# William Kidd - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-06-19T01:44:29.470Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2005-07-20
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-11
- Median realised price: $850
- Price range: $25 to $3,750

## Market Takeaway
William Kidd has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $850. 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 \($850\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($550 to $1,600\) 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: 57.1% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 42.9% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $550
- Previous 12 months median: $850
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-11
- Days since latest sale: 189
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 4 lots
- Hutchinson Scott Limited: 2 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Blackwell Auctions LLC: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots
- Embassy Auctions International: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-11 | William Kidd \(1790\-1863\), HIS FIRST LESSON | Waddington's | CA$550
2. 2025-10-25 | William Kidd, around 1790\-1863, multi\-figure family scene | Henry's Auktionshaus | N/A
3. 2025-01-23 | WILLIAM KIDD \(SCOTTISH 1790\-1863\) A 19TH CENTURY OIL ON BOARD ÒTHE BEADLEÓ | Hutchinson Scott Limited | £920
4. 2024-10-31 | WILLIAM KIDD \(SCOTTISH 1790\-1863\) A 19TH CENTURY OIL ON BOARD ÒTHE BEADLEÓ | Hutchinson Scott Limited | £850
5. 2024-03-27 | Attributed to William Kidd | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | N/A
6. 2024-03-27 | Attributed to William Kidd | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | N/A
7. 2023-12-07 | WILLIAM KIDD \(SCOTTISH 1790\-1863\) THE BEADLE | Lyon & Turnbull | £1,600
8. 2023-11-21 | Attributed to William Kidd | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | N/A
9. 2023-11-21 | Attributed to William Kidd | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | N/A
10. 2021-06-10 | WILLIAM KIDD \(SCOTTISH 1790\-1863\) AN UNWELCOME SURPRISE | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
11. 2020-03-22 | WILLIAM KIDD \(BRITISH, 1790\-1863\) | Clarke Auction Gallery | $1,500
12. 2019-02-05 | WILLIAM KIDD, H.R.S.A. \| Threading the Needle  | Sotheby's | £800
13. 2018-04-14 | William Kidd \(British, 1790\-1863\) Oil on Canvas | Blackwell Auctions LLC | $350
14. 2017-02-26 | WILLIAM KIDD \(British 1790\-1863\) A PAINTING, "The Fisherman and his Wife," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | N/A
15. 2013-11-10 | William Kidd \(British, 1790\-1863\) The kite 20 x 24in | Bonhams | $1,875
16. 2013-10-05 | WILLIAM KIDD \(SCOTTISH, 1790\-1863\) THREADING THE NEEDLE Oil on canvas: 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. | Potomack Company | $1,200
17. 2013-03-20 | 1819 Jean Pierre Jazet Etching After William Kidd | Embassy Auctions International | $25
18. 2010-06-03 | WILLIAM KIDD | Sotheby's | $3,750
19. 2009-11-12 | WILLIAM KIDD \(British, 1790\-1863\) Craigleith | Heritage Auctions | $1,792
20. 2008-09-16 | WILLIAM KIDD \(1790\-1863\) \- Old Edinburgh, Oil | Thomas Watson | £500
21. 2007-10-03 | William Kidd \(1790\-1863\) Interior with a poacher | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
22. 2005-07-20 | William Kidd \(British, 1790\-1863\) | Christie's | £600

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