# James Smetham - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T06:54:09.744Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 29
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2001-09-06
- Latest auction date: 2025-01-21
- Median realised price: $720
- Price range: $125 to $12,500

## Market Takeaway
James Smetham has 29 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $720. 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 \($720\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($400 to $4,000\) 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: 50% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 43.8% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 6.3% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-01-21
- Days since latest sale: 463
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 9 lots
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Cheffins: 3 lots
- DuMouchelles: 2 lots
- Gorringes: 2 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 2 lots
- Anderson\-Garland: 1 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Reeman Dansie: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-01-21 | JAMES SMETHAM \(BRITISH, 1821\-1889\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
2. 2023-02-17 | James Smetham \(British, 1821\-1889\) Oil On Panel, Rustic Courtship, H 11'' W 9.5'' | DuMouchelles | $150
3. 2022-12-15 | James Smetham \(British, 1821\-1889\) Oil On Panel, Rustic Courtship, H 11'' W 9.5'' | DuMouchelles | $150
4. 2021-03-23 | James Smetham, British 1821\-1886\- The Saving of the Soul; oil on board, signed and dated indist | Roseberys | £1,200
5. 2019-07-11 | James Smetham \(1821\-1889\) Flora oil on canvas 15 ½ x 9 7/8 in. \(39.5 x 24.5 cm.\) | Christie's | £8,750
6. 2018-11-28 | James Smetham \(British, 1821–1889\) Geese in a landscape signed lower left "J Smetham" | Cheffins | £440
7. 2018-09-12 | James Smetham \(British, 1821–1889\) Geese in a landscape signed lower left "J Smetham" | Cheffins | N/A
8. 2018-07-12 | JAMES SMETHAM \| Piping Down the Valleys | Sotheby's | N/A
9. 2016-12-15 | JAMES SMETHAM \| The Chase | Sotheby's | £4,000
10. 2016-09-21 | James Smetham \(1821\-1889\) Young men and women outside a cottage 3 x 4in. | Gorringes | N/A
11. 2015-12-17 | JAMES SMETHAM \| Pandora | Sotheby's | £12,500
12. 2015-07-15 | JAMES SMETHAM \| Scraps from Sketchbooks | Sotheby's | N/A
13. 2014-06-17 | James Smetham \(1821\-1889\) "PAGAN RITES" signed and dated 1867; with gallery label verso oil on panel 29 x 39.5cms; 11 1/2 x 15 1/2in. | Anderson\-Garland | £600
14. 2013-06-19 | James Smetham \(1821 \- 1889\), fascinating | Reeman Dansie | £720
15. 2011-11-01 | JAMES SMETHAM \(BRITISH 1821\-1889\) CHRIST AT EMMAUS 50cm x 39cm \(19.7in x 15.4in\) | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-james-smetham-british-1821-1889-christ-at-emmaus-50cm-x-39cm-19-7in-x-15-4in-31-c-70b6c22a84
16. 2011-11-01 | JAMES SMETHAM \(BRITISH 1821\-1889\) THE ROSE OF DAWN 61cm x 35cm \(24in x 13.8in\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £3,200
17. 2011-09-08 | James Smetham \(1821\-1889\) Tales from the sea, 9.5 x 15.5in. | Gorringes | £400
18. 2010-11-17 | James Smetham \(1821\-1889\) | Christie's | £1,250
19. 2010-06-16 | James Smetham \(1821\-1889\) | Christie's | £4,750
20. 2007-10-30 | James Smetham \(British, 1821\-1889\) Tales from the sea | Bonhams | N/A
21. 2007-10-30 | James Smetham \(British, 1821\-1889\) A figure in distress by the shore | Bonhams | £432
22. 2007-10-01 | A young woman seated | Christie's | $125
23. 2007-06-12 | James Smetham \(British, 1821\-1889\) | Bonhams | N/A
24. 2006-11-30 | James Smetham \(English, 1821\-1899\) Prospero and Miranda oil on board24 x 35cm Provenance: Christie's, Sale 24 October 1977, lot 58, from the collection of Dennis Smetham, the artist's grandson From the collection of Matthew Pryor | Cheffins | N/A

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