# Frederick George Cotman - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T08:51:52.485Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 95
- Lots with prices: 61
- First auction date: 2003-03-27
- Latest auction date: 2026-02-08
- Median realised price: $450
- Price range: $40 to $15,000

## Market Takeaway
Frederick George Cotman shows solid auction liquidity with 94 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $420. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-06.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($420\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $200 and $850.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 80% (48 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 18.3% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 1.7% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $400
- Previous 12 months median: $1,300
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-06
- Days since latest sale: 74
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 15 lots
- Dawsons Auctioneers: 14 lots
- Keys Fine Art Auctioneers: 13 lots
- Cheffins: 4 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Helmuth Stone: 4 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 4 lots
- Mallams: 4 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 3 lots
- Lacy Scott & Knight: 3 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-02-08 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850 \- 1920\) Large 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Framed Oil Painting | Curated Gallery Auctions | $850 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-frederick-george-cotman-1850-1920-large-19th-century-impressionist-portrait-framed-oil-painting-113-c-19adef843c
2. 2025-12-06 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850\-1920\) \- Boats and lone fisherman on an East Anglian river, oil on canvas, relined, 43x69cm | Lacy Scott & Knight | £550
3. 2025-10-22 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850 \- 1920\) 'Afternoon Glow, St. Ives, Hunts', signed & dated 1915, oil on canvas, 41 x 59cm | Mallams | £400
4. 2025-10-22 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850\-1920\) 'Corfe Castle', signed, inscribed verso, watercolour, 10 x 20cm | Mallams | £40
5. 2024-12-11 | Frederick George Cotman \(British, 1850\-1920\), Spellbound, watercolor on paper laid to stiff artist's board, 21 x 29 1/2in \(53 1/2 x 75cm\) | Andrew Jones Auctions | $1,300
6. 2024-07-02 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850\-1920\), tall trees and a windmill by moonlight, oil on canvas, 19" x 14" \(48 x 36 | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
7. 2023-10-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850\-1920\), a young chargirl resting with her broom, oil on panel, signed and dated 1 | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £480
8. 2023-10-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850\-1920\), 'Afternoon Glow, St. Ives. Cambs', oil on canvas, signed and dated 1915, | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
9. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850 \- 1920\), 'The Lacemaker', etching, believed to be the only etching by the artist, the interior is believed to be the family cottage at Littleworth Common, later ink inscription verso, image 14.5cm x 12cm | Dawsons Auctioneers | N/A
10. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850 \- 1920\), ' The River Thames with Kew Bridge', signed & dated 1909, watercolour, 24cm x 45cm, within a thick card mount | Dawsons Auctioneers | £80
11. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850 \- 1920\), 'A Favourite Walk, Winchester', signed & dated 1889, watercolour laid onto board, 18cm x 25cm | Dawsons Auctioneers | £180
12. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850 \- 1920\), 'Hereford Sunset' signed, watercolour & 'Driving Sheep', watercolour, both within thick card mounts, images 18cm x 28cm & 26cm x 36cm | Dawsons Auctioneers | £70
13. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850 \- 1920\), 'Gaff rig boat with sail up', 'Open sailing boat with furled sail \(Blakeney?\)', 'Rowing boats and Morston? Bridge' & 'Fishing Boat', watercolours, each mounted on thick card with later ink inscriptions,... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £320
14. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(British, 1850\-1920\), Male Nude seated \(Italian\), oil on canvas, inscribed in ink verso F G Cotman, signed, F G Cotman Competition July 1869, 78cm x 52.5cm | Dawsons Auctioneers | £2,000
15. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850 \- 1920\), 'Portlemouth \- Salcombe Bay', 'The Stour at Langham, Essex' & 'Stanmore Old Church', signed & dated 1887, monochrome and watercolours, 21.5cm x 28cm, 15.5cm x 34.5cm & 33.5cm x 26.7cm, each within a thick... | Dawsons Auctioneers | N/A
16. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850 \- 1920\), 'Lincoln Cathedral \(from the river\)', signed, monochrome, overall 36.5cm x 28.5cm & 'Wargrave Church', signed & dated 1875, watercolour, 45.5cm x 30.5cm, each within a thick card mount with ink inscriptions | Dawsons Auctioneers | £50
17. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850 \- 1920\), 'Mill Moonlight' monochrome, 11.7cm x 18cm, 'A Feeding Trough', watercolour, 11.2cm x 17.3cm, 'A Fenland Dyke', pencil sketch, initialled & dated 16.5.88, 9cm x 13cm & charcoal sketch of a cow, 12cm x 9cm,... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £100
18. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850 \- 1920\), ' The Mill \- Blakeney?', 'Near Cliff Bight \- Ipswich', watercolours, and a double sided pencil sketch 'Path Through the Cornfield', each within thick card mounts, with later ink inscriptions, 12.7cm x 17.4cm,... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £130
19. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(British, 1850\-1920\), 'Portrait of Henry William Cotman \(1876\-1938\) as a boy by his Father', oil on canvas, inscribed in ink verso EX at the art of the Seven Cotmans EX Norwich Castle Museum July 1942. | Dawsons Auctioneers | £420
20. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850 \- 1920\), 'Beccle on the Waveney', 'Eel Boats' & 'Hay Barges \(In River & At Quay\)', each signed in pencil verso, watercolors, mounted on card, smallest 13.6cm x 9.5cm, largest 25.4cm x 18.2cm | Dawsons Auctioneers | £140
21. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850 \- 1920\), 'Portrait of Mrs Henry Cotman \(nee Maria Taylor\)', mother of the artist, signed and dated 1870, pencil, 38cm x 27.8cm, by the same hand 'Still Life \- Blossoming Flowers and Insects on a Rock', unsigned,... | Dawsons Auctioneers | N/A
22. 2023-05-25 | Frederick George Cotman \(British, 1850\-1920\), Self Portrait of the Artist as a young man holding a brush to his cheek, oil on canvas, inscribed in ink verso F.G. Cotman by Himself when a lad of about 17, c. 1867, 30cm x 24.5cm | Dawsons Auctioneers | £500
23. 2022-03-22 | Frederick George Cotman \(1850\-1920\) | Sworders | N/A
24. 2021-12-10 | Frederick George Cotman \(British, 1850\-1 | Kinghams Auctioneers | £160

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