# James Smillie - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T16:04:13.091Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 12
- First auction date: 1999-01-07
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-28
- Median realised price: $720
- Price range: $25 to $130,700

## Market Takeaway
James Smillie has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $720. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($720\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($250 to $3,000\) 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% (6 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 41.7% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 8.3% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $250
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-28
- Days since latest sale: 153
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- RoGallery: 6 lots
- Broward Auction Gallery LLC: 5 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Winter Associates, Inc.: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 1 lots
- Litchfield Auctions: 1 lots
- STAIR: 1 lots
- Skinner: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-05 | JAMES D. SMILLIE \- WATERCOLOR LANDSCAPE | Litchfield Auctions | $250
2. 2023-01-02 | James Smillie \(NY,CA,1833\-1909\) oil painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | $8,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-james-smillie-ny-ca-1833-1909-oil-painting-antique-519-c-b894cfebab
3. 2022-10-09 | James Smillie \(NY,CA,1833\-1909\) oil painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-james-smillie-ny-ca-1833-1909-oil-painting-antique-465-c-23641b9abb
4. 2022-07-03 | James Smillie \(NY,CA,1833\-1909\) oil painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-james-smillie-ny-ca-1833-1909-oil-painting-antique-383-c-87c4c9db9b
5. 2022-04-17 | James Smillie \(NY,CA,1833\-1909\) oil painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-james-smillie-ny-ca-1833-1909-oil-painting-antique-376-c-d3543ba8cf
6. 2022-01-02 | James Smillie \(NY,CA,1833\-1909\) oil painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-james-smillie-ny-ca-1833-1909-oil-painting-antique-341-c-db74b1fad7
7. 2025-11-28 | JAMES SMILLIE, WHAT O'CLOCK IS IT?, ETCHING | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-james-smillie-what-o-clock-is-it-etching-1389-c-9fe389f26c
8. 2024-12-10 | \(AMERICAN WEST.\) Albert Bierstadt; and James Smillie \(engraver\). The Rocky Mountains \(Lander's Peak\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-american-west-albert-bierstadt-and-james-smillie-engraver-the-rocky-mountains-lander-s-peak-222-c-4b4419eba3
9. 2024-11-29 | James Smillie, What O'Clock is it?, Etching | RoGallery | N/A
10. 2024-01-01 | JAMES SMILLIE, WHAT O'CLOCK IS IT?, ETCHING | RoGallery | N/A
11. 2023-12-07 | \(AMERICAN WEST.\) Albert Bierstadt; and James Smillie \(engraver\). The Rocky Mountains. | Swann Auction Galleries | $4,250 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-american-west-albert-bierstadt-and-james-smillie-engraver-the-rocky-mountains-238-c-e304c0cbb3
12. 2019-09-26 | James Smillie Etching \[Coastal Scene\] | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $40
13. 2018-08-23 | James Smillie, What O'Clock is it?, Etching | RoGallery | N/A
14. 2016-12-07 | James Smillie, What O'Clock is it?, Etching | RoGallery | N/A
15. 2015-06-20 | JAMES SMILLIE \(American, 1833\-1909\). A VOICE FROM THE CLIFFS \(AFTER WINSLOW HOMER\), signed in pencil lower margin. Etching. | Sloans & Kenyon | $600
16. 2014-12-11 | James Smillie, What O'Clock is it?, Etching | RoGallery | N/A
17. 2014-11-14 | James Smillie \(1807\-1885\), After John F. Kensett: Mount Washington, From the Valley Conway | STAIR | $25
18. 2008-09-15 | James Smillie \(American 1807\-1885\) four | Winter Associates, Inc. | $2,200
19. 2008-05-19 | James Smillie \(American, 1807\-1885\), four engravings after Thomas Cole \(American, 1801\-1848\), "Voyage of Life" series, c. 1850, including "Childhood", "Youth", "Manhood" and "Old Age", published by James H. Earle and printed by J. H. Daniels, framed | Winter Associates, Inc. | N/A
20. 2008-02-23 | James Smillie \(American, 1807\-1885\) after Thomas | Neal Auction Company | $270
21. 2008-02-23 | James Smillie \(American, 1807\-1885\) and Robert | Neal Auction Company | $720
22. 2004-05-18 | James Smillie \(1833\-1909\) | Christie's | $130,700
23. 1999-01-07 | James Smillie \(Anglo/American, 1807\-1885 after Albert Bierstadt american 1830\-1902 the Rocky Mountains 1866 Identified within the matrix Engraving sheet size 18.25 x 28.5in sight framed | Skinner | $1,955 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-james-smillie-anglo-american-1807-1885-after-albert-bierstadt-american-1830-1902-the-rocky-mountains-1866-identified-within-the-matrix-engraving-sheet-size-18-25-x-28-5in-sight-framed-158-c-ky6ea48b8j

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