# John Opie - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T20:54:50.743Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 69
- Lots with prices: 46
- First auction date: 2001-03-21
- Latest auction date: 2026-03-01
- Median realised price: $3,000
- Price range: $50 to $19,000

## Market Takeaway
John Opie shows solid auction liquidity with 67 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 10 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-20.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($3,500\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $900 and $6,600.
- 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: 28.9% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 60% (27 sales)
- $10,000\+: 11.1% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 10
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $1,600
- Previous 12 months median: $5,200
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-20
- Days since latest sale: 90
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales: 10 lots
- Sotheby's: 7 lots
- Bonhams: 6 lots
- Christie's: 6 lots
- Gray's Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- DuMouchelles: 2 lots
- Frank Boos: 2 lots
- O'Gallerie: 2 lots
- Potomack Company: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-02-10 | JOHN OPIE \(BRITISH 1761\-1807\), PORTRAIT OF JUDGE GEORGE LEWIS NEWNHAM | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-opie-british-1761-1807-portrait-of-judge-george-lewis-newnham-150-c-db9bf20005
2. 2025-11-20 | JOHN OPIE \(1761\-1807\) ROBERT THEW \(1758\-1802\), A GROUP OF THREE SHAKESPEARE PRINTS: KING JOHN; KING RICHARD THE THIRD and KING HENRY THE SIXTH, Engraving, Sight: 24 x 16 in. \(61 x 40.6 cm.\), Frame: 34 x 26 1/2 in. \(86.4 | Potomack Company | $100
3. 2025-11-04 | JOHN OPIE \(BRITISH 1761 \- 1807\), PORTRAIT OF JOHN GAY OF RAINTHORPE HALL | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £1,600 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-opie-british-1761-1807-portrait-of-john-gay-of-rainthorpe-hall-227-c-e1f9dfd3af
4. 2025-11-04 | JOHN OPIE \(BRITISH 1761\-1807\), GIL BLAS BINDING DAME LEONARDA | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £9,000
5. 2025-10-22 | John Opie \(1761\-1807\) Portrait of Mrs E. W. Clarke as votary of Bacchus, wearing a grey dress with red sash, a foliate headdress to her hair, oil on canvas 74 x 62cm Provenance: purchased from the Netherlands Gallery, 25th May 1906, sold together... | Mallams | £2,400
6. 2025-08-12 | John Opie \(1761\-1807\), "Mrs. Brookings" | John Moran Auctioneers | $726 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-opie-1761-1807-mrs-brookings-2397-c-3fc45a987f
7. 2025-07-28 | JOHN OPIE PAINTING, "SINGING THE BLUES." | O'Gallerie | $50
8. 2025-07-02 | JOHN OPIE \(BRITISH 1761\-1807\), PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | N/A
9. 2025-06-11 | JOHN OPIE \(BRITISH 1761 \- 1807\), PORTRAIT OF LADY ARTHUR SOMERSET \(ELIZABETH BOSCAWEN\) | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £4,000
10. 2025-06-11 | JOHN OPIE \(BRITISH 1761 \- 1807\), PORTRAIT OF JOHN GAY OF RAINTHORPE HALL | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-opie-british-1761-1807-portrait-of-john-gay-of-rainthorpe-hall-193-c-0de48cbb25
11. 2025-05-05 | JOHN OPIE PAINTING, "SINGING THE BLUES." | O'Gallerie | N/A
12. 2025-02-11 | JOHN OPIE \(BRITISH 1761\-1807\), GIL BLAS BINDING DAME LEONARDA | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | N/A
13. 2025-02-04 | John Opie, attribution, Portrait of a Lady | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
14. 2025-01-22 | JOHN OPIE \(BRITISH 1761\-1807\), PORTRAIT OF MRS NEWNHAM WITH HER CHILD | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £13,000
15. 2025-01-22 | JOHN OPIE \(BRITISH 1761\-1807\), PORTRAIT OF JUDGE GEORGE LEWIS NEWNHAM | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £19,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-opie-british-1761-1807-portrait-of-judge-george-lewis-newnham-235-c-3b84024bab
16. 2024-07-05 | John Opie 1761 Trevellas\-1807 Londra Ritratto femminile | Cambi Casa d'Aste | €5,200
17. 2024-05-18 | John Opie \(American Born 1936\), "Sarah Swimming", Acrylic on paper, Signed bottom "Opie 1980", Frame 21" x 22" | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $288
18. 2023-12-19 | John Opie | Bolli & Romiti s.r.l | €5,800
19. 2023-12-15 | JOHN OPIE \(1761\-1807\), ATTRIBUE \- Portrait de la comédienne Elisabeth Searle | Accademia Fine Art | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-opie-1761-1807-attribue-portrait-de-la-comedienne-elisabeth-searle-646-c-a404069901
20. 2023-11-02 | John Opie \(American, b. 1936\) | Gray's Auctioneers | N/A
21. 2023-09-27 | JOHN OPIE \(AMERICAN, B. 1936\) | Gray's Auctioneers | N/A
22. 2023-08-17 | John Opie \(American b. 1936\), acrylic on board | Pook & Pook Inc. | $100
23. 2023-07-18 | John Opie \(British, 1761–1807\) Portrait of a Gentleman in Profile, Possibly Dr. John Wolcot | Freeman's \| Hindman | $3,000
24. 2022-09-16 | JOHN OPIE \(BRITISH, 1761\-1807\), OIL ON CANVAS, H 36", W 28", PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL WITH A CAT | DuMouchelles | $5,500

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