# William Bell Scott - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T23:13:52.600Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 41
- Lots with prices: 29
- First auction date: 2003-02-19
- Latest auction date: 2024-11-20
- Median realised price: $1,500
- Price range: $10 to $121,875

## Market Takeaway
William Bell Scott has 41 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,500. 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 \($1,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($380 to $3,600\) 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: 34.5% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 48.3% (14 sales)
- $10,000\+: 17.2% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $360
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-11-20
- Days since latest sale: 530
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 14 lots
- Roseberys: 7 lots
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- Anderson\-Garland: 3 lots
- Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers: 3 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Elstob Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Gorringes: 1 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-20 | William Bell Scott,  Scottish 1811\-1890\-  The Garden of Eden; Angel; The Nativity; and There shall | Roseberys | £360 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-bell-scott-scottish-1811-1890-the-garden-of-eden-angel-the-nativity-and-there-shall-251-c-f844cc59e8
2. 2023-10-20 | WILLIAM BELL SCOTT \(BRITISH, 1811\-1890\) A tile design for Penkill Castle: T | Christie's | $3,276
3. 2023-10-20 | WILLIAM BELL SCOTT \(BRITISH, 1811\-1890\) Five designs for tiles for Penkill | Christie's | $8,190
4. 2023-07-19 | William Bell Scott,  Three figures in the doorway of a church  | Roseberys | £420 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-bell-scott-three-figures-in-the-doorway-of-a-church-310-c-2294a6f949
5. 2023-06-15 | WILLIAM BELL SCOTT \(SCOTTISH, 1811\-1890\) Three Rabbits; Two Young Monkeys; | Christie's | $2,142
6. 2023-05-20 | WILLIAM BELL SCOTT \(1811\-1890\) WOMAN LOOKING OUT FOR HER HUSBAND AND BROTHERS | Elstob Auctioneers | £380
7. 2023-03-22 | William Bell Scott \(1811\-1890\) Scottish, A figure scything hay, a church beyond, watercolour, signed, 5.75" x | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £140
8. 2022-12-15 | WILLIAM BELL SCOTT \(BRITISH, 1811\-1890\) Portrait study of a young woman bla | Christie's | £3,024
9. 2022-07-19 | William Bell Scott, | Roseberys | N/A
10. 2022-03-29 | WILLIAM BELL SCOTT \(Scottish, 1811\-1890\) Spanish Student watercolour heightened with white | Leonard Joel | N/A
11. 2022-03-22 | William Bell Scott, Scottish 1811\-1890\- A lady on a terrace with a baby, a duel beyond; pencil | Roseberys | £1,000
12. 2021-12-16 | WILLIAM BELL SCOTT \(BRITISH, 1811\-1890\) Portrait study of a young woman bla | Christie's | N/A
13. 2021-09-30 | WILLIAM BELL SCOTT \(1811\-1890\) Enchanted corner pencil and watercolour on | Christie's | £2,750
14. 2019-02-20 | William Bell Scott \(Scottish, 1811\-1890\) The Norns watering the Tree of Life | Bonhams | £75,000
15. 2018-07-11 | William Bell Scott \(1811\-1890\) \- Thou has left me ever, Jamie | Christie's | £21,250
16. 2017-11-22 | WILLIAM BELL SCOTT \(BRITISH, 1811\-1890\) POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S SISTER 34cm x 25.5cm \(13.5in x 10in\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £1,500
17. 2017-06-13 | WILLIAM BELL SCOTT \(1811\-1890\). "Three head studies mounted as one \- Portrait of Solomon Hart reading, another portrait of Solomon Hart and a portrait of F.B. Barwell" pencil all signed with initials and dated 10 June 1874 each drawing measuring 18.5 x 12.3 cm mounted as one, unframed | Chiswick Auctions | £122
18. 2017-03-26 | William Bell Scott \(1811\-1890\) British London from the Tower of Saint Saviour''s Handcoloured steel engraving | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$10
19. 2017-02-26 | William Bell Scott \(1811\-1890\) British London from the Tower of Saint Saviour''s Handcoloured steel engraving | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
20. 2017-01-29 | William Bell Scott \(1811\-1890\) British London from the Tower of Saint Saviour''s Handcoloured steel engraving | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
21. 2014-12-09 | William Bell Scott | Roseberys | £400
22. 2014-12-04 | William Bell Scott \(1811\-1890\) THE GARDEN AT KINGS | Anderson\-Garland | £180
23. 2014-09-17 | William Bell Scott \(1811\-1890\) THE GARDEN AT | Anderson\-Garland | N/A
24. 2014-06-17 | William Bell Scott | Anderson\-Garland | N/A

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