# William Bishop Ford - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-07-26T05:06:27.929Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2003-03-04
- Latest auction date: 2025-04-30
- Median realised price: $500
- Price range: $160 to $2,640

## Market Takeaway
William Bishop Ford has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $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 \($500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($375 to $1,000\) 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: 71.4% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 28.6% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $160
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-04-30
- Days since latest sale: 451
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 11 lots
- Kinghams Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Clars Auctions: 2 lots
- Gorringes: 2 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 1 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Link Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2023-10-05 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\) | Kinghams Auctioneers | £170 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-bishop-ford-british-1832-1922-15-c-be2462eb4c
2. 2022-10-15 | William Bishop Ford \(1832\-1922\), London, Westie Dog Enamel Brooch, signed and dated 1864 | Link Auction Galleries | $450
3. 2020-03-25 | WILLIAM BISHOP FORD \(BRITISH 1832\-1922\) Portrait miniature of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. \(1771\-1832\), after the portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn of 1822, wearing a green coat, yellow waistcoat and black stock Signed and dated 1881 on the reverse Enamel on | Chiswick Auctions | £500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-bishop-ford-british-1832-1922-portrait-miniature-of-sir-walter-scott-bart-1771-1832-after-the-portrait-by-sir-henry-raeburn-of-1822-wearing-a-green-coat-yellow-waistcoat-and-black-stock-signed-and-dated-1881-on-the-reverse-enamel-on-121-c-fa7403ea80
4. 2018-06-26 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\) a gold mounted enamel tiepin decorated with a terrier 89mm. | Gorringes | N/A
5. 2018-06-26 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\) a gold mounted enamel tiepin decorated with a pug 80mm. | Gorringes | N/A
6. 2016-10-18 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\): An enamelled porcelain | Bonhams | £375 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-bishop-ford-british-1832-1922-an-enamelled-porcelain-446-c-a0e4ced92e
7. 2008-11-19 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\) A greyhound named 'Misterton' | Bonhams | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-bishop-ford-british-1832-1922-a-greyhound-named-misterton-19-c-6huv1a8xj9
8. 2005-09-20 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\) | Bonhams | £700
9. 2005-06-30 | WILLIAM BISHOP FORD 1832\-1922 PORTRAITS OF THE GREAT POETS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND | Sotheby's | £2,640
10. 2003-03-04 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\) A Lady, wearing pink and white robes, her left breast | Bonhams | N/A
11. 2025-04-30 | William Bishop Ford \(attr.\), a gold enamel dog portrait brooch | Kinghams Auctioneers | £160 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-bishop-ford-attr-a-gold-enamel-dog-portrait-brooch-9-c-df14e8ca35
12. 2024-09-20 | William Bishop Ford, a late Victorian enamel fox brooch, dated 1887 | Kinghams Auctioneers | £190 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-bishop-ford-a-late-victorian-enamel-fox-brooch-dated-1887-16-c-3e14433ad1
13. 2017-06-18 | \(lot of 105\) William B | Clars Auctions | $1,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lot-of-105-william-b-7487-c-91e436f9b6
14. 2017-05-21 | \(lot of 151\) William B | Clars Auctions | $1,512 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lot-of-151-william-b-6522-c-06246dc855
15. 2016-06-21 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\): An enamelled porcelain plaque ent | Bonhams | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-bishop-ford-british-1832-1922-an-enamelled-porcelain-plaque-ent-347-c-aa04e8ea93
16. 2014-02-25 | William Bishop Ford, British. Miniature portrait painting on porcelain. Artist signed and dated 1860. Portrait of lady is framed in antique wood frame measuring 15" x 17" with image size approx. 6 1/4" x 8 1/4". Frame is not original to painting and | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $650
17. 2012-11-21 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\) | Bonhams | £500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-bishop-ford-british-1832-1922-128-c-79091f4815
18. 2011-11-23 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\) A detail of 'Grafton', from Dignity and Imprudence | Bonhams | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-bishop-ford-british-1832-1922-a-detail-of-grafton-from-dignity-and-imprudence-152-c-18e0a9ba90
19. 2010-11-24 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\), after Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, RA \(1802\-1873\) A detail of Grafton from Dignity and Imprudence | Bonhams | N/A
20. 2010-11-24 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\) Sir Walter Scott \(1771\-1832\), wearing green coat, yellow waistcoat, white chemise, black stock and gold chain | Bonhams | £1,200
21. 2004-02-03 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\) | Bonhams | N/A
22. 2003-11-18 | William Bishop Ford \(British, 1832\-1922\) \(after Thomas Phillips, 1770\-1845\) | Bonhams | £717

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