# John Joseph Cotman - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T19:44:35.575Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 109
- Lots with prices: 67
- First auction date: 2003-06-12
- Latest auction date: 2026-02-22
- Median realised price: $600
- Price range: $60 to $4,000

## Market Takeaway
John Joseph Cotman shows solid auction liquidity with 108 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $600. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-26.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($600\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $170 and $1,200.
- 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: 65.7% (44 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 34.3% (23 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $300
- Previous 12 months median: $380
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-26
- Days since latest sale: 115
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Keys Fine Art Auctioneers: 27 lots
- Bonhams: 17 lots
- Dawsons Auctioneers: 15 lots
- Broward Auction Gallery LLC: 13 lots
- Christie's: 7 lots
- Cheffins: 5 lots
- Sotheby's: 5 lots
- Mallams: 3 lots
- Martel Maides: 3 lots
- Reeman Dansie: 3 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-02-22 | John Joseph Cotman \(UK,1814\-1878\) oil painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-joseph-cotman-uk-1814-1878-oil-painting-antique-439-c-f77caeb7d9
2. 2025-10-26 | John Joseph Cotman \(UK,1814\-1878\) oil painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-joseph-cotman-uk-1814-1878-oil-painting-antique-368-c-1bb45fb8d5
3. 2025-04-06 | John Joseph Cotman \(UK,1814\-1878\) oil painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | $300 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-joseph-cotman-uk-1814-1878-oil-painting-antique-399-c-130446aa38
4. 2025-01-05 | John Joseph Cotman \(UK,1814\-1878\) oil painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | $380 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-joseph-cotman-uk-1814-1878-oil-painting-antique-291-c-6984facb58
5. 2024-05-19 | John Joseph Cotman \(UK,1814\-1878\) oil painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | $575 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-joseph-cotman-uk-1814-1878-oil-painting-antique-243-c-ba043968d3
6. 2024-02-11 | John Joseph Cotman \(UK,1814\-1878\) oil painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-joseph-cotman-uk-1814-1878-oil-painting-antique-586-c-73c445888d
7. 2025-03-05 | John Joseph Cotman \(1814\-1878\) On the Avon, inscribed in pencil to a label attached verso, watercolour, 18 x 27cm | Mallams | £350
8. 2024-02-27 | John Joseph Cotman \- Hallsands, Devon  | Roseberys | £140
9. 2023-11-12 | John Joseph Cotman \(UK,1814\-1878\) oil painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | N/A
10. 2023-08-20 | John Joseph Cotman \(UK,1814\-1878\) oil painting antique | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | N/A
11. 2023-07-27 | John Joseph Cotman \(1814\-1878\), a collection of nine sketches, largely pencil landscapes on paper and mostly signed, unframed in card mounts \(each mount 41 cm x 28 cm\), together with a portrait of a lady, 'Mrs F G Cotman' \[Maria Taylor, wife of... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £150
12. 2023-07-27 | John Joseph Cotman \(1814\-1878\), 'Whitlingham Church', signed, titled and numbered 103, pencil sketch, an applied newspaper clipping and a pencil inscription verso, 22.5cm x 32.5cm | Dawsons Auctioneers | N/A
13. 2023-05-25 | John Joseph Cotman \(1814 \- 1878\), 'Norwich from Mousehold' & 'The River near Norwich', the latter with pencil sketch verso, unsigned, watercolors, each mounted onto card, the card later ink inscribed 'Ex Fellows \- Rex Spelman Coll' & 'Ex... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £140
14. 2023-05-25 | John Joseph Cotman \(1814 \- 1878\), three pencil & charcoal sketches, 'Whitlingham' & 'A Wood', both ex Bolingbroke collection & 'Trees near a river' ex Wm Fellows collection, all within card mounts with later ink inscriptions, 13.2cm x 18.8cm,... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £90
15. 2023-05-25 | John Joseph Cotman \(1814 \- 1878\), ' Bishop Bridge', signed and dated 1870, pencil sketch, later ink inscription verso, 42cm x 68.5cm; and \`Norwich from Mousehold', signed and dated 1875, watercolour, 30cm x 57.5cm | Dawsons Auctioneers | N/A
16. 2023-05-25 | John Joseph Cotman \(1814 \- 1878\), three pencil sketches, 'Tower at Yarmouth', 'Road with Poplars' & 'Trees on a Hillock', the latter two signed, Road with Poplars has a further pencil sketch verso, on card mounts with later ink inscriptions, the... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £70
17. 2023-05-25 | John Joseph Cotman \(1814 \- 1878\), four pencil sketches, 'Trees in landscape', & 'Riverscape', both ex Wm Fellows & Rex Spelman collection, the latter being a sketch for an oil painting in Castle Museum Collection, 9.5cm x 26cm & 10cm x 26cm; and '... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £80
18. 2023-05-25 | John Joseph Cotman \(British, 1814\-1878\), 'Boswell Castle and River', signed and dated 1871, watercolour, 49.5cm x 67cm | Dawsons Auctioneers | £120
19. 2023-05-25 | John Joseph Cotman \(British, 1814\-1878\), 'Mountain Scene with Figure on Horse', signed, pencil sketch, 27cm x 27.8cm, 'Study of Trees', etching, signed and dated within the plate 1840 23.5cm x 15cm, Eloise Harriet Stannard, \(1829 \- 1914\) a... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £170
20. 2023-05-25 | John Joseph Cotman \(British, 1814\-1878\), 'Norwich Castle from near Thorpe Road, Norwich', watercolour, inscribed verso 'Kings Lynn Second Grand Art Loan Exhibition 10 Feb 1877..., 37cm x 26.5cm | Dawsons Auctioneers | £170
21. 2023-05-25 | John Joseph Cotman \(1814 \- 1878\), three pencil sketches, 'Heigham Hall', pencil & watercolour, ex Bolingbroke collection, 'Studies of Fisherfolk', and a figural study, ex Fellows & Spelman collection, each on card mounts with later ink... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £90
22. 2023-05-25 | John Joseph Cotman \(British, 1814\-1878\), 'A River Scene', watercolour, inscribed in ink verso with title and 'Exhibited at the "Art of the Seven Cotman's Exhibition" Norwich Castle Art Gallery, July 1942' and with further applied American Loan... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £4,000
23. 2023-05-25 | John Joseph Cotman \(British, 1814\-1878\), three pencil sketches, 'Looking towards Norwich, Seated Lady with Parasol' \(Ex. Bolingbroke Collection\), 17.8cm x 24.5cm; 'The Capstan Yarmouth', intialled, 24.5cm x 35cm and 'Pond View with Gate', 17cm x... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £140
24. 2023-05-25 | John Joseph Cotman \(British, 1814\-1878\), five pencil sketches, 'Study of a Tree beside the Thames', two views of Caister each with a further sketch verso and two identical sketches of a 'Stile by Water', all within thick card mounts, smallest... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £110

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