# Richard Whitford - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T03:01:21.985Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 47
- Lots with prices: 37
- First auction date: 2004-04-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-03-27
- Median realised price: $3,750
- Price range: $300 to $13,000

## Market Takeaway
Richard Whitford has 47 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,750. 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 \($3,750\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,000 to $5,040\) 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: 8.1% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 83.8% (31 sales)
- $10,000\+: 8.1% (3 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $2,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-03-27
- Days since latest sale: 398
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 22 lots
- Christie's: 7 lots
- Sotheby's: 5 lots
- Gorringes: 3 lots
- Kinghams Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 2 lots
- Sworders: 2 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- Mallams: 1 lots
- Mellors & Kirk: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-02-14 | Richard Whitford \(British, circa 1821\-1890\) Hereford prize heifer in a landscape | Bonhams | £13,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-richard-whitford-british-circa-1821-1890-hereford-prize-heifer-in-a-landscape-531-c-916417c8a3
2. 2025-03-27 | Richard Whitford, 1821\-1890, Chestnut Horse | Abell Auction | $2,000
3. 2024-02-14 | Richard Whitford \(British, circa 1821\-1890\) Equestrian portrait of a gentleman on a grey horse and his dogs | Bonhams | N/A
4. 2021-07-09 | Richard Whitford \(British, 1821\-1890\), a | Kinghams Auctioneers | £300
5. 2019-01-30 | Richard Whitford \(British, circa 1821\-1890\) Cat and Manchester Terrier dogs playing with a slipper | Bonhams | £1,875
6. 2018-12-04 | Richard Whitford \(c.1821\-1890\) Portrait of a prize cow standing in a landscape 18 x 24in. | Gorringes | £2,400
7. 2018-02-14 | Richard Whitford \(British, circa 1821\-1890\) Lincoln Ewes | Bonhams | £1,250
8. 2017-02-11 | Richard Whitford \(British 1821 \- 1890\). Hereford heifer, within a rural lan | Kinghams Auctioneers | £2,500
9. 2015-09-15 | Richard Whitford \(1854\-1887\)THREE SHEEP IN A LAND | Sworders | £1,550
10. 2015-09-15 | Richard Whitford \(1854\-1887\)A HIGHLAND STEERSign | Sworders | £2,000
11. 2015-01-27 | Richard Whitford \(British, circa 1821\-1890\) Lincoln Ewes | Bonhams | £2,000
12. 2013-10-04 | RICHARD WHITFORD \(BRITISH D.1890\) STUDY OF A HORSE IN LANDSCAPE 51cm x 61cm \(20in x 24in\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £500
13. 2013-05-30 | RICHARD WHITFORD \(BRITISH D.1890\) STUDY OF A HORSE IN LANDSCAPE 51cm x 61cm \(20in x 24in\) | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
14. 2012-10-25 | Richard Whitford \(c.1821\-1890\) Study of a sow, 13 x 16.5in. | Gorringes | £9,500
15. 2012-10-25 | Richard Whitford \(c.1821\-1890\) 'A Prize Sheep', 24 x 29in. | Gorringes | £4,600
16. 2010-06-24 | RICHARD WHITFORD \(British, c.1821\-1890\) A chestnut | Mallams | £1,400
17. 2010-04-16 | RICHARD WHITFORD \(1854\-1887\) "Cow seated by a | Moore Allen & Innocent | N/A
18. 2010-01-20 | Richard Whitford \(British, d.1890\) A prize cow in a landscape | Bonhams | £4,320
19. 2010-01-20 | Richard Whitford \(British, d.1890\) A prize cow in a landscape | Bonhams | £3,600
20. 2010-01-20 | Richard Whitford \(British, d.1890\) A prize cow in a wooded river landscape | Bonhams | £2,640
21. 2010-01-20 | Richard Whitford \(British, d.1890\) A prize cow in a landscape | Bonhams | £5,040
22. 2010-01-20 | Richard Whitford \(British, d.1890\) A prize cow in a landscape | Bonhams | £4,080
23. 2010-01-20 | Richard Whitford \(British, d.1890\) A prize cow in a barn | Bonhams | £12,600
24. 2010-01-20 | Richard Whitford \(British, d.1890\) A prize cow in a barn | Bonhams | £7,800

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