# Bessie MacNicol - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T20:25:17.176Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 15
- Lots with prices: 10
- First auction date: 2005-04-18
- Latest auction date: 2024-12-05
- Median realised price: $4,750
- Price range: $1,625 to $48,000

## Market Takeaway
Bessie MacNicol has 15 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,750. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($4,750\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,500 to $38,000\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 60% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 40% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $28,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-12-05
- Days since latest sale: 509
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Lyon & Turnbull: 7 lots
- Sotheby's: 5 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Great Western Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-12-05 | BESSIE MACNICOL \(SCOTTISH 1869\-1904\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £38,000
2. 2024-06-06 | BESSIE MACNICOL \(SCOTTISH 1869\-1904\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £28,000
3. 2023-12-07 | BESSIE MACNICOL \(SCOTTISH 1869\-1904\) THE LILAC SUNBONNET | Lyon & Turnbull | £44,000
4. 2022-12-08 | BESSIE MACNICOL \(SCOTTISH 1869\-1904\) ELIZABETH | Lyon & Turnbull | £48,000
5. 2017-06-14 | BESSIE MACNICOL \(SCOTTISH 1869\-1904\) THE DEBUTANTE 24cm x 16.5cm \(9.5in x 6.5in\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £1,750
6. 2014-05-22 | BESSIE MACNICOL \(SCOTTISH 1869\-1904\) IN THE PARK 16.5cm x 11.5cm \(6.5in x 4.5in\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £4,750
7. 2012-06-09 | BESSIE MACNICOL \(1869\-1904\) PORTRAIT OF PEGGIE | Great Western Auctions | £5,300
8. 2012-03-22 | Bessie MacNicol \(1869\-1904\) | Christie's | £3,125
9. 2010-04-22 | BESSIE MACNICOL | Sotheby's | N/A
10. 2009-12-02 | BESSIE MACNICOL \(SCOTTISH 1869\-1904\) PORTRAIT OF A LADY WITH A FAN 35.5cm x 27cm \(14in x 10.5in\) | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
11. 2008-05-01 | Bessie MacNicol , 1869\-1904 Still Life with an Oriental Vase watercolour and gouache | Sotheby's | £2,500
12. 2008-05-01 | Bessie MacNicol , 1869\-1904 vanity oil on canvas | Sotheby's | N/A
13. 2008-05-01 | Bessie MacNicol , 1869\-1904 A Portrait of Mary oil on canvas | Sotheby's | N/A
14. 2008-04-16 | In the greenwood | Christie's | £1,625
15. 2005-04-18 | BESSIE MACNICOL 1869\-1904 PORTRAIT OF MARIA STEUART | Sotheby's | N/A

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