# William Ashford - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-06-16T05:55:03.157Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 21
- Lots with prices: 12
- First auction date: 2003-05-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-16
- Median realised price: $21,250
- Price range: $90 to $329,600

## Market Takeaway
William Ashford has 21 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $21,250. 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 \($21,250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($6,250 to $38,000\) 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: 8.3% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 25% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 66.7% (8 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $38,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 175
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 7 lots
- Adam's: 4 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Antique Arena Inc: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Fontaine's Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen Düsseldorf: 1 lots
- Historia Auctionata: 1 lots
- Veritas Art Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-05-15 | WILLIAM ASHFORD \(1746 \- 1824\) Figures by the Temple in the Park at Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin, with Dublin and Dublin Bay in the background Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 128.3cm Provenance: ChristieÕs 17 April 1964 \(lot 46\); Collection of Desmond Guinn | Adam's | €38,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-ashford-1746-1824-figures-by-the-temple-in-the-park-at-mount-merrion-co-dublin-with-dublin-and-dublin-bay-in-the-background-oil-on-canvas-91-4-x-128-3cm-provenance-christieos-17-april-1964-lot-46-collection-of-desmond-guinn-40-c-46247b3ac6
2. 2024-12-04 | William Ashford \(1746 \- 1824\) Figures by the Temple in the Park at Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin, with Dublin and Dublin Bay in the background Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 128.3 \(36 x 50½''\) Provenance: Christie’s 17 April 1964 \(lot 46\); Collection of Des | Adam's | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-ashford-1746-1824-figures-by-the-temple-in-the-park-at-mount-merrion-co-dublin-with-dublin-and-dublin-bay-in-the-background-oil-on-canvas-91-4-x-128-3-36-x-501-2-provenance-christie-s-17-april-1964-lot-46-collection-of-des-44-c-72d443fa91
3. 2025-12-16 | William Ashford \(c. 1746\-1824\), View of Ballyshannon, County Donegal and Landscapes with river, mountains, figures and animals | Veritas Art Auctioneers | N/A
4. 2025-05-15 | WILLIAM ASHFORD \(c.1746\-1824\) A wooded landscape, with figures and livestock on a path and ruins beyond Oil on canvas, 53.5 x 74.9 cm Signed and dated 'W.Ashford 1809' \(lower centre\) Provenance: Christie's, London, 20 November 1981, lot 75 | Adam's | N/A
5. 2024-09-13 | WILLIAM ASHFORD \(ZUGESCHRIEBEN\) DIE RÜCKKEHR DER FISCHER, D | Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen Düsseldorf | N/A
6. 2023-11-18 | ANTIQUE ENGLISH IRISH OIL PAINTING BY WILLIAM ASHFORD | Antique Arena Inc | $90
7. 2023-05-25 | WILLIAM ASHFORD \(1746\-1824\) Sportsmen in a wooded river landscape, a count | Christie's | £40,320
8. 2022-04-04 | William Ashford \(ca.1746\-1824\) | Historia Auctionata | €1,800
9. 2019-03-20 | WILLIAM ASHFORD \(BIRMINGHAM C.1746\-1824 DUBLIN\) | Chiswick Auctions | £6,250
10. 2018-07-06 | William Ashford \(Birmingham c. 1746\-1824 Dublin\) \- A wooded landscape with a herder and his flock on a path, ruins beyond | Christie's | N/A
11. 2016-12-01 | William Ashford c. 1746\-1824\) Gibraltar oil on canvas 20 x 36 in. 50.8 x 91 | Christie's | N/A
12. 2016-11-02 | William Ashford \(Birmingham 1746\-1824 A wooded river landscape lo | Christie's | £21,250
13. 2015-07-08 | William Ashford \(Birmingham 1746\-1824 Dublin\) A landscape based | Bonhams | N/A
14. 2013-10-14 | WILLIAM ASHFORD \(1746\-1824\) A View of Dawson's | Adam's | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-ashford-1746-1824-a-view-of-dawson-s-640-c-fda3a07c3b
15. 2011-03-29 | WILLIAM ASHFORD | Sotheby's | N/A
16. 2008-02-23 | WILLIAM ASHFORD 1746\-1824 RURAL SCENE | Fontaine's Auction Gallery | $9,775
17. 2006-05-12 | William Ashford \(c.1746\-1824\) | Christie's | £31,200
18. 2006-01-26 | WILLIAM ASHFORD, P.R.H.A. BIRMINGHAM CIRCA 1746\-1824 DUBLIN | Sotheby's | $329,600
19. 2004-05-14 | William Ashford \(c.1746\-1824\) | Christie's | £20,315
20. 2003-11-27 | WILLIAM ASHFORD 1746\-1824 | Sotheby's | £134,400
21. 2003-05-15 | William Ashford \(1746\-1824\) | Christie's | $27,437

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