# Walter William May - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T14:58:02.951Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 37
- Lots with prices: 24
- First auction date: 2002-05-09
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-17
- Median realised price: $240
- Price range: $30 to $6,584

## Market Takeaway
Walter William May has 37 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $240. 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 \($240\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($125 to $520\) 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: 87.5% (21 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 12.5% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $110
- Previous 12 months median: $30
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-17
- Days since latest sale: 227
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 10 lots
- Reeman Dansie: 5 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 4 lots
- Canterbury Auction Galleries: 3 lots
- Ewbank's: 1 lots
- Golding Young & Mawer: 1 lots
- Gorringes: 1 lots
- Hannam's Auctioneers: 1 lots
- John Taylors: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-17 | WALTER WILLIAM MAY \(1831\-1896\) Steamship and Chinese junks off a harbour with mountains beyond, watercolour | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £110
2. 2024-12-06 | Walter William May \(British, 1831\-1896\), | Kinghams Auctioneers | £120 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-walter-william-may-british-1831-1896-564-c-8de4c5da9d
3. 2024-09-18 | Walter William May \(1831\-1896\) Pastel, Marine scene. 68 cm x 42 cm. | Hannam's Auctioneers | £30
4. 2024-02-20 | Walter William May \(1831\-1896\), a group of three watercolours of marine scenes, all signed, all around 7" x 10 | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £110
5. 2023-10-25 | Walter William May \(1831\-1896\), a group of three watercolours of marine scenes, all signed, all around 7" x 10 | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
6. 2022-02-11 | WALTER WILLIAM MAY \(BRITISH, 1831\-1896\) | Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers | $125
7. 2020-03-19 | Walter William May \(1831\-1896\), On the banks of th | Ewbank's | £30
8. 2017-09-13 | Walter William May \(1831\-1896\) British. A Shipping Scene, with a Boat Towing a Dingy, Watercolour, Signed and Dated '86, 18" x 14". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £170
9. 2017-06-06 | Walter William May \(1831\-1869\) \- Watercolour \- Prison hulks at anchor in the River Medway \(?\), with a three\-decker ship of the line, 14.5ins x 21.5ins, signed, in gilt moulded frame and glazed | Canterbury Auction Galleries | £180
10. 2014-03-15 | Walter William May \(1831\-1896\) \- Portsmouth | Lacy Scott & Knight | £850
11. 2013-02-13 | Walter William May \(1831 \- 1896\), pencil and | Reeman Dansie | £240
12. 2013-02-13 | Walter William May \(1831 \- 1896\), pencil and | Reeman Dansie | £240
13. 2013-02-13 | Walter William May \(1831 \- 1896\), pencil and | Reeman Dansie | £440
14. 2012-04-25 | Walter William May \(1831 \- 1896\) watercolour in | Reeman Dansie | £520
15. 2012-02-14 | Walter William May \(1831\-1896\) \- Oil painting \- | Canterbury Auction Galleries | £280
16. 2011-12-06 | Walter William May \(1831\-1896\) \- Oil painting \- | Canterbury Auction Galleries | N/A
17. 2011-06-28 | WALTER WILLIAM MAY \(1831 \- 1896\) \- " Dutch | Tamlyns | N/A
18. 2010-11-05 | Walter William May \(1831\-1896\) Fishing Smacks and | Golding Young & Mawer | N/A
19. 2010-02-17 | Walter William May \(1831\-1896\) watercolour in | Reeman Dansie | £250
20. 2009-09-03 | Walter William May \(1831\-1896\) Fishing boats off Dordrecht 19 x 30in. | Gorringes | £600
21. 2009-05-19 | Gilt framed watercolour depicting coastal shipping | John Taylors | N/A
22. 2009-04-15 | WALTER WILLIAM MAY \(BRITISH, 1831\-1896\) CONTINENTAL HARBOUR SCENE 26cm x 17cm \(10in x 6.75in\) and another two by the same hand \(3\) | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
23. 2007-04-27 | Walter William May \(1831\-1896\) Sailing Boats At | Neales | £1,200
24. 2003-01-22 | Walter William May \(British,1831\-1896\) On the Scheldt, near Antwerp signed 'W.W.May' and dated '74 \(lower left\), watercolour heightened with white 48.2 x 68.6cm. \(19 x 27in.\) | Bonhams | N/A

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