# William Bruce Ellis Ranken - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T11:17:25.141Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 26
- Lots with prices: 18
- First auction date: 2001-09-06
- Latest auction date: 2024-11-07
- Median realised price: $1,000
- Price range: $54 to $6,000

## Market Takeaway
William Bruce Ellis Ranken has 26 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,000. 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 \($1,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($504 to $2,400\) 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: 44.4% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 55.6% (10 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: $1,700
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-11-07
- Days since latest sale: 540
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 8 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 3 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 3 lots
- Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales: 2 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 2 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Mallams: 1 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots
- STAIR: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-07 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(Scottish, 1881\-1941\) Self Portrait, 1927 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $4,250 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-bruce-ellis-ranken-scottish-1881-1941-self-portrait-1927-72-c-f3b495f96f
2. 2024-11-07 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(Scottish, 1881\-1941\) Portrait of Ernest Thesiger, 1916 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $1,700
3. 2023-07-11 | WILLIAM BRUCE ELLIS RANKEN \(BRITISH 1881\-1941\), EARLY SUMMER | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £2,400
4. 2023-07-11 | WILLIAM BRUCE ELLIS RANKEN \(BRITISH 1881\-1941\), LATE SUMMER | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £3,800
5. 2023-03-08 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(British, 1881\-1941\) 'Jade and Black' | Bonhams | £6,000
6. 2022-03-09 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(British, 1881\-1941\) Summer in the park | Bonhams | £2,500
7. 2021-09-22 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(1881\-1941\): La Galerie des Glaces | STAIR | $2,200
8. 2021-04-28 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken, Tea Room, Stadtschloss, Potsdam | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,700
9. 2016-10-19 | WILLIAM BRUCE ELLIS RANKEN \(1881\-1941\) A Colonnade at Greenwich, signe | Mallams | £820
10. 2016-06-07 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken 1881\-1941 Scottish. 'Portrait of Mrs Kahn'. Watercolour. A fine portrait depicting the sitter at her writing desk bathed with light from a nearby window. Monogrammed lower left and dated 1928. Mounted, glazed and presented in a good giltwood frame. 62 x 48cm. Provenance: From the collection of the late Otto Kahn. | Chiswick Auctions | £360
11. 2016-04-19 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(1881\-1941\) \- Two ladies with a view of Dalswinton House, Dumfries in the distance | Dreweatts 1759 | £310
12. 2016-04-19 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(1881\-1941\) \- Portrait of a lady | Dreweatts 1759 | £806
13. 2016-04-19 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(1881\-1941\) \- Thirty six figural studies and sketches | Dreweatts 1759 | £1,364
14. 2014-09-24 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(1881\-1941\) British. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
15. 2014-02-05 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(1881\-1941\) British. "A | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
16. 2012-11-28 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(British, 1881\-1941\) | Bonhams | N/A
17. 2012-07-26 | WILLIAM BRUCE ELLIS RANKEN \(1881\-1941\) \- Bust Portrait of A Boy. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
18. 2010-08-18 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(British, 1881\-1941\) Study of trees with a view of cottages in the distance | Bonhams | £90
19. 2010-08-18 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(British, 1881\-1941\) Landscape with haystacks | Bonhams | £54
20. 2010-08-18 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(British, 1881\-1941\) Scottish town scenes, a set of two 45 x 67.5cm \(17 11/16 x 26 9/16in\) and 42 x 59.5cm \(16 1/2 x 23 3/8in\). \(2\) | Bonhams | £600
21. 2010-08-18 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(British, 1881\-1941\) The Roman Gardens at Nîmes | Bonhams | £504
22. 2009-12-02 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(1881\-1941\) A Collonade | Woolley & Wallis | N/A
23. 2009-11-10 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(British, 1881\-1941\) Miss McKay and her Macaw | Bonhams | N/A
24. 2009-07-21 | William Bruce Ellis Ranken \(Scottish, 1881\-1941\) | Christie's | £1,000

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