# Lawrence Macdonald - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T01:18:42.846Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 21
- Lots with prices: 17
- First auction date: 2010-01-29
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-31
- Median realised price: $3,750
- Price range: $1,300 to $140,000

## Market Takeaway
Lawrence Macdonald has 21 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,750. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($3,750\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,250 to $6,500\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 76.5% (13 sales)
- $10,000\+: 23.5% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $4,500
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-31
- Days since latest sale: 181
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 6 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Gorringes: 3 lots
- Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates: 2 lots
- Marques dos Santos: 2 lots
- Simpson Galleries, LLC: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Veritas Art Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-31 | Lawrence MacDonald \(1799\-1878\) 1862, et plus tardifBuste en marbre représentant Psyche/ DianaLawrence MacDonald \(1799\-1878\) 1862, and laterA carved marble bust of Psyche/ Diana | Bonhams | €4,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lawrence-macdonald-1799-1878-1862-et-plus-tardifbuste-en-marbre-representant-psyche-dianalawrence-macdonald-1799-1878-1862-and-latera-carved-marble-bust-of-psyche-diana-320-c-5d9fe69d94
2. 2024-03-13 | Lawrence Macdonald \(1799\-1878\)A Gentleman's bust | Veritas Art Auctioneers | €6,500
3. 2023-12-13 | Girl with a butterfly | Sotheby's | £22,860
4. 2022-10-16 | LAWRENCE MACDONALD \(1799\-1878\) MARBLE SCULPTURE | Austin Auction Gallery | $6,000
5. 2022-10-12 | Lawrence MacDonald \(Scottish, 1799\-1878\) A 19th century carved white marble bust of Mrs John Hungerford Arkwright | Bonhams | £1,300 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lawrence-macdonald-scottish-1799-1878-a-19th-century-carved-white-marble-bust-of-mrs-john-hungerford-arkwright-5-c-44b4f0d94e
6. 2020-10-17 | LAWRENCE MACDONALD \(BRITISH, 1799\-1878\) CARVED MARBLE BUST OF PSYCHE / DIANA | Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates | $22,230
7. 2019-10-19 | LAWRENCE MACDONALD \(BRITISH, 1799\-1878\) MARBLE BUST OF A GENTLEMAN | Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates | $1,521 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lawrence-macdonald-british-1799-1878-marble-bust-of-a-gentleman-1429-c-5a44295aaf
8. 2019-03-06 | Lawrence Macdonald \(British, 1799 \- 1878\) | Bonhams | £2,805
9. 2018-12-04 | LAWRENCE MACDONALD \(1799\-1878\) BRITISH, CIRCA 1840 \| Cupid with a Swan, Allegory of the Genius of Poetry | Sotheby's | £140,000
10. 2017-12-13 | LAWRENCE MACDONALD \| Bust of a Gentleman | Sotheby's | £3,750
11. 2017-10-15 | LAWRENCE MACDONALD \(Scottish 1799\-1878\) A MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF A GENTLEMAN, ROME, 1838, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $2,250
12. 2017-06-10 | LAWRENCE MACDONALD \(Scottish 1799\-1878\) A MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF A GENTLEMAN, ROME,1838, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $2,000
13. 2015-12-16 | LAWRENCE MACDONALD \| Bust of a Boy | Sotheby's | £4,375
14. 2015-06-24 | Lawrence Macdonald \(Scottish, 1799\-1878\). A carved white marble bust of a maiden, 25.5in. | Gorringes | N/A
15. 2015-05-20 | LAWRENCE MACDONALD \| Venus | Sotheby's | £65,000
16. 2015-04-29 | Lawrence Macdonald \(Scottish, 1799\-1878\). A carved white marble bust of a maiden, 25.5in. | Gorringes | N/A
17. 2015-04-15 | LAWRENCE MACDONALD \(1799\-1878\) A MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF JAMES GILLESPIE GRAHAM \(1776\-1855\) | Bonhams | £2,125
18. 2013-10-03 | LAWRENCE MACDONALD \(1799\-1878\) \- Female Bust | Marques dos Santos | €2,800
19. 2012-11-19 | LAWRENCE MACDONALD \(1799\-1878\) \- Female Bust | Marques dos Santos | N/A
20. 2011-10-19 | Lawrence Macdonald \(1799\-1878\), A carved white marble bust of Queen Victoria, bust 25ins, 46ins overall | Gorringes | N/A
21. 2010-01-29 | LAWRENCE MACDONALD | Sotheby's | $3,750

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