# William Bruce - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T14:56:55.756Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 25
- Lots with prices: 21
- First auction date: 2009-02-10
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-01
- Median realised price: $1,700
- Price range: $200 to $17,080

## Market Takeaway
William Bruce has 25 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,700. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($1,700\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($600 to $2,750\) 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: 42.9% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 52.4% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 4.8% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $2,300
- Previous 12 months median: $1,700
- Median shift: 35.3%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-01
- Days since latest sale: 244
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Cottone Auctions: 3 lots
- Litchfield Auctions: 3 lots
- Clars Auctions: 2 lots
- One Source Auctions: 2 lots
- Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.: 1 lots
- Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians: 1 lots
- Burchard Galleries Inc: 1 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-01 | William Bruce \(American, b.1861, d.1911\) Pastoral Landscape Overlooking Owasco Lake Oil on Canvas Painting c. 1890 FRAMED | One Source Auctions | $2,900
2. 2025-06-22 | William Bruce \(American, 1861 \- 1911\) | Helmuth Stone | $2,300
3. 2024-05-27 | William Bruce \(American, b.1861, d.1911\) Pastoral Landscape Depicting Cows Grazing Auburn, N.Y. 1906 Oil on Board Painting FRAMED | One Source Auctions | $1,700
4. 2024-04-05 | WILLIAM BRUCE \(New York, 1861\-1911\), "On the Delaware River"., Oil on canvas, 16" x 11". Framed 18.5" x 23.5". | Eldred's | $2,300
5. 2024-02-11 | WILLIAM BRUCE \(AMERICAN, 1861\-1911\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $600
6. 2023-11-30 | William Bruce \(American, 1861\-1911\) Landscape | Cottone Auctions | $700
7. 2022-09-10 | WILLIAM BRUCE \(1861\-1911\) 'HAY FARMER AT COAST" | John McInnis Auctioneers | $1,700
8. 2019-03-26 | William Bruce \(1861\-1911\) Mountain Cabin 18 x 30 1/4in overall: 27 1/2 x 39 1/2in | Bonhams | N/A
9. 2018-08-07 | William Bruce \(1861\-1911\) Mountain Cabin 18 x 30 1/4in overall: 27 1/2 x 39 1/2in US$ 3,000 \- 5,000 | Bonhams | N/A
10. 2018-03-04 | William Bruce, Signed 1905 New York Landscape Oil | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | $2,750
11. 2018-01-20 | William Bruce, Am.,Sheep Entering Meadow,O/B | Litchfield Auctions | $550
12. 2018-01-20 | William Bruce,Am.,Girl with Geese, O/C | Litchfield Auctions | $425
13. 2018-01-20 | William Bruce, Am., Figures with Carraige, O/B | Litchfield Auctions | $700
14. 2017-10-05 | William Bruce \(1861\-1911\), SHEEP GRAZING IN A PASTURE, Oil on canvas; signed “W. Bruce” lower left, 20" x 30" — 50.8 x 76.2 cm. | Waddington's | N/A
15. 2017-03-26 | TWO FRAMED SIAMESE CAT PAINTINGS BY WILLIAM BRUCE | Burchard Galleries Inc | $200
16. 2016-09-18 | William Bruce, Painting | Clars Auctions | $3,250
17. 2016-03-19 | William Bruce, watercolor | Clars Auctions | N/A
18. 2016-02-17 | WILLIAM BRUCE \(AMERICAN, 1861\-1911\) Seated White T | Bonhams | $4,625
19. 2016-02-03 | WILLIAM BRUCE \(American, 1861\-1911\) LANDSCAPE WITH LAKE AND SHEEP. | James D. Julia | $2,370
20. 2015-09-26 | William Bruce \(American, 1861\-1911\) "Mohawk Valley" | Cottone Auctions | $920
21. 2014-02-17 | O/C "Hunters Cabin" by William Bruce | Louis J. Dianni, LLC | $325
22. 2013-09-22 | William Bruce | Fairfield Auction, LLC | $550
23. 2010-11-06 | William Bruce \(American, 1861\-1911\) Beagle | Cottone Auctions | $1,500
24. 2009-10-25 | WILLIAM BRUCE \(AMERICAN 1861\-1911\). TWO ENGLISH BULLDOGS. | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $4,972

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