# Thomas Hovenden - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T10:04:43.393Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2002-09-20
- Latest auction date: 2026-01-07
- Median realised price: $800
- Price range: $20 to $75,000

## Market Takeaway
Thomas Hovenden has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $800. 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 \($800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($125 to $14,000\) 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: 57.9% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 15.8% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 26.3% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $140
- Previous 12 months median: $140
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2026-01-07
- Days since latest sale: 114
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- Adam's: 2 lots
- Copake Auction Inc.: 2 lots
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.: 1 lots
- Akiba Galleries: 1 lots
- Burchard Galleries Inc: 1 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots
- Dirk Soulis Auctions: 1 lots
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-03-09 | Thomas Hovenden \(1840\-1895\) The Old Shaver, 1887 | Peterborough Auctions | $140 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-thomas-hovenden-1840-1895-the-old-shaver-1887-289-c-a4d4e8b977
2. 2023-12-05 | Thomas Hovenden \(American, 1840–1895\) \- The Last Moments of John Brown | Freeman's \| Hindman | N/A
3. 2023-02-07 | Thomas Hovenden \(Irish, 1840\-1895\) "Reverie" Oil Painting on Canvas | Akiba Galleries | $18,000
4. 2022-03-19 | Thomas Hovenden \(1840\-1895\) | Copake Auction Inc. | $20
5. 2022-03-19 | Thomas Hovenden \(1840\-1995\) | Copake Auction Inc. | $20
6. 2020-05-28 | Thomas Hovenden \(1840 \- 1895\) Large Signed Etching | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $110
7. 2020-02-11 | Thomas Hovenden \- Breton Icon Seller | Capsule Gallery Auction | $14,000
8. 2018-06-01 | THOMAS HOVENDEN \(1840\-1895\) OIL ON CANVAS | Dirk Soulis Auctions | $3,750
9. 2017-11-13 | THOMAS HOVENDEN \| Girl with Cabbage | Sotheby's | $75,000
10. 2017-01-15 | Thomas Hovenden, "Portrait of a Man", Oil | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | N/A
11. 2016-01-31 | Thomas Hovenden \- 19th C American Interior Scene | Greenwich Auction | N/A
12. 2015-06-28 | THOMAS HOVENDEN ETCHING OF A GENTLEMAN WITH BANJO | Burchard Galleries Inc | $175
13. 2013-12-04 | Thomas Hovenden \(1840\-1895\) A Wayside Chat Oil on | Adam's | N/A
14. 2013-03-04 | Thomas Hovenden \(1840\-1895\) STUDY OF A YOUNG WOMAN SEEN IN THREE QUARTER PROFILE FROM BEHIND | Whyte's | €950
15. 2012-11-05 | Drawing of Robert E Lee by Thomas Hovenden | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $800
16. 2012-11-05 | Framed Pencil Studies by Thomas Hovenden | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $125
17. 2011-06-01 | Thomas Hovenden \(1840\-1895\) The Story of the Hunt | Adam's | €47,000
18. 2009-12-08 | Thomas Hovenden, American, 1840\-1895, etched by Hamilton Hamilton, American, 1847\-1928, In the Hands of The Enemy, 22 1/2" x 31 3/4"... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $125
19. 2005-09-16 | THOMAS HOVENDEN 1840\-1895 | Sotheby's | $24,000
20. 2005-06-22 | THOMAS HOVENDEN 1840\-1895 SEATED WOMAN SMOKING A CORN\-COB PIPE | Sotheby's | $2,160
21. 2005-06-21 | THOMAS HOVENDEN 1840\-1895 SEATED WOMAN SMOKING A CORN\-COB PIPE | Sotheby's | $2,160
22. 2026-01-07 | Thomas Hovenden 1885 "Dem Was Good Ole Days" Signed Etching | University Archives | $140 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-thomas-hovenden-1885-dem-was-good-ole-days-signed-etching-169-c-c713396a9e
23. 2002-09-20 | Thomas Hovenden \(Irish/American, 1840\-1895\) The Warmth of the Hearth, 1886. Signed ""Thos Hovenden"" in pencil l.r. and with remarque, | Skinner | $206

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