# John Christian Schetky - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T12:38:06.639Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 58
- Lots with prices: 43
- First auction date: 2004-01-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-04-30
- Median realised price: $700
- Price range: $20 to $106,250

## Market Takeaway
John Christian Schetky has 58 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $700. 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 \($700\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($234 to $2,040\) 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: 65.1% (28 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 25.6% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 9.3% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $1,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-04-30
- Days since latest sale: 366
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 14 lots
- Christie's: 10 lots
- Sotheby's: 7 lots
- Claydon Auctioneers: 4 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 3 lots
- Adam's: 2 lots
- Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates: 2 lots
- Keys Fine Art Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Barridoff Auctions: 1 lots
- Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-04-30 | John Christian Schetky \(British, 1778\-1874\) The Battle of the Saintes, 12th April 1782 | Bonhams | £6,000
2. 2024-08-17 | John Christian Schetky \(Br. 1778\-1874\), Action Between Lively and Glorioso off Cadiz, Oil on canvas, framed | Barridoff Auctions | $1,000
3. 2023-11-17 | John Christian Schetky \(Scottish, 1778\-1874\) | Hindman | N/A
4. 2022-10-19 | JOHN CHRISTIAN SCHETKY \(1778\-1874\) | Olympia Auctions | N/A
5. 2020-06-11 | JOHN CHRISTIAN SCHETKY, Scotland, 1778\-1874, "H.M.S. Active working out of Portsmouth Harbour"., Watercolor, 12.75" x 19.75" sight.... | Eldred's | $350
6. 2019-12-12 | John Christian Schetky \(1778\-1874\) The bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816 oil on canvas 36 x 66 in. \(91.5 x 167.7 cm.\) | Christie's | £106,250
7. 2019-05-01 | John Christian Schetky \(1778\-1874\) British. A Two Masted Ship on Rough Seas, Watercolour, Signed, and Inscribed on the mount, 6.25" x 8.75". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £140
8. 2018-04-18 | JOHN CHRISTIAN SCHETKY \(BRITISH, 1778\-1874\) Captain Richard Bowen’s 38\-gun frigate Te | Bonhams | £27,500
9. 2016-10-05 | John Christian Schetky \(British, 1778\-1874\) Marseilles | Bonhams | £625
10. 2016-04-13 | John Christian Schetky \(British, 1778\-1874\) Portsmouth Harbour. Together with another work on paper by the same hand depicting the Battle of Algiers. \(2\) | Bonhams | £625
11. 2016-04-13 | John Christian Schetky \(British, 1778\-1874\) Believed to be the Leith smack Queen Charlotte. Together with a watercolour by the same hand of a Dutch ship in a squall. \(2\) | Bonhams | £625
12. 2016-04-13 | John Christian Schetky \(British, 1778\-1874\) Recollection of a van de Velde at Hampton Court, August 28 1837 | Bonhams | £625
13. 2016-04-13 | John Christian Schetky \(British, 1778\-1874\) 'Launching Day': a Royal Navy frigate ready for launching at Pembroke Dock | Bonhams | £625
14. 2016-04-13 | John Christian Schetky \(British, 1778\-1874\) Marseilles | Bonhams | N/A
15. 2016-04-09 | JOHN CHRISTIAN SCHETKY \(SCOTTISH, 1778\-1874\) REPRESENTATION OF H.M.S. SHANNON COMMENCING THE BATTLE. | Potomack Company | N/A
16. 2015-09-12 | John Christian Schetky \(1778\-1874\) Marine School Sepia watercolour Warships and other vess | Claydon Auctioneers | £65
17. 2015-09-12 | John Christian Schetky \(1778\-1874\) Marine School Sepia watercolour Shipping in choppy seas | Claydon Auctioneers | £180
18. 2014-08-23 | JOHN CHRISTIAN SCHETKY \(BRITISH, 1778\-1874\) MARINE PRINT BOOK | Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates | $46 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-christian-schetky-british-1778-1874-marine-print-book-1201-c-56b6175562
19. 2014-08-23 | JOHN CHRISTIAN SCHETKY \(BRITISH, 1778\-1874\), ATTRIBUTED, MARINE DRAWING | Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates | $287 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-christian-schetky-british-1778-1874-attributed-marine-drawing-1183-c-24670e3c18
20. 2014-06-05 | John Christian Schetky \(1778\-1874\), British | Crow's Auction Gallery Ltd | £500
21. 2014-04-12 | John Christian Schetky \(1778\-1874\) Marine School | Claydon Auctioneers | £100
22. 2014-02-08 | John Christian Schetky \(1778\-1874\) Marine School | Claydon Auctioneers | £70
23. 2013-06-19 | John Christian Schetky \(1778 \- 1874\), pencil and | Reeman Dansie | N/A
24. 2013-04-24 | John Christian Schetky \(British, 1778\-1874\) | Bonhams | N/A

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