# William Behnes - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T16:15:57.599Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 19
- Lots with prices: 13
- First auction date: 2001-04-27
- Latest auction date: 2025-01-15
- Median realised price: $800
- Price range: $250 to $2,500

## Market Takeaway
William Behnes has 19 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $800. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($750 to $1,625\) 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: 61.5% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 38.5% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-01-15
- Days since latest sale: 474
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 7 lots
- Hindman: 2 lots
- Roseberys: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 1 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 1 lots
- Potomack Company: 1 lots
- STAIR: 1 lots
- Woolley & Wallis: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-01-15 | WILLIAM BEHNES \(BRITISH 1795\-1864\) | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-behnes-british-1795-1864-117-c-89c4f61b06
2. 2022-04-21 | William Behnes \(British, 1794\-1864\) | Hindman | $750 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-behnes-british-1794-1864-325-c-7eb40ab97c
3. 2023-12-07 | William Behnes, English, 1795\-1864, a white marble… | Roseberys | £950
4. 2021-04-22 | William Behnes \(English, 1794\-1864\) | Hindman | $2,500
5. 2021-03-24 | William Behnes, English, 1795\-1864, a white marble portrait bust of a gentleman, dated 1844, in | Roseberys | £1,700
6. 2016-07-15 | William Behnes \(1795\-1864\): Bust of a Gentleman | STAIR | $800
7. 2016-06-17 | William Behnes \(English, 1795\-1864\), Bust of George Cruikshank | Leland Little Auctions | $750
8. 2015-06-13 | WILLIAM BEHNES \(BRITISH, 1794\-1864\); BRONZE PORTRAIT OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK | Potomack Company | $1,200
9. 2014-09-02 | William Behnes \(British, 1795\-1864\): A white marble portrait bust of a gentleman dated 1857 together with simlar period white marble bust of a gentleman in classical drapery | Bonhams | £1,625 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-behnes-british-1795-1864-a-white-marble-portrait-bust-of-a-gentleman-dated-1857-together-with-simlar-period-white-marble-bust-of-a-gentleman-in-classical-drapery-392-c-a41b1b2b80
10. 2012-03-07 | William Behnes \(1795 \- 1864\): A Victorian painted plaster portrait bust of a gentlemanInscribed to the reverse 'W. BEHNES, Sculptor in Ord\[inary\] to Her MAJESTY' | Bonhams | £525
11. 2012-03-06 | William Behnes \(1795 \- 1864\): A Victorian painted plaster portrait bust of a gentlemanInscribed to the reverse 'W. BEHNES, Sculptor in Ord\[inary\] to Her MAJESTY' | Bonhams | £525
12. 2010-11-03 | William Behnes \(1795\-1864\): A 19th century carved white marble bust of a gentleman | Bonhams | £1,680
13. 2010-09-08 | \[ Miniatures \] | Woolley & Wallis | £250
14. 2010-05-11 | William Behnes \(1795\-1864\): A carved white marble bust of a gentleman | Bonhams | £780
15. 2010-04-08 | William Behnes \(British, 1795\-1864\) A Naval Officer, wearing Captain's full dress coat and epaulettes, his left hand resting on the hilt of his sword | Bonhams | N/A
16. 2010-03-09 | William Behnes \(1795\-1864\): A carved white marble bust of a gentleman | Bonhams | N/A
17. 2007-01-23 | WILLIAM BEHNES \(1795\-1864\) | Christie's | N/A
18. 2001-04-27 | William Behnes | Sotheby's | N/A
19. 2001-04-27 | William Behnes | Sotheby's | N/A

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