# Mary Blood Mellen - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T10:36:57.618Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 15
- Lots with prices: 11
- First auction date: 1993-05-26
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-07
- Median realised price: $24,780
- Price range: $2,000 to $50,000

## Market Takeaway
Mary Blood Mellen has 15 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $24,780. 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 \($24,780\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($3,600 to $37,500\) 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: 36.4% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 63.6% (7 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $19,000
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-07
- Days since latest sale: 145
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians: 5 lots
- Skinner: 3 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Boston Harbor Auctions: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Freeman’s: 1 lots
- Shannon's: 1 lots
- Weschler's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-07 | Mary Blood Mellen \(American, 1817\-1882\) Twilight, Boston Harbor | Freeman’s | $19,000
2. 2022-12-09 | Mary Blood Mellen \(American 1817\-1882\), American Ship off Penobscot, Maine, Oil on canvas, 22 x 30\-1/2 in \(55.9 x 77.5 cm\) | Weschler's | $2,000
3. 2021-11-01 | MARY BLOOD MELLEN \(Massachusetts, 1817\-1882\), Quiet shoreline with figure at sunset., Oil on canvas, 5" x 6.75". Framed 8.75" x 10.5". | Eldred's | N/A
4. 2014-11-19 | Mary Blood Mellen \(1817\-1882\) Ship at Sea oil on canvas 24 x 36 in. \(61 x | Christie's | $37,500
5. 2014-08-17 | MARY BLOOD MELLEN \(AMERICAN 1817\-1882\). SHIP AT ANCHOR ON A LEE SHORE. | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $30,000
6. 2013-08-18 | MARY BLOOD MELLEN \(AMERICAN 1817\-1882\). SHIP AT SAIL WITH FISHING BOAT AND SCHOONER. | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $31,200
7. 2013-04-13 | Oil painting attr. Mary Blood Mellen | Boston Harbor Auctions | $50,000
8. 2013-02-01 | Mary Blood Mellen \(American, 1817\-1882\), Quiet Shoreline with Figure at Sunset, Unsigned, inscribed "E. L. ..." in pencil on the stretc | Skinner | $3,567
9. 2012-11-17 | MARY BLOOD MELLEN \(AMERICAN 1817\-1882\). FANCIFUL VIEW OF MOUNT DESERT AND THE ENTRANCE TO SOMES SOUND. | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $24,780
10. 2012-08-19 | MARY BLOOD MELLEN \(AMERICAN 1817\-1882\). FANCIFUL VIEW OF MOUNT DESERT AND THE ENTRANCE TO SOMES SOUND. | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | N/A
11. 2011-04-28 | MARY BLOOD MELLEN \(attributed\), American \(1817\-1882\), A Quiet Harbor, oil on canvas, unsigned., 9 x 13 | Shannon's | $3,600
12. 2009-08-16 | MARY BLOOD MELLEN \(AMERICAN 1817\-1882\). NORMAN'S | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $38,025
13. 2008-11-14 | Mary Blood Mellen \(American, 1817\-1882\), Boat in Gloucester Harbor, Unsigned., Condition: Lined, trimmed from a larger composition, mil | Skinner | N/A
14. 2003-05-16 | Mary Blood Mellen \(American, b. 1817\) Three Master in Rough Seas Unsigned. Oil on canvas, | Skinner | $8,225
15. 1993-05-26 | MARY BLOOD MELLEN \(1817\-"CIRCA" 1890\) Norman's Woe | Christie's | N/A

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