# Robert Swain Gifford - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T20:14:30.474Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 155
- Lots with prices: 78
- First auction date: 2000-08-19
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-18
- Median realised price: $900
- Price range: $25 to $12,000

## Market Takeaway
Robert Swain Gifford shows deep auction liquidity with 154 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $900. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 7 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-18.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($900\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $150 and $2,200.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 52.6% (41 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 42.3% (33 sales)
- $10,000\+: 5.1% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 7
- Previous 12 months sales: 10
- Recent 12 months median: $1,300
- Previous 12 months median: $500
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-18
- Days since latest sale: 92
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- East Coast Books: 50 lots
- Eldred's: 9 lots
- Marion Antique Auctions: 9 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 6 lots
- Skinner: 6 lots
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 6 lots
- Sarasota Estate Auction: 4 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 3 lots
- STAIR: 3 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-02 | Robert Swain Gifford \(American, 1840 \- 1905\) | Helmuth Stone | $550 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-robert-swain-gifford-american-1840-1905-108-c-276c8edfc8
2. 2023-05-17 | ROBERT SWAIN GIFFORD \(New York/Massachusetts, 1840\-1905\), Three etchings, Framed 15.5” x 12.5” and 11.5” x 9.5". | Eldred's | $70
3. 2023-03-11 | Robert Swain Gifford Etching, The Hunter. | Casco Bay Auctions | $30
4. 2019-09-26 | Robert Swain Gifford Etching \[Seaside\] | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $80
5. 2025-11-18 | Robert Swain Gifford \(1840\-1905\), Boats off the coast of a city, 1889 | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
6. 2025-11-09 | Robert Swain Gifford \(1840\-1905\) Coal Pockets at New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1879 | Peterborough Auctions | N/A
7. 2025-11-06 | Robert Swain Gifford \(1840\-1905\): Autumn Landscape | STAIR | $1,500
8. 2025-09-28 | Robert Swain Gifford \(1840 \- 1905\) Hudson River | Helmuth Stone | $1,300 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-robert-swain-gifford-1840-1905-hudson-river-5-c-49843f08e0
9. 2025-09-14 | ROBERT SWAIN GIFFORD \- Coal Pockets at New Bedford | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | N/A
10. 2025-03-30 | ROBERT SWAIN GIFFORD \- Coal Pockets at New Bedford | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | N/A
11. 2025-01-01 | Robert Swain Gifford \(American 1840\-1905\), Shipwreck on Mount Desert Island, Maine, 1887, Oil on canvas, Signature faintly visible lower right R.Swa\_ Gifford 1887, 20" x 30", Condition: does not appear to be relined, ... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $700
12. 2024-12-07 | Robert Swain Gifford \(1840\-1905\) | Marion Antique Auctions | $1,100
13. 2024-12-07 | Robert Swain Gifford \(1840\-1905\) | Marion Antique Auctions | $1,100
14. 2024-12-07 | Robert Swain Gifford \(1840\-1905\) | Marion Antique Auctions | $1,100
15. 2024-11-08 | ROBERT SWAIN GIFFORD \(1840\-1905\) PAINTING, IMPRESSIONIST CREEK LANDSCAPE | Austin Auction Gallery | $550
16. 2024-11-04 | Robert Swain Gifford \(American, 1840 \- 1905\), Landscape, watercolor on paper, summer field with hills in distance, signed and dated 1881 lower right, framed and matted behind glass, wear consistent with age including ... | Winter Associates, Inc. | $300
17. 2024-09-13 | Robert Swain Gifford \(American, 1840\-1905\) Fort Sumter | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $500
18. 2024-05-04 | Robert Swain Gifford \(1840\-1905, New Bedford, | Marion Antique Auctions | $150
19. 2024-05-04 | Robert Swain Gifford \(1840\-1905, New Bedford, | Marion Antique Auctions | $175
20. 2024-05-04 | Robert Swain Gifford \(1840\-1905, New Bedford, MA | Marion Antique Auctions | $125
21. 2023-11-10 | Robert Swain Gifford, Cairo Citadel | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $6,000
22. 2023-08-26 | ROBERT SWAIN GIFFORD \(NY/MA, 1840\-1905\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $3,500
23. 2023-08-19 | Robert Swain Gifford \(Am. 1840\-1905\), Horse and Buggy, Oil on canvas, framed | Barridoff Auctions | $1,200
24. 2023-08-10 | Robert Swain Gifford \(1840\-1905\): Boats in a Choppy Sea | STAIR | $3,000

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