# Harden S. Melville - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T09:48:36.879Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 61
- Lots with prices: 33
- First auction date: 2003-12-02
- Latest auction date: 2024-06-04
- Median realised price: $280
- Price range: $60 to $1,000

## Market Takeaway
Harden S. Melville has 61 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $280. 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 \($280\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200 to $400\) 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: 97% (32 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 3% (1 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: $200
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-06-04
- Days since latest sale: 694
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 12 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 5 lots
- Gorringes: 4 lots
- Reeman Dansie: 4 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Ewbank's: 3 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 3 lots
- Rowley Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers: 3 lots
- Tennants: 3 lots
- Cheffins: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-06-04 | Harden Sidney Melville \(1824\-1894\), frightened horses and their mounts gathered beneath a thunderstorm, waterc | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £200
2. 2024-04-07 | Harden Sidney Melville | Four Seasons Auction Gallery | $100
3. 2024-04-07 | Harden Sidney Melville | Four Seasons Auction Gallery | N/A
4. 2023-07-19 | Harden Sidney Melville,  Horses pulling a cart along the shoreline  | Roseberys | £300
5. 2022-02-01 | Harden Sidney Melville \(1824\-1894\) Oil On Canvas | Akiba Galleries | $200
6. 2022-01-08 | Harden Sidney Melville \(British, 1824\-1881\) | Fontaine's Auction Gallery | $500
7. 2021-06-17 | HARDEN SIDNEY MELVILLE \(BRITISH 1824\-1894\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
8. 2021-02-07 | Harden Sidney Melville \(1824\-1881\) Oil \(United Kingdom\) | Main Auction Galleries | $200
9. 2021-02-06 | HARDEN SIDNEY MELVILLE \(1824\-1881\) A PAINTING, "Watering the Work Horses," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $350
10. 2020-12-17 | HARDEN SIDNEY MELVILLE \(English, 1824\-1881\). CROSSING THE STREAM, Oil on canvas. | Sloans & Kenyon | $800
11. 2019-06-17 | Harden Sidney Melville \(act. 1837\-1881\), Cavalry Sergeant, oil on canvas, 7 | Piers Motley Auctions | £150
12. 2018-02-27 | HARDEN SIDNEY MELVILLE \(ACT. 1837\-1881\), PLOUGHING WITH HORSES, signed lowe | Thomas Watson | £65
13. 2017-05-03 | Harden Sidney Melville \(act.1837\-1881\) British. Figures in a Horse Drawn Cart, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 16" x 20". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £380
14. 2017-02-22 | HARDEN SIDNEY MELVILLE \(19th century\) British At The Smithy Oil on canvas S | Rowley Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers | N/A
15. 2017-01-25 | Harden Sidney Melville "The Timber Wagon" oil on | Dallas Auction Gallery | $1,000
16. 2016-11-23 | Harden Sidney Melville \(fl. 1837 \- 1881\), oil on canvas \- a horse\-drawn troika in snowy landscape, signed, in gilt frame, 28cm x 44cm | Reeman Dansie | £170
17. 2016-10-12 | Harden Sidney Melville \(act.1837\-1881\) British. 'The Logging Team', with Figures, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 20" x 30". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £400
18. 2016-08-03 | Harden Sidney Melville \(act. 1837 \- 1881\), pair oils on canvas \- horse\-draw | Reeman Dansie | N/A
19. 2016-05-25 | HARDEN SIDNEY MELVILLE \(flourished 1837\-1891\) Horses Outside a Smithy Oil | Rowley Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers | N/A
20. 2015-11-25 | Harden Sidney Melville \(act. 1837 \- 1881\), oil on canvas \- a hunting m | Reeman Dansie | £250
21. 2015-11-18 | HARDEN SIDNEY MELVILLE \(flourished 1837\-1891\) Brit | Rowley Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers | N/A
22. 2015-02-26 | Harden Sidney Melville \(fl.1837\-1881\) Plough horses watering at a trough, 20 x 30in. | Gorringes | £440
23. 2015-01-25 | Harden Sidney Melville \(British, fl.1855\-1904\) and Hendrick Pieter Koekkoek \(Dutch, 1843\-1890\) An open landscape with a horse cart and figures on a track 24 x 42in | Bonhams | N/A
24. 2013-12-12 | Harden Sidney Melville, Pull up, Oil on canvas, signed, framed | Ewbank's | £220

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