# Cephas Thompson - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T19:34:20.678Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 14
- Lots with prices: 10
- First auction date: 2006-12-02
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-09
- Median realised price: $1,500
- Price range: $400 to $30,000

## Market Takeaway
Cephas Thompson has 14 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($1,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,100 to $3,000\) 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: 20% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 70% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 10% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $400
- Previous 12 months median: $1,500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-09
- Days since latest sale: 185
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Weschler's: 2 lots
- Curated Gallery Auctions: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Freeman's: 1 lots
- Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates: 1 lots
- John McInnis Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Kavanagh Auctions: 1 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 1 lots
- Marion Antique Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-09 | Cephas Thompson \(1775 \- 1856\) Antique Boston School American Portrait Oil Painting "James D'Wolf" | Curated Gallery Auctions | $400 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-cephas-thompson-1775-1856-antique-boston-school-american-portrait-oil-painting-james-d-wolf-362-c-5b3af84c21
2. 2023-09-23 | CEPHAS THOMPSON \(1775\-1856\), ATTRIBUTED, PORTRAIT OF ANNE MARSDEN SMITH OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA | Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates | $1,722 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-cephas-thompson-1775-1856-attributed-portrait-of-anne-marsden-smith-of-norfolk-virginia-1187-c-a01445b93f
3. 2024-12-14 | Cephas Thompson \(American, 1775 \- 1856\) Portrait | Kavanagh Auctions | CA$1,500
4. 2023-08-19 | Cephas Thompson \(1775\-1856, Middleboro, MA\) pair | Marion Antique Auctions | $1,100
5. 2023-05-05 | CEPHAS THOMPSON \(1775\-1856\) CIRCA 1830 | John McInnis Auctioneers | N/A
6. 2023-04-07 | CEPHAS THOMPSON \(Massachusetts, 1775\-1856\), Half\-length portrait of a handsome gentleman holding a book, circa 1815., Oil on panel, 29" x 23.5". Framed 37" x 31.5". | Eldred's | $1,400
7. 2020-01-25 | CEPHAS THOMPSON \(1775 \- 1856\) \| Pair of Portraits: Captain Charles DeWolf and Elizabeth Rogerson | Sotheby's | $3,000
8. 2019-11-21 | Cephas Thompson, Oil on Canvas Pair of Portraits | Weiss Auctions | N/A
9. 2018-01-18 | CEPHAS THOMPSON \(1775 \- 1856\) \| Pair of Miniature Portraits: Mary Almira Rockwell \(1804\-1842\) and Her Brother Ebenezer Whelpsley \(1792\-1862\) | Sotheby's | N/A
10. 2015-12-05 | Cephas Thompson \(MA, 1775\-1856\), Mr. & Mrs. John Moore Mütter of Richmond, VA | Leland Little Auctions | $30,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-cephas-thompson-ma-1775-1856-mr-mrs-john-moore-mutter-of-richmond-va-472-c-64740a7ba7
11. 2013-08-11 | Cephas Thompson \(Massachusetts, 1775\-1856\) Portrait of a Young Man with Curly Brown Hair and Blue Eyes, c. 1830. Impressed signature "C | Skinner | $2,160
12. 2008-04-14 | Cephas Thompson \(1775\-1856\) portrait of david | Freeman's | $8,000
13. 2007-05-19 | Cephas Thompson \(American 1775\-1856\) Portrait of John Alden \(1718\-1821\), oil on panel, 30 x 25 in | Weschler's | $700
14. 2006-12-02 | Cephas Thompson \(American 1775\-1856\) Portrait of John Alden \(1718\-1821\), oil on panel, 30 x 25 in | Weschler's | N/A

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