# William Morris Hunt - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T14:55:38.546Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 53
- Lots with prices: 45
- First auction date: 1994-09-09
- Latest auction date: 2025-01-24
- Median realised price: $1,763
- Price range: $20 to $391,000

## Market Takeaway
William Morris Hunt has 53 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,763. 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 \($1,763\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($475 to $3,584\) 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: 37.8% (17 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 53.3% (24 sales)
- $10,000\+: 8.9% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $12,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-01-24
- Days since latest sale: 462
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Skinner: 11 lots
- Grogan & Company: 4 lots
- Barridoff Auctions: 2 lots
- Blackwell Auctions LLC: 2 lots
- Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians: 2 lots
- CRN Auctions: 2 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- James D. Julia: 2 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- The Cobbs: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2022-12-07 | William Morris Hunt \(1824\-1879\): The Listeners | STAIR | $3,750
2. 2025-01-24 | Sunset | Sotheby's | $12,000
3. 2024-10-16 | William Morris Hunt | Brunk Auctions | N/A
4. 2024-04-13 | William Morris Hunt \(Am. 1824\-1879\), Portrait of a Woman, Oil on panel, framed | Barridoff Auctions | $1,200
5. 2023-11-16 | William Morris Hunt \(attrib.\), oil on board | Millea Bros Ltd | $475
6. 2023-11-10 | William Morris Hunt, Portrait of Charles Dickens | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $6,000
7. 2023-05-18 | William Morris Hunt, Portrait of Julia Dabney | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $750
8. 2023-01-25 | William Morris Hunt \(American, 1824\-1879\) Landscape with Majestic Trees and Distant Grazing Flock 16 x 22 in. \(40.5 x 55.5 cm\) framed 19 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. | Bonhams | $2,200
9. 2022-10-07 | WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT OIL PORTRAIT | New Hampshire Auctions and Appraisals LLC | N/A
10. 2022-10-04 | William Morris Hunt, Maj. Chas. Jarvis of Vermont | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $4,400
11. 2022-05-07 | WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT, Massachusetts O/C | Blackwell Auctions LLC | $550
12. 2022-01-22 | HURDY GURDY BOY PRINT AFTER WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT | Antique Arena Inc | N/A
13. 2021-06-17 | William Morris Hunt Lithograph \[Boating Scene\] | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $20
14. 2021-02-06 | WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT, attrib O/C | Blackwell Auctions LLC | N/A
15. 2020-09-30 | William Morris Hunt \(American, 1824\-1879\) Return from the Fields | Hindman | $3,584
16. 2019-10-06 | WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT \(American, 1824\-1879\) | CRN Auctions | $1,600
17. 2019-07-21 | WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT PAINTING | Freedom Auction Company | $1,600
18. 2018-09-30 | WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT \(American/Vermont, 1824\-1879\) | CRN Auctions | $500
19. 2018-03-24 | WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT \(AMERICAN, 1824\-1879\) LITTLE GIRL Oil on canvas: 14 x 12 in. | Potomack Company | $2,750
20. 2017-06-03 | William Morris Hunt \(1824\-1879\), pastel on paper, portrait bust of a bearded man, signed lower right: W. Hunt, 24" x 20". | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $275
21. 2016-07-23 | William Morris Hunt | Nathan Auction & Real Estate Inc. | $325
22. 2016-02-03 | WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT \(American, 1824\-1879\) MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF GENTLEMAN WITH TOP HAT. | James D. Julia | $207
23. 2015-11-14 | William Morris Hunt \(American, 1824\-1879\) Group of 5 Painted & Lithographed Prints | Cottone Auctions | N/A
24. 2015-05-24 | WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT \(AMERICAN 1824\-1879\). FOUR SMALL SKETCHES OF A YOUNG GIRL, "MAGNOLIA SKETCHES \#1," CIRCA 1870. | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $1,200

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