# Lamqua - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T19:58:51.048Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 24
- Lots with prices: 21
- First auction date: 2011-08-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-06
- Median realised price: $9,500
- Price range: $400 to $95,000

## Market Takeaway
Lamqua has 24 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $9,500. 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 \($9,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($6,000 to $18,000\) 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: 4.8% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 52.4% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 42.9% (9 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $6,000
- Previous 12 months median: $9,500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-06
- Days since latest sale: 174
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 10 lots
- Christie's: 7 lots
- Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians: 6 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-06 | LAMQUA \(active 1820\-1860\) Portrait of Captain Joseph Dudman \(2\) | Bonhams | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lamqua-active-1820-1860-portrait-of-captain-joseph-dudman-2-429-c-d519725cfa
2. 2025-05-15 | LAMQUA \(ACTIVE 1820\-1860\) Portrait of the Hong Merchant Howqua | Bonhams | £35,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lamqua-active-1820-1860-portrait-of-the-hong-merchant-howqua-184-c-bc34b5eb82
3. 2024-11-07 | LAMQUA \(ACTIVE 1825\-1860\) OR STUDIO OF Bridge at Henan \(Honam\) | Bonhams | £9,500
4. 2024-05-13 | LAMQUA \(CIRCA 1860\); AND OTHERS Various Subjects \(8\) | Bonhams | £400
5. 2025-11-06 | LAMQUA \(active 1820\-1860\) Portrait of Alexander Grant Dallas, later Governor or Rupert's Land, Canada | Bonhams | £4,200 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lamqua-active-1820-1860-portrait-of-alexander-grant-dallas-later-governor-or-rupert-s-land-canada-430-c-d5197b6d16
6. 2025-11-06 | LAMQUA \(FL. 1820\-60\) Canton: The English and Dutch Hongs | Bonhams | £6,000
7. 2025-05-15 | LAMQUA \(ACTIVE 1820\-1860\) Portrait of an officer of the East India Company | Bonhams | £18,000
8. 2024-11-07 | LAMQUA \(CIRCA 1820\-60\) OR STUDIO OF Portrait of a Chinese Merchant | Bonhams | £65,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lamqua-circa-1820-60-or-studio-of-portrait-of-a-chinese-merchant-162-c-e8f4431b69
9. 2024-11-07 | LAMQUA \(ACTIVE 1825\-1860\) Portrait of the 'Hong Merchant' Houqua, circa 1850 | Bonhams | £95,000
10. 2020-11-05 | Lamqua \(fl.1820\-1860\) Portrait of a gentleman, seated small half leng | Christie's | N/A
11. 2019-11-07 | Lamqua \(fl.1820\-1860\) \- Portrait of the Hong Kong Merchant Wei Akwang, half length, wearing his badge... | Christie's | £9,375
12. 2019-11-07 | Lamqua \(fl.1820\-1860\), after George Chinnery \- A Sampan Girl of Macao | Christie's | £8,125
13. 2019-11-07 | Lamqua \(fl.1820\-1860\) \- A Western Merchant, seated small half length, by a Moon Window, with a view to... | Christie's | £9,750
14. 2019-11-07 | Lamqua \(fl.1820\-1860\) \- Portrait of a Mandarin, seated small half length, his fur\-lined outer coat with... | Christie's | £11,875
15. 2019-11-07 | Lamqua \(fl.1820\-1860\) \- Portrait of the Hong Merchant Howqua, seated small three\-quarter length | Christie's | £35,000
16. 2019-11-07 | Lamqua \(fl.1820\-1860\) \- Portrait of a Man wearing a blue smock, holding a string of beads \(thought to... | Christie's | £13,750
17. 2018-09-10 | LAMQUA \(ACTIVE 1825\-1860\) Portrait of Ah You Oil on woven cotton canvas, framed, with | Bonhams | $22,500
18. 2015-08-16 | LAMQUA \(CHINESE, ACT. 1820\-1860\). PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN SEATED BEFORE RED DRAPERY, CIRCA 1840. | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $8,880
19. 2014-08-17 | LAMQUA \(CHINESE, ACT. 1820\-1860\) OR STUDIO. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN AT A WINDOW, CIRCA 1845. | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $8,000
20. 2014-08-17 | LAMQUA \(CHINESE, ACT. 1820\-1860\) OR STUDIO. PORTRAIT OF JAMES CROOKE, CIRCA 1840. | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $3,400
21. 2014-08-17 | LAMQUA \(CHINESE, ACT. 1820\-1860\) OR STUDIO. PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, POSSIBLY JAMES CALDER STEWART. | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $3,600
22. 2014-08-17 | LAMQUA \(CHINESE, ACT. 1820\-1860\) OR STUDIO. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN ARRANGING HER HAIR. | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $3,200
23. 2012-09-27 | Lamqua \(active 1823\-1860\) Chinese. A Scribe at | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
24. 2011-08-21 | LAMQUA \(CHINESE, ACT. 1820\-1860\). CHINA TRADE PORTRAIT OF THE HONG MERCHANT HOUQUA. | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $11,500

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