# Virgil Williams - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T06:20:18.007Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 19
- Lots with prices: 13
- First auction date: 2002-03-22
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-09
- Median realised price: $2,196
- Price range: $625 to $25,000

## Market Takeaway
Virgil Williams has 19 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,196. 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 \($2,196\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,200 to $4,406\) 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: 15.4% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 69.2% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 15.4% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $1,700
- Previous 12 months median: $4,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-09
- Days since latest sale: 141
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 9 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- California Historical Design, Inc: 1 lots
- Cowan's Auctions: 1 lots
- Freeman’s: 1 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots
- Skinner: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-09 | Virgil Williams \(American, 1830\-1886\) Courtyard | Freeman’s | $1,700
2. 2024-08-06 | Virgil Williams \(1830\-1886\) The Pilfering Hen 14 x 12 in. framed 24 x 22 in. \(Painted circa 1875\) | Bonhams | $4,000
3. 2024-03-24 | Virgil Williams \(1830\-1886\) Napa Farmyard Painting 1875 | California Historical Design, Inc | N/A
4. 2022-11-21 | Virgil Williams \(1830\-1886\) Early Los Angeles Adobe Scene 9 x 14 in. framed 16 x 22 in. | Bonhams | $9,500
5. 2022-11-04 | VIRGIL WILLIAMS \(AMERICAN, 1830\-1886\) | Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers | N/A
6. 2020-10-13 | Virgil Williams \(1830\-1886\) Golden Gate at Sunset 26 x 42in framed 32 x 48in \(Painted in 1886.\) | Bonhams | $25,000
7. 2013-10-22 | Virgil Williams \(1830\-1886 St. Helena, CA\) | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
8. 2012-05-01 | Virgil Williams \(American, 1830\-1886\) | Bonhams | $4,375
9. 2010-02-21 | Virgil Williams \(American, 1830\-1886\) Peasant girl on a path with a town in the distance 6 x 4in | Bonhams | N/A
10. 2009-03-16 | Virgil Williams \(American, 1830\-1886\) Portrait of a young girl with a pink sash, 1870 22 x 17in unframed | Bonhams | $2,196
11. 2009-03-15 | Virgil Williams \(American, 1830\-1886\) Portrait of a young girl with a pink sash, 1870 22 x 17in unframed | Bonhams | $2,196
12. 2008-11-24 | Virgil Williams \(American, 1830\-1886\) Still Life with Game Birds 12 1/2 x 9 1/2in | Bonhams | $1,200
13. 2008-11-23 | Virgil Williams \(American, 1830\-1886\) Still Life with Game Birds 12 1/2 x 9 1/2in | Bonhams | $1,200
14. 2008-10-18 | Virgil Williams \(American, 1830\-1886\) Permission | Cowan's Auctions | $4,406
15. 2008-02-05 | Road to Rome | Christie's | $625
16. 2007-06-21 | Road to Rome | Christie's | N/A
17. 2005-11-16 | VIRGIL WILLIAMS \(1830\-1886\) | Christie's | N/A
18. 2004-03-03 | Virgil Williams \(1830\-1886\) | Christie's | $896
19. 2002-03-22 | Virgil Williams \(American, 1830\-1886\) Garden Gate, Nantucket Signed and dated "VWilliams '71" l.r., | Skinner | $12,925

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