# Octavius Oakley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:38:38.253Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 53
- Lots with prices: 33
- First auction date: 2003-05-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-04
- Median realised price: $500
- Price range: $10 to $7,000

## Market Takeaway
Octavius Oakley has 53 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($300 to $1,100\) 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: 72.7% (24 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 27.3% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $500
- Previous 12 months median: $600
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-04
- Days since latest sale: 191
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 12 lots
- Martel Maides: 8 lots
- Joshua Kodner: 7 lots
- Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales: 4 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 4 lots
- Channel Islands Auctions: 3 lots
- Gorringes: 3 lots
- Lawsons: 3 lots
- Wilson55: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-04 | OCTAVIUS OAKLEY \(BRITISH 1800 \- 1867\), THE GUITAR BOY | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £500
2. 2025-10-11 | Octavius Oakley | Joshua Kodner | $1,800
3. 2025-05-19 | OCTAVIUS OAKLEY, 1800\-1867, Fortune Teller, c1860, watercolour and bodycolour, 30 x 25cm | Lawsons | N/A
4. 2025-04-16 | OCTAVIUS OAKLEY \(1800\-1867\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £600
5. 2025-02-11 | OCTAVIUS OAKLEY \(BRITISH 1800\-1867\), PORTRAIT OF JANE, COUNTESS OF AYLESFORD | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £900
6. 2025-02-11 | OCTAVIUS OAKLEY \(BRITISH 1800\-1867\), PORTRAIT OF HENEAGE FINCH | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £1,900
7. 2024-11-13 | OCTAVIUS OAKLEY, 1800\-1867, Fortune Teller, c1860, watercolour and bodycolour, 30 x 25cm | Lawsons | N/A
8. 2024-10-16 | OCTAVIUS OAKLEY \(1800\-1867\) | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
9. 2024-07-13 | Octavius OAKLEY \(1800\-1867\), pair of watercolours on paper, portraits of the Crompton family from Durant Hall Chesterfield, painted C1827?, provenance hand written to reverse of each picture, 36 x 28cm, in gilt frames. \(2\) | Potteries Auctions | £100
10. 2024-02-11 | Octavius Oakley \(1800\-1867\) \- Ace Of Hearts, c1880 mixed media 30 x 25 cm \(frame: 55 x 50.5 cm\) | Lawsons | A$650
11. 2023-08-15 | OCTAVIUS OAKLEY \(BRITISH 1800\-1867\), YOUNG GIRL RESTING | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £110
12. 2023-08-12 | Octavius Oakley Watercolor Of Victorian Woman | Joshua Kodner | $3,800
13. 2023-02-28 | Octavius Oakley Watercolor Of Victorian Woman | Joshua Kodner | N/A
14. 2022-11-05 | Octavius Oakley Watercolor Of Victorian Woman | Joshua Kodner | N/A
15. 2022-09-24 | Octavius Oakley Watercolor Of Victorian Woman | Joshua Kodner | $6,000
16. 2022-02-16 | Octavius Oakley Watercolor Of Victorian Woman | Joshua Kodner | N/A
17. 2021-12-11 | Octavius Oakley Watercolor Of Victorian Woman | Joshua Kodner | $7,000
18. 2018-09-05 | Octavius Oakley \(1800\-1867\) British. 'The Orange Seller', Study of a Boy holding a Basket of Oranges, Watercolour, 16.25" x 10.5". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £300
19. 2018-06-26 | Octavius Oakley \(1800\-1867\) Portraits of ladies seated beside tables 17.5 x 13in. and 17.5 x 12.5in. | Gorringes | £350
20. 2018-06-26 | Octavius Oakley \(1800\-1867\) Head study of George Cattermole 1800\-1868 6.5 x 8in. | Gorringes | N/A
21. 2018-06-26 | Octavius Oakley \(1800\-1867\) A gypsy mother and children and a seated gypsy woman 21 x 16in. and 12 x 9in. | Gorringes | £420
22. 2017-10-21 | OCTAVIUS OAKLEY \(British, 1800\-1867\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $600
23. 2015-12-01 | Octavius Oakley, British 1800\-1867\- Gypsy family s | Roseberys | N/A
24. 2015-06-18 | Octavius Oakley \(British, 1800\-1867\) Study of a young gypsy girl dressed in scarlet cloak and black bonnet, | Martel Maides | N/A

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