# Louis Betts - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T21:41:29.825Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 26
- Lots with prices: 20
- First auction date: 2003-11-22
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-02
- Median realised price: $900
- Price range: $100 to $27,500

## Market Takeaway
Louis Betts has 26 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $900. 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 \($900\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($250 to $4,148\) 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: 50% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 40% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 10% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $225
- Previous 12 months median: $100
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-02
- Days since latest sale: 149
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- STAIR: 3 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- James D. Julia: 2 lots
- John McInnis Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 2 lots
- Akiba Galleries: 1 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Jackson's International: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-02 | Louis Betts \(American, 1873\-1961\) Girl With Flowers Oil Painting | Akiba Galleries | $225
2. 2024-08-20 | Louis Betts, "Still Life" Oil on Board Painting | Weiss Auctions | N/A
3. 2024-05-30 | Louis Betts Oil on Panel Landscape | Willow Auction House | $100
4. 2022-12-06 | LOUIS BETTS \(1873\-1961\) O/M | Westport Auction | $700
5. 2022-03-02 | Louis Betts \(American, 1873\-1961\) | Sworders | £6,200
6. 2021-08-05 | Louis Betts \(1873\-1961\): Old Man in a Spring Rocker | STAIR | $500
7. 2021-06-26 | LOUIS BETTS \(1873\-1961\) | John McInnis Auctioneers | $900
8. 2021-01-30 | Louis Betts \(American, 1873 \- 1961\)woman in festive red and blue dressoil on canvassigned upper left: Louis Betts22 1/4" x 18 1/... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $225
9. 2020-08-26 | LOUIS BETTS \- CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH | Capsule Gallery Auction | $250
10. 2019-08-28 | Louis Betts, "Portrait of a Couple" O/C | Schwenke Auctioneers | $300
11. 2019-01-27 | LOUIS BETTS \(1873\-1961\) | John McInnis Auctioneers | N/A
12. 2018-08-04 | Louis Betts \(1873\-1961\): Portrait of Percy MacKaye | STAIR | $200
13. 2018-02-08 | LOUIS BETTS \(American, 1873\-1961\) YOUNG GIRL PETTING A WHITE DOG IN THE PARK. | James D. Julia | $1,500
14. 2017-10-28 | LOUIS BETTS \(1873\-1961\): PORTRAIT OF MRS. ELLA FLAGG YOUNG | STAIR | $3,000
15. 2017-08-16 | LOUIS BETTS \(American, 1873\-1961\) YOUNG GIRL PETTING A WHITE DOG IN THE PARK. | James D. Julia | N/A
16. 2017-01-10 | LOUIS BETTS \(AMER. 1873\-1961\) OIL A charming oil on canvas portrait of a little boy dressed in a sailor boy outfit, painted by the renowned American artist Louis L. Betts; 22" x 17", signed lower left. | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $375
17. 2016-11-21 | LOUIS BETTS \(1873\-1961\) A Spanish beauty signed and dated ‘Louis | Bonhams | $10,625
18. 2015-10-20 | Louis Betts \(1873\-1961 New York, NY\) | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
19. 2014-12-06 | Louis Betts \(1873\-1961\), Portrait of a Lady | Leland Little Auctions | $1,900
20. 2012-06-26 | LOUIS BETTS \(AMER. 1873\-1961\) OIL A charming oil | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | N/A
21. 2012-05-15 | Louis Betts \(American, 1873\-1961\) | Bonhams | $27,500
22. 2011-01-28 | Louis Betts \(American, 1873\-1961\) Still Life with Daffodils and Figure Signed "Louis Betts" l.r. Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in. \(50.8 x ... | Skinner | $4,148
23. 2010-02-13 | LOUIS BETTS \(AMERICAN, 1873\-1961\) NAPOLEON AFTER THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO Oil on panel: 12 x 16 in. | Potomack Company | $1,000
24. 2009-09-01 | Louis Betts \(American 1873\-1961\) | Christie's | $5,000

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