# William Henry Davis - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T17:01:14.883Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 40
- Lots with prices: 30
- First auction date: 1995-04-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-09
- Median realised price: $3,250
- Price range: $60 to $56,250

## Market Takeaway
William Henry Davis has 40 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,250. 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 \($3,250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,900 to $5,480\) 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: 10% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 86.7% (26 sales)
- $10,000\+: 3.3% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $60
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-09
- Days since latest sale: 295
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 14 lots
- Bonhams: 8 lots
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- Holloway's: 2 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Tennants: 2 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots
- Golding Young & Mawer: 1 lots
- Hutchinson Scott Limited: 1 lots
- Litchfield Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-07-09 | WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS \(1786 \- 1865\). A 19TH CENTURY OIL ON CANVAS SHEEP ON MOORLAND | Hutchinson Scott Limited | £60
2. 2024-07-24 | William Henry Davis \(British, 1786\-1865\) Colonel Newport Charlett's Favourite Greyhounds at Hanley Court, Worcestershire | Bonhams | N/A
3. 2022-09-27 | William Henry Davis \(British, 1786\-1865\) A favourite greyhound | Bonhams | £2,500
4. 2022-06-08 | William Henry Davis \(1786\-1865\) British, portrait of a prize winning sheep, oil on canvas, signed and dated 18 | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £8,500
5. 2020-12-17 | WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS \(BRITISH 1786\-1865\) \- Colonel Newport Charlett's Favourite Greyhounds, at Hanley Court, Worcestershire | Christie's | £56,250
6. 2019-01-30 | William Henry Davis \(British, 1786\-1865\) Preparing the ale dray | Bonhams | N/A
7. 2019-01-30 | William Henry Davis \(British, 1786\-1865\) Durham cow in a landscape | Bonhams | £4,000
8. 2017-12-09 | W. H. Davis oil | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | N/A
9. 2017-09-26 | WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS \(1795\-1865\), SHORTHORN COW IN A LANDSCAPE, signed and d | Thomas Watson | £1,900
10. 2016-12-13 | William Henry Davis \(1783\-1865\) \- A Short Horned Prize Cow | Dreweatts 1759 | £1,240
11. 2016-06-29 | W. H. Davis, Eng., Equine Portrait, O/C, 1851 | Litchfield Auctions | N/A
12. 2014-04-09 | William Henry Davis \(c.1783\-1865\) British. A | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
13. 2013-03-13 | William Henry Davis \(fl. 1803\-1849\) | Christie's | £3,250
14. 2012-03-23 | William Henry Davis \(c.1795\-1885\) Shorthorn heifer | Tennants | £2,800
15. 2011-02-22 | William Henry Davis \(fl. 1803\-1849\) A cow and a | Holloway's | £2,600
16. 2011-02-22 | William Henry Davis \(c.1786\-1865\) 'A South Down | Holloway's | £450
17. 2010-11-05 | William Henry Davis \(c.1783\-1865\) "Manganese" | Golding Young & Mawer | £3,500
18. 2010-03-26 | WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS \(C1786\-C1865\) PORTRAIT OF THE | Mellors & Kirk | £5,500
19. 2009-11-20 | William Henry Davis \(1786/95\-1865\) "Galloway Bull" | Tennants | £3,500
20. 2009-07-22 | William Henry Davis \(1803\-1849\) | Christie's | £1,500
21. 2008-10-28 | William Henry Davis , British d. 1865 portrait of a bull oil on canvas | Sotheby's | N/A
22. 2008-04-11 | WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS \(?\-1865\) "Huntsman astride his | Moore Allen & Innocent | £980
23. 2006-03-21 | William Henry Davis \(British c.1786\-1865\) | Bonhams | £6,800
24. 2006-03-21 | William Henry Davis \(British c.1783\-1865\) | Bonhams | £6,500

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