# William Christian Symons - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T23:15:06.984Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 26
- Lots with prices: 18
- First auction date: 2000-12-08
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-22
- Median realised price: $400
- Price range: $30 to $24,000

## Market Takeaway
William Christian Symons has 26 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $400. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200 to $2,400\) 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: 66.7% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 22.2% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 11.1% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $400
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-22
- Days since latest sale: 194
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 7 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Elstob Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Akiba Galleries: 1 lots
- Auctionata US: 1 lots
- Bellmans Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Burstow & Hewett: 1 lots
- Charles Miller Ltd: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Dorotheum: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-22 | William Christian Symons \(1845\-1911\) The Jolly Pianists \- a set of four, each signed and annotated, watercolours en grisaille, 23 x 16cm X 2 and 24 x 17cm X 2 \(framed as one\) | Mallams | N/A
2. 2025-04-29 | William Christian Symons \(English, 1845\-1911\) Oil On Canvas Painting | Akiba Galleries | $650 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-christian-symons-english-1845-1911-oil-on-canvas-painting-460-c-e3d403992d
3. 2024-11-07 | William Christian Symons Painting Men in Foundry | Greenwich Auction | $400
4. 2024-10-24 | William Christian Symons \(1845 \- 1911\), pen and ink wash "the infirmary", unsigned, 25cm x 18cm, framed Good condition, provenance detail verso, vend | Burstow & Hewett | £30
5. 2023-05-09 | WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SYMONS \(1845\-1911\) O/C | Robert Slawinski Auctioneers, Inc. | $200
6. 2022-11-08 | William Christian Symons | Dorotheum | €7,000
7. 2022-11-01 | WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SYMONS \(BRITISH, 1845\-1911\) \- ADMIRAL \(18TH CENTURY\); POST CAPTAIN \(18TH CENTURY\); HEAVING THE LEAD \(18TH CENTURY\) | Charles Miller Ltd | £1,700
8. 2020-10-30 | WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SYMONS \(1845\-1911\), 18TH CENTURY FIGURES DESCENDING STEPS | Elstob Auctioneers | £75
9. 2020-08-15 | WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SYMONS \(1845\-1911\), 18TH CENTURY FIGURES DESCENDING STEPS | Elstob Auctioneers | £85
10. 2020-07-25 | WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SYMONS \(1845 \-1911, ENGLISH\) STONE LITHOGRAPH OF AN ENGLISH NAVAL SOLDIER. FRAME IS 12.75" X 15.75" | Sunset Auction | N/A
11. 2017-11-26 | William Christian Symons \(1845 \- 1911\) | Sarasota Estate Auction | $300
12. 2017-05-03 | William Christian Symons \(1845\-1911\) British. "The Patient", an Interior Scene with Figures, Gouache, Signed, 9.5" x 11.5". Provenance; Bellmans \- Christopher Davies. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £200
13. 2015-05-27 | William Christian Symons | Auctionata US | $10,800
14. 2011-09-20 | William Christian Symons \(1845\-1911\) A CAULKER | Sworders | £2,400
15. 2011-02-16 | William Christian Symons \(1845\-1911\), The Patient, | Bellmans Auctioneers | £80
16. 2009-11-25 | William Christian Symons \(British, 1845\-1911\) Seated boy in the music room | Bonhams | £360
17. 2009-09-15 | William Christian Symons \(British, 1845\-1911\) A centurion | Bonhams | N/A
18. 2009-02-11 | William Christian Symons \(British, 1845\-1911\) Portrait of a lady, 1896 | Bonhams | £600
19. 2006-12-14 | WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SYMONS 1845\-1911 | Sotheby's | £24,000
20. 2005-03-10 | WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SYMONS 1845\-1911 | Sotheby's | N/A
21. 2005-03-10 | WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SYMONS 1845\-1911 | Sotheby's | £7,200
22. 2005-03-10 | WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SYMONS 1845\-1911 | Sotheby's | N/A
23. 2005-03-10 | WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SYMONS 1845\-1911 | Sotheby's | N/A
24. 2005-03-10 | WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SYMONS 1845\-1911 | Sotheby's | N/A

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