# Margaret Murray Cookesley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T00:03:42.792Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 27
- Lots with prices: 17
- First auction date: 2005-02-16
- Latest auction date: 2024-10-15
- Median realised price: $1,000
- Price range: $4 to $6,875

## Market Takeaway
Margaret Murray Cookesley has 27 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,000. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($1,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($480 to $3,750\) 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: 47.1% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 52.9% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $5,500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-10-15
- Days since latest sale: 562
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Claydon Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Dawsons Auctioneers: 2 lots
- HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo: 2 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 2 lots
- Potomack Company: 2 lots
- Setdart Auction House: 2 lots
- Gorringes: 1 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-10-15 | MARGARET MURRAY COOKESLEY \(1844\-1927\) "The Sultan's Darlings". 1894. Oil on panel. Signed and dated in the lower margin. | Setdart Auction House | €5,500
2. 2024-06-25 | MARGARET MURRAY COOKESLEY \(1844\-1927\) "The Sultan's Darlings". 1894. Oil on panel. Signed and dated in the lower margin. | Setdart Auction House | €5,500
3. 2024-02-13 | MARGARET MURRAY COOKESLEY \(BRITISH 19TH/20TH CENTURY\) AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR \- 1899 | Lyon & Turnbull | £480
4. 2023-11-15 | Margaret Murray Cookesley \(British, circa 1850\-1927\) A game of draughts | Bonhams | £1,000
5. 2023-09-07 | MARGARET MURRAY COOKESLEY \(BRITISH 19TH/20TH CENTURY\) AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
6. 2023-06-15 | MARGARET MURRAY COOKESLEY \(BRITISH, 1884\-1910\) The Sailing of the Sword oil | Christie's | $5,040
7. 2021-06-24 | Margaret Murray Cookesley \(c.1850\-1927\), a Venetian scene, with boats and figures before buildings under a hazy sky, watercolour, signed to lower right corner, 24.5 cm x 34.5 cm framed and glazed. | Dawsons Auctioneers | £110
8. 2021-05-27 | Margaret Murray Cookesley \(c.1850\-1927\), a Venetian scene, with boats and figures before buildings under a hazy sky, watercolour, signed to lower right corner, 24.5 cm x 34.5 cm framed and glazed. | Dawsons Auctioneers | £90
9. 2021-04-27 | Margaret Murray Cookesley \(British, circa 1850\-1927\) Arab figures seated by an open doorway 16 x 12in \(40.7 x 30.6cm\) | Bonhams | $1,000
10. 2018-11-14 | MARGARET MURRAY COOKESLEY \(1844\-1927\) | Tajan | N/A
11. 2018-04-29 | Margaret Murray COOKESLEY \(c.1850\-1927\) | HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo | N/A
12. 2017-11-21 | Margaret Murray Cookesley \(British, circa 1850\-1927\) Harem scene | Bonhams | £3,750
13. 2017-07-02 | Margaret Murray COOKESLEY \(c.1850\-1927\) Portrait de la comédienne Ellen Terry en costume d'Imogène dans Cymbeline | HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo | N/A
14. 2016-11-02 | Margaret Murray Cookesley \(British, circa 1850\-1927\) Telling stories 20 1.8 x 30 1/8in \(51 x 76.5cm\) | Bonhams | N/A
15. 2016-04-08 | Margaret Murray Cookesley \(British, c. 1850\-1927\), The Harem Girl, Signed "M. Cookesley" l.l., identified on a presentation plaque., Co | Skinner | $1,400
16. 2016-02-06 | Margaret Murray Cookesley \(c. 1850\-1927 \) Arabic s | Claydon Auctioneers | £680
17. 2015-04-11 | Margaret Murray Cookesley \(c.1850\-1927\) Arab School, | Claydon Auctioneers | £550
18. 2013-07-16 | Margaret Murray Cookesley \(1850\-1927\), PORTRAIT OF | Sworders | N/A
19. 2010-12-11 | MARGARET MURRAY COOKESLEY \(BRITISH, \-1927\) PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG BOY Oil on canvas: 30 x 50 in. | Potomack Company | N/A
20. 2010-10-02 | MARGARET MURRAY COOKESLEY \(BRITISH, \-1927\) PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG BOY Oil on canvas: 30 x 50 in. | Potomack Company | N/A
21. 2010-07-13 | MARGARET MURRAY COOKESLEY | Sotheby's | £6,875
22. 2009-11-04 | Margaret Murray Cookesley \(circa 1850\-1927\) "The | Venduehuis der Notarissen | €4
23. 2009-09-03 | Margaret Murray Cookesley \(British d. 1927\) Standing Guard 16 x 20in. | Gorringes | N/A
24. 2008-09-13 | Margaret Murray Cookesley \(British d. 1927\) | Weschler's | $3,600

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