# Harry Rutherford - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T06:13:14.240Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 110
- Lots with prices: 70
- First auction date: 2003-10-17
- Latest auction date: 2025-05-21
- Median realised price: $320
- Price range: $40 to $16,470

## Market Takeaway
Harry Rutherford shows solid auction liquidity with 110 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $320. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-05-21.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($320\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $120 and $600.
- 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: 88.6% (62 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 10% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 1.4% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $75
- Previous 12 months median: $400
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-05-21
- Days since latest sale: 273
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Capes Dunn & Co.: 86 lots
- Wilson55: 5 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 3 lots
- Golding Young & Mawer: 2 lots
- Gorringes: 2 lots
- Adam Partridge Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Batemans Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-05-21 | HARRY RUTHERFORD \(1903\-1989\); watercolour, church in landscape, signed, 24 x 35cm, framed and glazed. | Adam Partridge Auctioneers | £75
2. 2024-09-28 | Harry Rutherford \(1903 \- 1985\) Sickert School. Pair of Sketches/Studies; one depicting a pair of gen | Wilkinson's Auctioneers | £100
3. 2024-09-11 | Harry Rutherford,  Queen’s Gate Place Mews, London, 1955;  | Roseberys | £400
4. 2024-07-17 | Harry Rutherford \(British, 1903\-1985\) Winter Landscape, Mossley | Bonhams | £1,700
5. 2021-03-24 | Harry Rutherford \(1903\-1985\) British, A rocky landscape, watercolour, signed l.r. H Rutherford, 10" x 14". Pro | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £70
6. 2021-03-24 | Harry Rutherford \(1903\-1985\) British, A Northern landscape, watercolour, Signed l.r. H Rutherford, 10" x 14". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £70
7. 2021-02-17 | Harry Rutherford \(1903\-1985\) British, A half\-length portrait of a boy in a sailor's uniform, oil on canvas, si | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £240
8. 2020-07-02 | Harry Rutherford, Snooker in the Officers' Mess, ink. | Wilson55 | £45
9. 2020-07-02 | Harry Rutherford, Female portrait, pencil. | Wilson55 | £40
10. 2017-06-27 | Harry Rutherford \(British 1903\-1985\) \- My Chair, Cat and Hat, 1960 | Dreweatts 1759 | £3,348
11. 2017-06-13 | HARRY RUTHERFORD \(1903\-1985\). "Camden Town, 1933". oil on canvas, with further study of a fairground verso. signed lower right. further inscribed and titled on the frame, dated 1933. 60 x 75.5 cm. framed. Provenance: Private Collection London, purchased 1977,  With Leva Gallery, London. FOOTNOTE: A little known work painted after the artist’s move to Camden, London in the early 1930’s to continue his studies and association with Walter Sickert \[1860 \- 1942\] In 1926 in Manchester, Rutherford took over the running of Walter Sickert’s Painting School and their friendship was to be lifelong. Sickert later described Rutherford as “My intellectual heir and successor’. This striking exterior street scene is bathed in mid\-day light and compositionally closely resembles “Camden Town’ by Rutherford in the Royal Academy Collections. Populated with figures in transit casting shadows, to the right of the composition is a solitary single male figure in top\-hat, observing the scene.  It has been suggested that this figure is a depiction by Rutherford of his mentor, the artist Walter Sickert.  Between 1927 and 1934, Sickert had established the last of his painting schools at No 1 Highbury Place in Camden, and Rutherford may well have used these studios at this time. He would later set up his own studio after Sickert departed London for Broadstairs in 1934.  During WW2 Rutherford’s studio was obliterated during a bombing raid with the loss of a considerable body of his Camden work making this work a rare example of his output at this time. The incomplete fairground composition verso may relate to a series of works Rutherford undertook at Gorleston on Sea near Great Yarmouth in 1932, where together with his brother Bob he ran concert parties at the Pavillion as part of the summer entertainments, and spent some time painting scenic backgrounds. \[See ‘Great Yarmouth’ 1932. The Rutherford Gallery \]. Rutherford moved to London the following year to re\-establish his painting career and the re\-use of the canvas would seem consistent with the artist’s approach at this time.  In a rare later photograph of Rutherford taken after his return to Manchester in the 1950’s, he is seen seated in his studio. On the mantlepiece is a copy of the 1923 studio portrait of Sickert by Edward Drummond Young \[ and later reproduced in oil by Sylvia Gosse in her noted work \] When he left school at the age of 14, Rutherford sought to develop his drawing skills and alongside fellow artist LS Lowry attended evening classes at the Manchester School of Art. Whilst there are echoes of Lowry’s figurative depictions in this work by Rutherford alongside the undoubted influence of Sickert, it is clearly a singular work by an important British artist. \(May be subject to Artist's Resale Rights\) | Chiswick Auctions | £16,470
12. 2014-11-25 | HARRY RUTHERFORD \(1903\-1985\) PENCIL DRAWING 'Mary | Capes Dunn & Co. | N/A
13. 2014-11-25 | HARRY RUTHERFORD \(1903\-1985\) OIL PAINTING ON CANV | Capes Dunn & Co. | £300
14. 2014-11-25 | HARRY RUTHERFORD \(1903\-1985\) OIL PAINTING ON BOAR | Capes Dunn & Co. | N/A
15. 2014-11-25 | HARRY RUTHERFORD \(1903\-1985\) OIL PAINTING ON BOAR | Capes Dunn & Co. | £400
16. 2014-10-23 | Harry Rutherford \(1903\-1985\) Deal, 5.5 x 7.5in. | Gorringes | £220
17. 2013-02-02 | Harry Rutherford \(1903\-1985\): a pencil drawing of | Batemans Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
18. 2012-10-23 | HARRY RUTHERFORD \(1903\-1985\) OIL PAINTING ON BOARD Beach scene with figures in foreground, village and trees in the background signed 11" x 15" \(28cm x 38cm\) \(No. 29 in the 'Studio of Works Catalogue\) GBP | Capes Dunn & Co. | £360
19. 2012-10-23 | HARRY RUTHERFORD \(1903\-1985\) OIL PAINTING ON ARTIST BOARD 'Back garden, Nelson Street, Hyde' 14" x 18" \(35.5cm x 45.5cm\) \(No. 311 in the 'Studio of Works Catalogue\) GBP | Capes Dunn & Co. | £260
20. 2012-10-23 | HARRY RUTHERFORD \(1903\-1985\) OIL PAINTING ON BOARD 'French hill village' signed 12" x 19" \(30.5cm x 48.5cm\) \(No. 26B in the 'Studio of Works Catalogue\) GBP | Capes Dunn & Co. | N/A
21. 2012-10-23 | HARRY RUTHERFORD \(1903\-1985\) OIL PAINTING ON ARTIST BOARD Coast scene with quay and village 10 1/4" x 14 1/4" \(26cm x 36cm\) \(No. 39A in the 'Studio of Works Catalogue\) GBP | Capes Dunn & Co. | £180
22. 2012-10-23 | HARRY RUTHERFORD \(1903\-1985\) OIL PAINTING ON ARTISTS BOARD Landscape farm buildings and stream signed 10" x 14" \(25.5cm x 35.5cm\) \(No. 40 in the 'Studio of Works Catalogue\) GBP | Capes Dunn & Co. | £180
23. 2012-10-23 | HARRY RUTHERFORD \(1903\-1985\) OIL PAINTING ON PANEL Landscape with by a lake in the foreground 16" x 20" \(40.5cm x 51cm\) \(No. 17 in the 'Studio of Works Catalogue\) GBP | Capes Dunn & Co. | N/A
24. 2012-10-23 | HARRY RUTHERFORD \(1903\-1985\) OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS LAID DOWN ON BOARD Continental hillside townscape with figures in the foreground 13" x 15 1/2" \(33cm x 39.5cm\) \(No. 297 in the 'Studio of Works Catalogue\) GBP | Capes Dunn & Co. | £320

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