# Samuel Shelley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T13:28:59.361Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 109
- Lots with prices: 68
- First auction date: 2001-10-30
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-03
- Median realised price: $950
- Price range: $50 to $23,524

## Market Takeaway
Samuel Shelley shows solid auction liquidity with 107 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $950. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-03.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($950\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $576 and $2,125.
- 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: 53.7% (36 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 40.3% (27 sales)
- $10,000\+: 6% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $600
- Previous 12 months median: $400
- Median shift: 50%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-03
- Days since latest sale: 77
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 41 lots
- Christie's: 26 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 9 lots
- Cheffins: 4 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 4 lots
- Gorringes: 3 lots
- Hartleys Auctioneers and Valuers: 3 lots
- Sworders: 3 lots
- Akiba Galleries: 2 lots
- Woolley & Wallis: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-03-25 | Samuel Shelley \(English, 1750\-1808\) Georgian 14k Gold Miniature Portrait Brooch | Akiba Galleries | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-samuel-shelley-english-1750-1808-georgian-14k-gold-miniature-portrait-brooch-16-c-da64bafa1c
2. 2025-12-03 | Samuel Shelley \(British, 1750\-1808\) | Cheffins | £420 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-samuel-shelley-british-1750-1808-284-c-0ec7fed78f
3. 2025-09-17 | Samuel Shelley \(1750\-1808\) | Cheffins | £800
4. 2025-04-24 | SAMUEL SHELLEY \(BRITISH, 1750/56\-1808\) | Chiswick Auctions | £600 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-samuel-shelley-british-1750-56-1808-198-c-c314e43971
5. 2025-03-25 | Samuel Shelley \(English, 1750\-1808\) 14k Gold Miniature Portrait Pendant | Akiba Galleries | $650
6. 2024-07-03 | Samuel Shelley \(1750 \- 1808\), Three Girls with a sheet of music | Sloane Street Auctions | £400
7. 2023-09-20 | Samuel Shelley \(1750\-1808\) | Cheffins | £1,000
8. 2022-03-31 | SAMUEL SHELLEY, ATTRIBUTED TO | Koller Auctions | N/A
9. 2021-12-14 | Samuel Shelley \(1756\-1808\) | Sworders | £1,000
10. 2021-10-16 | Samuel Shelley \(British, 1750/56 \- 1808\), "Figural Scene," pencil sketch on paper | Huntington Museum of Art | $50
11. 2021-08-27 | SAMUEL SHELLEY \(UK, 1750\-1808\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $250
12. 2021-04-14 | Samuel Shelley | Neumeister | €1,200
13. 2021-03-30 | SAMUEL SHELLEY \(BRITISH 1750/6\-1808\) | Chiswick Auctions | £225
14. 2020-03-25 | SAMUEL SHELLEY \(BRITISH 1750/56\-1808\) Portrait miniature of the Rev'd James Rusell Deare, chaplain to King George III, wearing dark blue coat, white waistcoat and tied cravat  Signed on the reverse Painted by / Sam. Shelley / George Street Hannover | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
15. 2020-03-25 | SAMUEL SHELLEY \(BRITISH 1750\-1808\) Portrait miniature of a young Gentleman wearing a blue coat with gold buttons and black collar, white waistcoat and red vest, frilled lace cravat  Signed Sam. Shelley and inscribed 6 George Street, Henrietta Square | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
16. 2020-03-25 | SAMUEL SHELLEY \(BRITISH 1750/56\-1808\) Portrait miniature of a Gentleman, circa 1775, wearing a tan coloured coat, white waistcoat and stock, his powdered hair en queue  Signed SShelley on the obverse  Watercolour on ivory  Gold frame, the reverse la | Chiswick Auctions | £360
17. 2020-01-15 | Samuel Shelley \(British, 1750\-1808\) Lady Georgina and Lady Elizabeth Somerset rectangular 97mm \(3 13/16in\) x 127mm \(5in\) | Bonhams | £1,000
18. 2019-06-19 | SAMUEL SHELLEY \(BRITISH 1750\-1808\) | Chiswick Auctions | £937
19. 2019-05-22 | Samuel Shelley \(British, 1750/56 \-1808\) Oval, 64 mm. high, gilt\-metal easel\-stand frame with engraved monogram and coronet surmount | Christie's | £10,000
20. 2019-05-22 | Samuel Shelley \(British, 1750/56 \-1808\) Oval, 64 mm. high, in gilt\-metal frame, the reverse with gold initials 'TH' on plaited hair ground | Christie's | N/A
21. 2019-03-06 | SAMUEL SHELLEY \(BRITISH 1750/6\-1808\) | Chiswick Auctions | £625
22. 2019-03-06 | SAMUEL SHELLEY \(BRITISH 1750/6\-1808\) | Chiswick Auctions | £400
23. 2018-10-03 | SAMUEL SHELLEY \(BRITISH 1750/56 \- 1808\) | Chiswick Auctions | £625 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-samuel-shelley-british-1750-56-1808-21-c-3af45dd9fd
24. 2017-11-29 | Samuel Shelley \(British, 1750\-1808\) Portrait of Gentleman in Blue Jacket | Bonhams | £900

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