# James Nasmyth - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T23:45:55.330Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 27
- Lots with prices: 20
- First auction date: 2001-01-17
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-09
- Median realised price: $475
- Price range: $180 to $16,920

## Market Takeaway
James Nasmyth has 27 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $475. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. 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 \($475\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($350 to $1,700\) 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: 65% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 30% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 5% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $850
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-09
- Days since latest sale: 201
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 7 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 3 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 3 lots
- Gorringes: 2 lots
- Sworders: 2 lots
- Andrew Jones Auctions: 1 lots
- Bassenge Auctions: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Dominic Winter Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-09 | JAMES NASMYTH \(1808\-1890\) & JAMES CARPENTER \(ACTIVE 1880s\). The Moon: Consi | Christie's | $3,810
2. 2025-05-28 | James Nasmyth \(1808\-1890\) | Sworders | £850
3. 2024-02-27 | James Nasmyth \- Christopher Columbus and his son Diego outside the convent of La Rabida an illustration from 'Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus'  | Roseberys | £180
4. 2024-02-13 | JAMES NASMYTH \(SCOTTISH 1808\-1890\) PENSHURST \- JULY 18TH, 1869 | Lyon & Turnbull | £360
5. 2023-12-06 | Lunar Photography: Three\-quarter view of the moon and constructed view of the moon's surface | Bassenge Auctions | N/A
6. 2023-10-18 | JAMES NASMYTH \(SCOTTISH 1808\-1890\) PENSHURST \- JULY 18TH, 1869 | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
7. 2022-07-07 | James Nasmyth \(Scottish, 1808\-1890\) | Martel Maides | £350
8. 2022-03-09 | James Nasmyth \(1808\-1890\) Scottish, An extensive mountain river landscape with a horse and figure crossing a b | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £200
9. 2021-12-12 | James Nasmyth \(British, 1808\-1890\), Renaissance scientist, 1840, ink on paper, 6 1/4 x 7 3/4in \(16 x 19.5cm\) | Andrew Jones Auctions | $250
10. 2021-12-01 | James Hall Nasmyth \(1808\-1890\) and James Carpenter \(1840\-1899\) | Chiswick Auctions | £550
11. 2021-09-15 | James Nasmyth \(1808\-1890\) | Sworders | N/A
12. 2020-02-05 | James Nasmyth \(Scottish 1808\-1890\) Highland Mary | Lyon & Turnbull | £1,700
13. 2019-05-15 | James Nasmyth \(British, 1808\-1890\) The Alchemist 23 x 29 cm. \(9 1/16 x 11 7/16 in.\) | Bonhams | £2,167
14. 2013-05-23 | James Nasmyth \(1808\-1890\) British. Figures in a | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
15. 2012-12-12 | \[ Books \] | Dominic Winter Auctions | £400
16. 2012-11-22 | James Nasmyth \(1808\-1890\) British. 'Path Through | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
17. 2011-09-24 | JAMES NASMYTH \(SCOTTISH, 1808\-1890\) LANDSCAPE Oil on panel: 9 x 12 3/4 in. | Potomack Company | $475
18. 2011-09-08 | James Nasmyth \(1808\-1890\) Yorkshire landscape with castle, 8.5 x 11.5in. | Gorringes | £350
19. 2011-01-25 | JAMES NASMYTH | Sotheby's | $1,375
20. 2010-03-17 | James Nasmyth \(1808\-1890\) | Christie's | £3,000
21. 2008-07-24 | James Nasmyth \(1808\-1890\) A Poor Alchemist 4.5 x 5.75in. | Gorringes | £320
22. 2007-07-03 | A citadel above a river | Christie's | N/A
23. 2020-01-25 | James Hall Nasmyth, 1808\-1890, 2 counterparts:landscapes | Henry's Auktionshaus | €620
24. 2009-11-18 | James Nasmyth \(1808\-1890\) | Christie's | N/A

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