# Walter Greaves - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T15:23:10.213Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 188
- Lots with prices: 148
- First auction date: 2002-01-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-29
- Median realised price: $868
- Price range: $30 to $68,500

## Market Takeaway
Walter Greaves shows deep auction liquidity with 188 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $868. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 11 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-29.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($868\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $350 and $3,250.
- 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% (77 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 40.5% (60 sales)
- $10,000\+: 7.4% (11 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 11
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $950
- Previous 12 months median: $480
- Median shift: 97.9%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-29
- Days since latest sale: 112
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 62 lots
- Bonhams: 38 lots
- Roseberys: 9 lots
- Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales: 7 lots
- Mallams: 7 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 6 lots
- Gorringes: 6 lots
- Lots Road Auctions: 6 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 4 lots
- Dawsons Auctioneers: 4 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-04-29 | Walter Greaves \(British, 1846\-1930\) Portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1871 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $37,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-walter-greaves-british-1846-1930-portrait-of-james-abbott-mcneill-whistler-1871-47-c-33e4b50bb7
2. 2025-10-29 | WALTER GREAVES \(BRITISH 1846\-1930\), PORTRAIT OF JAMES ABBOTT MACNEIL WHISTLER | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | N/A
3. 2025-10-22 | Walter Greaves \(1846\-1930\) 'Lime Wharf, Chelsea', pencil signed to the margin, etching,17.5 x 27.5cm Provenance: with Michael Parkin Gallery, Motcomb Street, London. | Mallams | £450
4. 2025-08-20 | WALTER GREAVES \(1846\-1930\) Chelsea Old Church, ink and watercolour, signed, 38 x 27cm | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £1,300
5. 2025-07-10 | WALTER GREAVES \(BRITISH 1846\-1930\), PORTRAIT OF JAMES ABBOTT MACNEIL WHISTLER | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | N/A
6. 2025-06-12 | Walter Greaves \(British, 1846\-1930\), Upper Cheyne Row | Sloane Street Auctions | N/A
7. 2025-06-02 | Walter Greaves \(British 1846\-1930\) | Mallams | £110
8. 2025-03-28 | Walter Greaves \(British, 1846\-1930\), Old Chelsea, The Last Regatta, Circa 1871 | Sloane Street Auctions | £5,500
9. 2025-03-19 | WALTER GREAVES \(1846\-1930\) 'Nocturne' Cremorne Gardens oil on canvas, 17.25" x 23.5" \(44cm x 59.75 | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £300
10. 2025-03-12 | WALTER GREAVES \(BRITISH 1846\-1930\), THE OLD THAMES COFFEE HOUSE | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £950
11. 2025-03-12 | WALTER GREAVES \(BRITISH 1846\-1930\), ON THE THAMES | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £1,050
12. 2025-02-11 | WALTER GREAVES \(BRITISH 1846 \- 1930\), WHISTLER FINISHING THE PORTRAIT OF HIS MOTHER | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £4,500
13. 2024-07-03 | Walter Greaves \(1846 \- 1930\), The Old Swan, Chelsea | Sloane Street Auctions | £220
14. 2024-02-27 | Walter Greaves \- The Thames Coffee House, Chelsea  | Roseberys | £480
15. 2023-12-20 | Bord de Rivière | Hotel des ventes de Lausanne | €350
16. 2023-07-05 | Walter Greaves \(British, 1846\-1930\) Nocturne, Battersea Bridge | Bonhams | £3,200
17. 2023-02-01 | WALTER GREAVES \(BRITISH, 1846–1930\) Portrait of James McNeill Whistler oil | Christie's | $21,420
18. 2022-11-16 | Walter Greaves, British 1846\-1930 Seated girl; pen and brow | Roseberys | £400
19. 2022-11-16 | Walter Greaves, British 1846\-1930 Snow in Battersea; etchin | Roseberys | £340
20. 2022-09-21 | Walter Greaves \(British, 1846\-1930\) Nocturne, Battersea Bridge | Bonhams | £5,000
21. 2022-08-04 | WALTER GREAVES \(BRITISH 1846\-1930\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
22. 2022-04-29 | Walter Greaves \(1846\-1930\), a view of the Thames at Chelsea, pencil and watercolour, signed to lower right corner, 19 cm x 30 cm in unframed mount, together with an etching after the same hand, 'DukeStreet', signed in pencil to the margin, \(and... | Dawsons Auctioneers | £350
23. 2022-04-29 | Walter Greaves \(1846\-1930\), 'Cremorne Hot Air Balloon', etching, signed in the plate and also in pencil to the margin, unframed, 17 cm x 23.5 cm with margins. | Dawsons Auctioneers | £350
24. 2022-04-29 | Walter Greaves \(1846\-1930\), 'Lindsey Wharf, Chelsea', pen and ink, pencil and wash on paper, signed to lower right corner and titled in the margin, unframed, 25 cm x 33 cm to include margin. | Dawsons Auctioneers | £450

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