# Cornelius Varley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T17:51:40.748Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 61
- Lots with prices: 50
- First auction date: 2002-06-13
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-22
- Median realised price: $700
- Price range: $60 to $46,875

## Market Takeaway
Cornelius Varley has 61 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $700. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($220 to $3,250\) 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: 60% (30 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 28% (14 sales)
- $10,000\+: 12% (6 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $150
- Previous 12 months median: $100
- Median shift: 50%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-22
- Days since latest sale: 188
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 14 lots
- Sotheby's: 11 lots
- Bonhams: 5 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 3 lots
- Woolley & Wallis: 3 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 2 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 2 lots
- Historia Auctionata: 2 lots
- Mallams: 2 lots
- Reeman Dansie: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2023-12-13 | CORNELIUS VARLEY \(BRITISH 1781\-1873\) | Olympia Auctions | £700 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-cornelius-varley-british-1781-1873-11-c-b0346d1900
2. 2025-10-22 | Cornelius Varley \(1781\-1873\) Old houses on a Riverbank, possibly Shrewsbury, inscribed 'Salop', pencil, 20 x 24cm; and another by the same hand \- an Outhouse on a wooded slope, pencil, 22 x 31cm. \(2\) Provenance: with the Gallery Downstairs... | Mallams | £65
3. 2025-06-17 | CORNELIUS VARLEY \(1781\-1873\) 'A Peter Boat called Tryall owned by W.Tappy drawn up on shore' watercolour, pe | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £400
4. 2025-04-29 | CORNELIUS VARLEY \(BRITISH, 1781\-1873\) \- Thames barge on mud flats with raised leeboards | Charles Miller Ltd | £150
5. 2025-01-28 | CORNELIUS VARLEY \(1781\-1873\) \(ATT | Historia Auctionata | €100
6. 2024-11-15 | CORNELIUS VARLEY \(1781\-1873\) \(ATT | Historia Auctionata | N/A
7. 2023-12-08 | CORNELIUS VARLEY \(BRITISH 1781\-1873\), LANDSCAPE WITH A HILLSIDE TOWN, WITH ANOTHER | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £160
8. 2023-11-16 | Cornelius Varley, pencil drawing, 1826 | Millea Bros Ltd | $700
9. 2021-06-30 | CORNELIUS VARLEY \(BRITISH, 1781\-1873\) | Cheffins | £220
10. 2019-03-28 | Cornelius Varley \(1781\-1873\) Working Specula | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $70
11. 2019-03-14 | Cornelius Varley \(1781\-1873\) Working Specula | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | N/A
12. 2019-03-06 | CORNELIUS VARLEY \(BRITISH 1781\-1873\) | Chiswick Auctions | £625
13. 2018-12-30 | Cornelius Varley \(1781 \- 1873\), Watercolour, Swiss | Claydon Auctioneers | £65
14. 2018-10-03 | CORNELIUS VARLEY \(BRITISH 1781\-1873\) | Chiswick Auctions | £187
15. 2017-08-01 | Cornelius Varley \(1781\-1873\) \- Four small pencil sketches \(from artists sketchbook\) \- Church opposite Conway, 4.5ins x 7.5ins, signed and dated 1801, "Wimbledon" \- View of part of a house, 7.25ins x 4.5ins, and two studies of cows lying down, 3.5ins x 5ins and 3.25 x 6.25ins, in three modern gilt moulded frames and glazed Provenance: P & D Colnaghi & Co Ltd, 14 Old Bond Street, London, W1X 4JI | Canterbury Auction Galleries | N/A
16. 2016-03-09 | CORNELIUS VARLEY \(1781\-1873\) The Upper Lake, Killarney, inscribed 'Upper Lake', pencil and brow | Mallams | £280
17. 2015-03-25 | CORNELIUS VARLEY \(HACKNEY 1781\-1873 Vue de Cader Idris au Pays de Galles mi | Christie's | €4,750
18. 2015-02-18 | Cornelius Varley \(1781 \- 1873\), pencil study \- A W | Reeman Dansie | £920
19. 2014-12-04 | Cornelius Varley \(1781\-1873\) Thames craft, 12 x 8.5in. | Gorringes | £340
20. 2014-06-25 | Cornelius Varley \(1781 \- 1873\), pencil and | Reeman Dansie | £380
21. 2014-03-25 | Cornelius Varley \(1781\-1873\), Westminster Abbey | Dreweatts 1759 | £200
22. 2014-02-12 | Cornelius Varley \(1781\-1873\) \- Bagnigwells Road, Bottle Kiln, | Dreweatts 1759 | £62
23. 2014-02-12 | Cornelius Varley \(1781\-1873\) \- Westminster Abbey from St. James' Park, | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
24. 2013-04-09 | Untitled lot | Christie's | £3,250

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