# Bass Otis - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T17:58:27.874Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 33
- Lots with prices: 28
- First auction date: 2002-11-22
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-28
- Median realised price: $700
- Price range: $20 to $32,500

## Market Takeaway
Bass Otis has 33 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $700. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($700\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($400 to $1,053\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 67.9% (19 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 25% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 7.1% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $550
- Previous 12 months median: $325
- Median shift: 69.2%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-28
- Days since latest sale: 163
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Eldred's: 5 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 3 lots
- Alderfer Auction: 2 lots
- Brunk Auctions: 2 lots
- Copake Auction Inc.: 2 lots
- Freeman's: 2 lots
- Skinner: 2 lots
- Amelia Jeffers: 1 lots
- Auctionata Paddle8 AG: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-28 | BASS OTIS \(PHILADELPHIA, 1784\-1861\) OIL ON CANVAS FULL\-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF JOHN COOKE. | Amelia Jeffers | $900
2. 2025-11-12 | Bass Otis \(1784\-1861\), A Portrait of a Young Child | Freeman’s | $550
3. 2025-01-31 | BASS OTIS \(American, 1784\-1861\) Portrait of a Man, 1854 25 x 30 in. \(63.5 x 76.2 cm\) framed 28 x 34 x 2 in. \(71.1 x 86.4 x 5.1 cm\) | Bonhams | $500
4. 2025-01-10 | BASS OTIS \(Pennsylvania/Massachusetts, 1784\-1861\), Portrait of Hanna Huxley., Oil on canvas, 30" x 25". Framed 39" x 33". | Eldred's | $325
5. 2024-09-07 | Bass Otis \(1784\-1861\) | Marion Antique Auctions | $850
6. 2024-08-21 | BASS OTIS \(Pennsylvania/Massachusetts, 1784\-1861\), Portrait of William Vinton, age 19., Oil on canvas, 17" x 14". Framed 20" x 17.5". | Eldred's | $200
7. 2024-03-21 | Attributed to Bass Otis | Brunk Auctions | $400
8. 2023-09-16 | Attributed to Bass Otis | Brunk Auctions | N/A
9. 2022-11-17 | BASS OTIS \(Pennsylvania/Massachusetts, 1784\-1861\), Portrait of Hanna Huxley., Oil on canvas, 30" x 25". Framed 39" x 33". | Eldred's | $700
10. 2021-09-30 | Bass Otis, oil on canvas family portrait | Pook & Pook Inc. | $4,600
11. 2021-04-01 | BASS OTIS \(Pennsylvania/Massachusetts, 1784\-1861\), A stately home on the riverfront., Lithograph on paper, 4.25" x 5.25" sight. Framed 11.5" x 14.5". | Eldred's | $950
12. 2020-07-14 | BASS OTIS \(AMERICAN, 1784 \- 1861\) PORTRAIT OF A MOTHER AND CHILD. | Morphy Auctions | N/A
13. 2019-06-06 | Bass Otis \(1784 \- 1861\) | Alderfer Auction | $475
14. 2019-04-30 | Bass Otis \(1784\-1861\), Portrait of Marie Louise Vernier Besson \(1773\-1849\) | Freeman's \| Hindman | $400
15. 2019-03-21 | Bass Otis \(1784 \- 1861\) | Alderfer Auction | $4,000
16. 2018-11-14 | Bass Otis \(1784\-1861\) after Thomas Sully \(1783\-1872\), Portrait of Peter Stephen Du Ponceau \(1760\-1844\) | Freeman's \| Hindman | $10,625
17. 2018-06-23 | BASS OTIS \(AMERICAN, 1784\-1861\), ATTRIBUTED, PORTRAIT OF A MAN | Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates | $497
18. 2018-01-07 | Oil on Canvas Portrait by Bass Otis | Peachtree & Bennett | $500
19. 2017-12-02 | Bass Otis\(1784\-1861\) Kanapima Ottawa Chief Illus. | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $20
20. 2015-11-21 | Bass Otis \(1784\-1861\) | Copake Auction Inc. | $575
21. 2015-05-18 | Bass Otis, Portrait of Adrianna Haynes Physick, USA, um 1840 | Auctionata Paddle8 AG | N/A
22. 2015-05-16 | Bass Otis \(1784\-1861\), Portrait Of A Gentleman | Copake Auction Inc. | $1,053
23. 2014-11-13 | Bass Otis \(1784\-1861\), pair of portraits: william hillegas and his wife eliza culp hillegas | Freeman's | $3,125
24. 2014-10-11 | BASS OTIS \(American, 1784\-1861\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $400

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