# John Ernest Aitken - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T03:31:15.862Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 106
- Lots with prices: 66
- First auction date: 2004-01-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-06
- Median realised price: $700
- Price range: $40 to $3,840

## Market Takeaway
John Ernest Aitken shows solid auction liquidity with 106 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $700. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-06.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($700\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $300 and $1,560.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 60.6% (40 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 39.4% (26 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 6
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $50
- Previous 12 months median: $360
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-06
- Days since latest sale: 104
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 43 lots
- Christie's: 8 lots
- Leonard Joel: 7 lots
- Gorringes: 6 lots
- Waddington's: 6 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 5 lots
- Mallams: 4 lots
- Keys Fine Art Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood: 2 lots
- Capes Dunn & Co.: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-12-29 | John Ernest Aitken \(UK,1881\-1957\) watercolor painting | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | $360
2. 2025-11-06 | JOHN ERNEST AITKEN, A LANDSCAPE WITH A WINDMILL BESIDE A CANAL, | Leonard Joel | A$50
3. 2025-10-23 | JOHN ERNEST AITKEN, A LANDSCAPE WITH A WINDMILL BESIDE A CANAL, | Leonard Joel | N/A
4. 2025-10-02 | JOHN ERNEST AITKEN, A LANDSCAPE WITH A WINDMILL BESIDE A CANAL, | Leonard Joel | N/A
5. 2025-06-19 | JOHN ERNEST AITKEN, A LANDSCAPE WITH A WINDMILL BESIDE A CANAL, | Leonard Joel | N/A
6. 2025-06-12 | John Ernest Aitken \(1881\-1957\), THE LIGHTHOUSE, YOURDON | Waddington's | N/A
7. 2025-05-01 | JOHN ERNEST AITKEN, A LANDSCAPE WITH A WINDMILL BESIDE A CANAL, | Leonard Joel | N/A
8. 2024-06-15 | John Ernest Aitken | Das Kunst\- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG | N/A
9. 2023-05-24 | John Ernest Aitken \(1881\-1957\), 'Old Holland', a waterway with Dutch barges, watercolour, labels ver | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £240
10. 2021-09-16 | JOHN ERNEST AITKEN, SHIPS AT SEA, WATERCOLOUR, 33 X 49.5CM CONDITION: EVIDENCE OF FOREIGN MATTER ACROSS MOUNT, WORK ITSELF IN GOOD... | Leonard Joel | A$220
11. 2021-08-19 | JOHN ERNEST AITKEN, SHIPS AT SEA, WATERCOLOUR, 33 X 49.5CM CONDITION: EVIDENCE OF FOREIGN MATTER ACROSS MOUNT, WORK ITSELF IN GOOD... | Leonard Joel | N/A
12. 2021-01-24 | John Ernest Aitken \(1881\-1957\) | Bargain Hunt Auctions | A$70
13. 2020-07-17 | John Ernest Aitken \(1881\-1957\) British. Herring Boats, Yarmouth, Watercolour, Signed, 10" x 14". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £360
14. 2020-06-28 | JOHN ERNEST AITKEN \(1881\-1957\) "KRALINGSCHE PLAS, ROTTERDAM" Signed lower | Elstob Auctioneers | £260
15. 2020-02-26 | John Ernest Aitken \(1881\-1957\) British. "Richmond Castle", a Rooftop View, Watercolour, Signed, and Inscribed on the reverse, 13.5" x 11.5". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £40
16. 2020-01-29 | John Ernest Aitken \(1881\-1957\) British. "Richmond Castle", with Figures in the Foreground, Watercolour, Signed, and Inscribed on a label on the reverse, 14" x 19.75". Provenance; Gallery Thirty Three, Sussex. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £360
17. 2019-10-30 | John Ernest Aitken \(1881\-1957\) British. A Beach Scene, with a Beached Small Boat, Watercolour, Signed, 9.25" x 13.25". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £120
18. 2019-06-25 | John Ernest Aitken \(1881\-1957\) The Yacht Race & Rough Seas off Dartmouth 13 x 19.5in. | Gorringes | £420
19. 2018-09-20 | John Ernest Aitken \(1881–1957\), British, THE LIGHTHOUSE, YOURDON, Watercolour; signed lower right, titled to the namplate, Sight 13 x 19 in — 33 x 48.3 cm | Waddington's | N/A
20. 2018-06-28 | John Ernest Aitken \(1881\-1957\), DUTCH HARBOUR WITH BOATS AT DOCK, Watercolour; signed lower left, Sight 13.25 x 19 in — 33.7 x 48.3 cm | Waddington's | N/A
21. 2018-06-28 | John Ernest Aitken \(1881\-1957\), WINDMILL ON THE CANAL, Watercolour; signed lower right, Sight 13.25 x 19 in — 33.7 x 48.3 cm | Waddington's | CA$600
22. 2017-11-01 | John Ernest Aitken | Charlton Hall | N/A
23. 2016-10-04 | \* John Ernest Aitken \[1881\-1957\]\- Pittenweem Harbo | Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood | N/A
24. 2016-09-22 | John Ernest Aitken \(1881\-1957\), Rotterda | Ewbank's | N/A

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