# William Banks Fortescue - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-07-26T05:15:41.966Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 34
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2004-11-04
- Latest auction date: 2026-03-25
- Median realised price: $1,015
- Price range: $35 to $120,000

## Market Takeaway
William Banks Fortescue has 34 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,015. 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 \($1,015\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($300 to $3,000\) 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: 47.4% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 42.1% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 10.5% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2026-03-25
- Days since latest sale: 123
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 10 lots
- Woolley & Wallis: 7 lots
- Christie's: 5 lots
- Gorringes: 2 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Subastas Segre: 2 lots
- Alderfer Auction: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Golding Young & Mawer: 1 lots
- Mallams: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-03-25 | William Banks Fortescue \(British, 1850\-1924\) Morning prayers | Bonhams | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-banks-fortescue-british-1850-1924-morning-prayers-59-c-561b8a2ecd
2. 2024-09-17 | WILLIAM BANKS FORTESCUE \- Water carrier. 1883 | Subastas Segre | N/A
3. 2020-09-15 | WILLIAM BANKS FORTESCUE | Subastas Segre | N/A
4. 2024-06-25 | William Banks Fortescue \(1850\-1924\) | Sworders | N/A
5. 2023-03-08 | William Banks Fortescue \(British, 1850\-1924\) The cut finger | Bonhams | £750
6. 2023-03-08 | William Banks Fortescue \(British, 1850\-1924\) The cello player | Bonhams | N/A
7. 2023-03-08 | William Banks Fortescue \(British, 1850\-1924\) February | Bonhams | N/A
8. 2019-11-12 | William Banks Fortescue \(British, 1850\-1924\) A slight mishap | Bonhams | £4,500
9. 2019-06-26 | William Banks Fortescue \(c.1855\-1924\) British. "Unloading the Catch \- Low Tide", Watercolour, Signed, and Inscribed on the reverse, 8.75" x 11". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £80
10. 2019-02-20 | William Banks Fortescue \(British , 1850\-1924\) Putting in broccoli plants, Cornwall | Bonhams | £20,000
11. 2018-07-03 | WILLIAM BANKS FORTESCUE \(BRITISH , 1850\-1924\) \- Lady sewing by an open window | Bonhams | N/A
12. 2018-03-14 | William Banks Fortescue \(English, 1850\-1924\) The model lifeboat | Bonhams | N/A
13. 2017-09-28 | William Banks Fortescue \(1850\-1924, England\) Girl in Blue | Alderfer Auction | N/A
14. 2016-12-21 | William Banks Fortescue \(c.1855\-1924\) British. A River Landscape with a Bridge, and Children by the Water's edge, Watercolour, Signed, 7.75" x 11.25". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £35
15. 2016-03-17 | William Banks FORTESCUE \(1850\-1924\) Oil on canvas News from afar Signed 19.5” x 13.5” \(49.5cm x 34.3cm\) GBP | W.H. Lane & Son | £3,000
16. 2014-06-27 | WILLIAM BANKS FORTESCUE, English, 1850\-1924, "A Cottage Home"., Oil on canvas, 18" x 14". Framed. | Eldred's | $700
17. 2014-06-10 | WILLIAM BANKS FORTESCUE \(English, 1850\-1924\) The | Bonhams | £6,250
18. 2012-05-31 | William Banks Fortescue \(1850\-1924\) | Christie's | N/A
19. 2010-11-05 | William Banks Fortescue \(1855\-1924\) Country | Golding Young & Mawer | £140
20. 2010-05-11 | William Banks Fortescue \(English, 1850\-1924\) 91 x 71cm. | Bonhams | £840
21. 2009-10-22 | William Banks Fortescue \(1850\-1924\) Ducks on a village street 8.5 x 10.5in. | Gorringes | N/A
22. 2009-09-02 | William B. Fortescue \(1850\-1924\) Cattle by a | Woolley & Wallis | £650
23. 2009-09-02 | William B. Fortescue \(1850\-1924\) Games with granny | Woolley & Wallis | £1,300
24. 2009-09-02 | William B. Fortescue \(1850\-1924\) Farmyard scene; | Woolley & Wallis | £300

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