# Hugh Douglas Hamilton - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T14:07:07.431Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 81
- Lots with prices: 61
- First auction date: 2000-11-30
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-04
- Median realised price: $2,800
- Price range: $460 to $547,738

## Market Takeaway
Hugh Douglas Hamilton shows solid auction liquidity with 81 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-04.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($2,800\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,300 and $4,800.
- 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: 14.8% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 72.1% (44 sales)
- $10,000\+: 13.1% (8 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $1,800
- Previous 12 months median: $3,700
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-04
- Days since latest sale: 76
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Adam's: 17 lots
- Sheppards: 12 lots
- Sotheby's: 12 lots
- Christie's: 11 lots
- Cheffins: 7 lots
- Bonhams: 6 lots
- Golding Young & Mawer: 2 lots
- Aalders Auctions: 1 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-04-10 | Hugh Douglas Hamilton \(Dublin 1740\-1808\) Portrait of Nathaniel Marchant, RA in the original carved frame | Bonhams | £5,500
2. 2018-11-08 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON, | Sheppards | €3,000
3. 2025-12-04 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON \(1740\-1808\) Portrait of Margaret Logan Henderson Pastel on paper, oval 24 x 19cm | Adam's | €1,800
4. 2025-03-26 | Hugh Douglas Hamilton \(Irish, 1739\-1808\) | Cheffins | £4,000
5. 2024-12-04 | Hugh Douglas Hamilton \(1740\-1808\) Portrait of Margaret Logan Henderson Pastel on paper, oval 24 x 19cm \(9½ x 7½\) | Adam's | N/A
6. 2024-12-04 | Hugh Douglas Hamilton \(1740\-1808\) Priscilla Wyatt Pastel on paper, 26 x 20.5cm \(10¼ x 8\) Signed | Adam's | N/A
7. 2024-05-01 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON \(1740\-1808\) A bust portrait of Pricilla Wyatt \(Née Edgell\) Pastel , 25.5x 20.5 cm, oval Signed lower left, and with the Wyatt family coat of arms to the right, and inscribed on the reverse | Adam's | N/A
8. 2024-05-01 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON | Sheppards | €1,200
9. 2024-04-30 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON \(1739 \- 1808\) | Sheppards | €3,700
10. 2023-10-10 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON \(1740\-1808\) Portrait of a Young Boy with Red Hair, Dressed in Van Dyck Costume Pastel on paper, 24 x 19.5 cm. \(9.5 x 7.6\) Signed and dated 1772 | Adam's | €1,400
11. 2023-04-26 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON \(1739\-1808\) Portrait of John Ponsonby \(1713 \- 1787\), small half length with powdered hair, blue coat and white stock Pastel over crayon, 24 x 19cm Old label preserved verso Rt. Honble John Ponsonby died 1789 aged 76 T | Adam's | €2,600
12. 2023-03-17 | Hugh Douglas Hamilton \(British, 1739\-1808\) | Hindman | $5,500
13. 2023-03-01 | Hugh Douglas Hamilton \(1740 \- 1808\) Portrait of Lady Caroline Spencer \(1763 \- 1813\) Oval, pastel on paper, 23.5 x 19cm \(9¼ x 7½\) Signed indistinctly LL, inscribed verso and with a trade label for 'Royal County Depository, Reading, C &G Ayers, Ltd | Adam's | €2,800
14. 2022-09-07 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON \(1739 \- 1808\). A PAIR OF GEORGE III OVAL PORTRAIT PASTEL DRAWINGS | Hutchinson Scott Limited | £720
15. 2021-08-17 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON \(1740\-1808\) | Sheppards | €751
16. 2021-03-30 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON \(IRISH B. circa 1739\-1808\) | Chiswick Auctions | £3,125
17. 2020-11-05 | Hugh Douglas Hamilton \(Dublin 1740\-1808\) Pastels, Pair of portraits, Male and Female. Image 24 cm x 19 cm. Note: See a single very similar portrait sold by Bonhams, 25th April 2018, Lot 285. | Hannam's Auctioneers | £3,200
18. 2018-11-27 |  HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON \(1740\-1808\) | Sheppards | N/A
19. 2018-10-03 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON \(IRISH, 1740\-1808\) Lady Caroline Spencer, bust\-leng | Bonhams | £5,000
20. 2018-07-04 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON \| Portrait of a gentleman wearing a plum\-coloured coat | Sotheby's | N/A
21. 2018-07-04 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON \(DUBLIN 1740\-1808\) \- Portrait of Emilia Olivia, Duchess of Leinster | Bonhams | £43,750
22. 2018-06-27 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON | Sheppards | N/A
23. 2018-04-25 | HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON \(DUBLIN 1740\-1808\) Portrait of Mr J. Mercer, bus | Bonhams | £2,500
24. 2018-01-31 | ANNA TONELLI \| Portrait of Miss Rebecca Probert, after Hugh Douglas Hamilton  | Sotheby's | $2,200

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