# John Scarlett Davis - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T11:53:19.727Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 30
- Lots with prices: 23
- First auction date: 2001-11-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-22
- Median realised price: $450
- Price range: $100 to $68,750

## Market Takeaway
John Scarlett Davis has 30 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $450. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 5 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 \($450\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($220 to $1,080\) 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: 73.9% (17 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 13% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 13% (3 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $220
- Previous 12 months median: $240
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-22
- Days since latest sale: 189
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 6 lots
- Sotheby's: 6 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 3 lots
- Mallams: 3 lots
- Gorringes: 2 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Roseberys: 2 lots
- Bellmans Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Cheffins: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-22 | John Scarlett Davis \(1804\-1845\) The Red Boy, after Sir Thomas Lawrence, inscribed to label verso, oil on canvas, 58 x 49.5cm, together with two prints after the artist, one a self portrait. \(3\) | Mallams | £240
2. 2025-10-22 | John Scarlett Davis \(1804\-1845\) Portrait of a monk, in brown robe with long beard, signed with initials and dated 1843, oil on canvas, 24.5 x 18.5cm | Mallams | £100
3. 2025-10-22 | John Scarlett Davis \(1804\-1845\) Portrait of Francis Davis, the artist's uncle, signed and dated 1832, inscribed further to labels verso, oil on panel, 30.5 x 25cm Sold together with copy of article from Apollo magazine, April 1933, in which this... | Mallams | £200
4. 2025-09-17 | John Scarlett Davis \(British, 1804–1845\) | Cheffins | £220 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-scarlett-davis-british-1804-1845-96-c-1f34764bce
5. 2025-05-28 | John Scarlett Davis \(1804\-1845\) | Sworders | £800
6. 2025-03-12 | John Scarlett Davis,  Deathbed  | Roseberys | £240 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-scarlett-davis-deathbed-361-c-1204916924
7. 2019-08-14 | JOHN SCARLETT DAVIS \(BRITISH, 1804\-CIRCA 1845\) | Chiswick Auctions | £187
8. 2019-06-04 | John Scarlett Davis \(British, 1804–died circa 1845 | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
9. 2019-05-01 | John Scarlett Davis \(1804\-1845\) British. "Head of a Sleeping Child", Pencil, Inscribed on a label on the reverse, 4.25" x 3.5". Provenance: Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, London. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £150
10. 2018-12-07 | John Scarlett Davis \(Leominster 1804\-1845 London\) | Christie's | £68,750
11. 2018-03-28 | John Scarlett Davis \(1804\-1845\) British. Portrait of George Crowther \(1779\-1852\) of Laneside Mills, Churwell, Near Leeds, Pencil, Oval, 5.25" x 4". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £105
12. 2017-12-12 | JOHN SCARLETT DAVIS \(1804\-circa 1845\) The Tower of St Sever, Rouen inscribed l.r.: S. Sever Sept 41/Rouen watercolour and black chalk over pencil heightened with white 23 x 17.5 cm  mounted, unframed Provenance: Henry Scipio Reitlinger \(L.2274a\); The Ingram Collection: Drawings & Watercolours From The Collection of The Late Michael Ingram, Sotheby's London, Deceber 8th 2005, Lot 196 | Chiswick Auctions | £492
13. 2014-12-04 | John Scarlett Davis \(1804\-1844\) Bruges, 11.25 x 7.5in. | Gorringes | £400
14. 2008-09-10 | Follower of John Scarlett Davies 1804\-1845\- | Roseberys | £320
15. 2008-04-25 | John Scarlett Davis \(1804\-1845\), Interior, St | Bellmans Auctioneers | £360
16. 2007-07-03 | Near the Seine | Christie's | £456
17. 2006-10-17 | John Scarlett Davis \(1804\-1845\) Putto and dog 6.5 x 6in. | Gorringes | N/A
18. 2005-12-08 | JOHN SCARLETT DAVIS 1804\-1844 | Sotheby's | £3,120
19. 2005-12-08 | JOHN SCARLETT DAVIS 1804\-1844 | Sotheby's | £3,120
20. 2005-12-08 | JOHN SCARLETT DAVIS 1804\-1844 | Sotheby's | £600
21. 2005-12-08 | JOHN SCARLETT DAVIS 1804\-1844 | Sotheby's | £1,080
22. 2005-12-08 | JOHN SCARLETT DAVIS 1804\-1844 | Sotheby's | £960
23. 2005-12-08 | JOHN SCARLETT DAVIS 1804\-1844 | Sotheby's | £18,000
24. 2003-05-04 | John Scarlett Davis \(British, 1804\-1845\), "Interior of a Room in Hampton Court Palace", c.1840; | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A

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