for close to three times its high estimate. MutualArt gives the sale as USD 163,800 at Sotheby's New York in 2020; the exact day and month of the sale are not confirmed in the sources available for this profile. No additional auction results for this artist could be verified, and no catalogue raisonne, estate, or representing gallery has been identified.

The documented public record for George Howorth rests substantially on a single market source, MutualArt, for his life dates (circa 1791 to 1864), and on that source together with Antiques and The Arts Weekly and Lot Art for his one confirmed auction result. No confirmed training, and no identified gallery or estate representation, exists. Given how common this name and its spellings are among artists, collectors should independently verify any work attributed to this artist against the specific auction record cited here rather than against biographical details for the similarly named Charles Henry Howorth or George James Howard. Because no catalogue raisonne exists, provenance research for any individual work is essential before purchase.