# James Sanford Ellsworth - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T12:41:05.359Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 20
- First auction date: 2007-01-18
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-22
- Median realised price: $3,250
- Price range: $100 to $24,000

## Market Takeaway
James Sanford Ellsworth has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,250. 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 \($3,250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,071 to $6,765\) 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: 20% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 70% (14 sales)
- $10,000\+: 10% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $9,500
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-22
- Days since latest sale: 283
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Skinner: 6 lots
- Eldred's: 3 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians: 1 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 1 lots
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 1 lots
- Hindman: 1 lots
- Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates: 1 lots
- Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-07-22 | JAMES SANFORD ELLSWORTH \(Connecticut/Massachusetts, 1802\-1874\), Miniature profile portrait of Mrs. Elvira Warriner dressed in blue and holding a pink rose., Watercolor and pencil on paper, 2.5" x 3.5" sight. Framed 4.5" | Eldred's | $24,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-james-sanford-ellsworth-connecticut-massachusetts-1802-1874-miniature-profile-portrait-of-mrs-elvira-warriner-dressed-in-blue-and-holding-a-pink-rose-watercolor-and-pencil-on-paper-2-5-x-3-5-sight-framed-4-5-7017-c-cfd413ea3d
2. 2025-07-22 | JAMES SANFORD ELLSWORTH \(Connecticut, 1802\-1874\), Miniature profile portraits of Mr. & Mrs. C.T. Gunn, Watercolors and pencils on paper, 2.75" x 2.25" sight. Framed 3.75" x 3.25". | Eldred's | $9,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-james-sanford-ellsworth-connecticut-1802-1874-miniature-profile-portraits-of-mr-mrs-c-t-gunn-watercolors-and-pencils-on-paper-2-75-x-2-25-sight-framed-3-75-x-3-25-7016-c-a2347c98a5
3. 2024-03-14 | James Sanford Ellsworth \(American, 1802\-1874\) | Hindman | $700
4. 2022-10-07 | James Sanford Ellsworth watercolor portraits | Pook & Pook Inc. | $900
5. 2021-12-04 | James Sanford Ellsworth watercolor | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $10,000
6. 2021-07-02 | JAMES SANFORD ELLSWORTH \(1802\-1874\), ATTRIBUTED, FOLK ART MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN | Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates | $1,553
7. 2021-04-01 | JAMES SANFORD ELLSWORTH \(Connecticut, 1802\-1874\), Portraits of two children, presumably brother and sister., Watercolors on paper, 4.5" x 3.5". Framed 6.75" x 9.75". | Eldred's | $3,250
8. 2019-11-03 | JAMES SANFORD ELLSWORTH \(Connecticut, 1802\-1874\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $3,600
9. 2018-03-30 | attributed James Sanford Ellsworth pastel | Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers | $100
10. 2017-01-21 | JAMES SANFORD ELLSWORTH \(1802 \- 1874\) \| Miniature Portrait of Elderly Woman | Sotheby's | $625
11. 2015-08-02 | W/C of older man and woman | Willis Henry Auctions Inc. | $9,360
12. 2014-03-02 | James Sanford Ellsworth \(American, 1802/03\-1874\) Small Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Ruffled Bonnet, c. 1845. Unsigned. Watercolor on h | Skinner | $1,071
13. 2014-03-02 | James Sanford Ellsworth \(American, 1802/03\-1874\) Portrait Miniature of a Gentleman, Reportedly a Self\-portrait of the Artist, c. 1840s. | Skinner | $8,610
14. 2014-03-02 | James Sanford Ellsworth \(American, 1802/03\-1874\) Pair of Portrait Miniatures of Simon and Margaret Douglas Bottum. Signed on front "Ell | Skinner | $3,444
15. 2014-03-02 | James Sanford Ellsworth \(American, 1802/03\-1874\) Pair of Portrait Miniatures of Samuel A. Gager and Wealthy Ann Huntington Gager, c. 18 | Skinner | $6,765
16. 2014-03-02 | James Sanford Ellsworth \(American, 1802/03\-1874\) Pair of Portrait Miniatures of a Boy and a Girl,c. 1845. Signed "J.S. ELLSWORTH PX." b | Skinner | $3,198
17. 2011-11-19 | James Sanford Ellsworth \(1802\-1874\), portrait of a young lady holding a book, Watercolor on paper, framed. | Freeman's \| Hindman | $2,625
18. 2011-11-05 | James Sanford Ellsworth \(American, 1802/03\-1874\) Portraits of Cyrus Blount of Boston and His Three Children. c. 1840\-45. Unsigned, s... | Skinner | $3,081
19. 2011-08-06 | James Sanford Ellsworth \(1802\-1874\), attributed Miniature portrait of a young girl in a yellow dress seated in profile New England, c.1840 Watercolor on embossed paper in the original mahogany frame, 4 1/2" x 4" overall | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $4,720
20. 2007-10-01 | Portrait of a child with a bird and cat | Christie's | $3,250
21. 2007-01-19 | JAMES SANFORD ELLSWORTH \(1802/3\-1874?\) | Sotheby's | N/A
22. 2007-01-18 | James Sanford Ellsworth \(1802\-1874\), Mid 19th century | Christie's | N/A

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