# Frederick Sproston Challener - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T08:52:28.525Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 34
- Lots with prices: 25
- First auction date: 2003-04-08
- Latest auction date: 2024-11-07
- Median realised price: $1,140
- Price range: $180 to $5,664

## Market Takeaway
Frederick Sproston Challener has 34 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,140. 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 \($1,140\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($600 to $3,540\) 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: 44% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 56% (14 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $300
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-11-07
- Days since latest sale: 538
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Waddington's: 26 lots
- Joyner: 2 lots
- Maynards Fine Art & Antiques: 2 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 1 lots
- Charlton Hall: 1 lots
- Hodgins Art Auctions Ltd.: 1 lots
- Walker's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-07 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1959\), THE CARETAKERS COTTAGE | Waddington's | CA$300
2. 2017-09-21 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, O.S.A., R.C.A., THE MERRY PIPES OF PAN, oil on panel, 9.25 ins x 9.5 ins; 24.1 cms x 24.1 cms | Waddington's | N/A
3. 2017-04-27 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1959\), CLIPPERS AT SUNSET, OIL ON CANVAS; SIGNED AND DATED 1937 LOWER RIGHT, 22.5" x 28" — 57.2 x 71.1 cm. | Waddington's | CA$840
4. 2017-02-02 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1958\) WHERE THE LAKE AND RIVER MEETOIL ON CANVAS; SIGNED AND DATED 1893 LOWER RIGHT; PARTIALLY TITLED VERSO9" x 22" — 22.9 x 55.9 cm.Estimate: $800—1,000 | Waddington's | CA$1,140
5. 2016-07-07 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1958\), UNTITLED \- THE QUIET POOL, OIL ON CANVAS BOARD; SIGNED AND DATED 1954 LOWER LEFT, 9" x 11.8" — 22.9 x 29.8 cm. | Waddington's | N/A
6. 2016-06-30 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1958\), A SYRIAN MAID, OIL ON BOARD; SIGNED LOWER RIGHT; SIGNED AND TITLED VERSO \- UNFRAMED, 8.2" x 6.8" — 20.8 x 17.3 cm. | Waddington's | CA$240
7. 2015-03-19 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1958\), BEATRICE MALTBY, 1922, PASTEL; SIGNED AND DATED 1922 LOWER RIGHT; TITLED TO LABEL VERSO, Sight 21" x 14" \- 53.3 x 35.6 cm. | Waddington's | CA$180
8. 2015-03-05 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, O.S.A., R.C.A., SUMMER REFLECTIONS, oil on canvas, 24 ins x 20 ins; 61 cms x 50.8 cms | Waddington's | CA$2,880
9. 2013-06-06 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, O.S.A., R.C.A. | Waddington's | N/A
10. 2013-06-03 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, O.S.A., R.C.A., SKETCH FOR PROSCENIUM ARCH, graphite and watercolour, image 4.5 ins x 16.5 ins; 11.3 cms x 41.3 cms | Waddington's | CA$3,776
11. 2012-11-26 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, O.S.A., R.C.A.RED CROSS KNIGHT, oil on board; signed, framed in an oval Literature: Literature: Joan Murray, "Northern Lights: Masterpieces of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven", Toronto, 1997, page 34, reproduced.Note: | Waddington's | CA$3,068
12. 2012-11-26 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, O.S.A., R.C.A.GIRLS AT PLAY, QUEEN'S PARK, TORONTO, oil on board; signed and dated 1950 16 ins x 20 ins; 40 cms x 50 cms Exhibited: 79th Annual Exhibition, The Ontario Society of Artists, March, 1951. | Waddington's | CA$4,720
13. 2012-09-13 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, O.S.A., R.C.A. | Waddington's | N/A
14. 2012-03-15 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, O.S.A., R.C.A. | Waddington's | CA$576
15. 2011-06-02 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, O.S.A., R.C.A. | Waddington's | N/A
16. 2010-12-01 | Frederick Sproston Challener | Walker's | CA$1,100
17. 2010-11-22 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, O.S.A., R.C.A.HAYING | Waddington's | CA$5,664
18. 2010-08-19 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER \(CANADIAN, 1869\-1958\) | Waddington's | CA$612
19. 2010-04-27 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER \(CANADIAN 1869\-1959\) | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | N/A
20. 2010-04-13 | Frederick Sproston Challener, RCA, OSA, CSPWC | Maynards Fine Art & Antiques | CA$4,500
21. 2009-12-09 | Frederick Sproston Challener, RCA, OSA, CSPWC | Maynards Fine Art & Antiques | N/A
22. 2009-11-24 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, MUSIC ROOM, pastel, 8 1/2 ins x 79 ins; 21.3 cms x 197.5 cms | Waddington's | CA$4,800
23. 2009-09-24 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, O.S.A., R.C.A. WOMEN | Waddington's | CA$576
24. 2009-09-24 | FREDERICK SPROSTON CHALLENER, O.S.A., R.C.A. | Waddington's | CA$660

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