# William Sartain - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T23:14:06.837Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 40
- Lots with prices: 30
- First auction date: 1995-06-14
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-18
- Median realised price: $1,200
- Price range: $60 to $6,250

## Market Takeaway
William Sartain has 40 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,200. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($1,200\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($400 to $1,700\) 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: 40% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 60% (18 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $750
- Previous 12 months median: $250
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-18
- Days since latest sale: 228
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Heritage Auctions: 4 lots
- Accademia Fine Art: 3 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals: 3 lots
- Eldred's: 2 lots
- Freeman's: 2 lots
- Nadeau's Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- Potomack Company: 2 lots
- Charlton Hall: 1 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-18 | William Sartain \(1843\-1924\), Solitude, circa 1891. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,159
2. 2025-08-30 | William Sartain Painting | Marion Antique Auctions | $750
3. 2025-05-08 | William Sartain, American/Pennsylvania 1843\-1924, "Young America Crushing Rebellion and Sedition", engraving with mezzotint, etching and stipple engraving, Image: 12 x 8 3/4 in. \(30.5 x 22.2 cm.\), Frame: 22 x 18 x 1 in. | Neal Auction Company | $125
4. 2025-04-13 | William Sartain \(American, 1843 \- 1924\) | Helmuth Stone | $1,400
5. 2025-03-22 | William Sartain \(1843\-1924\) Oil on Board | Keystone Auctions LLC | $250
6. 2022-03-06 | WILLIAM SARTAIN \(AMERICAN, 1843\-1924\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $1,000
7. 2021-02-11 | William Sartain \(1843\-1924\): Portrait of a Seated Man | STAIR | N/A
8. 2020-02-18 | William Sartain \(American, 1843\-1924\) Orientalist painting, "Fountain on the Route to Bouzareah, Algiers", oil on canvas, signed " w... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $1,200
9. 2018-06-09 | William Sartain engraving | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $170
10. 2018-06-01 | WILLIAM SARTAIN \(1843\-1924\) OIL ON CANVAS | Dirk Soulis Auctions | $1,900
11. 2016-12-15 | Large American Lithograph Print of George Washington by William Sartain | Hidden Treasures Antiques & Fine Arts | N/A
12. 2016-10-12 | William Sartain, Am.,"On the Plain,Anvers France" | Litchfield Auctions | N/A
13. 2016-09-20 | William Sartain \(American, 1843\-1924\), oil on canvas, Sunset, 12" x 16\-1/4" stretcher, 18" x 22" overall, relined , Property fro... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $800
14. 2016-08-06 | WILLIAM SARTAIN \(Philadelphie 1843\-1924 New\-York\) Alger, le marché animé | Accademia Fine Art | €1,300
15. 2016-06-28 | WILLIAM SARTAIN \(AMERICAN 1843\-1924\): | White's Auctions | $1,500
16. 2016-05-29 | "Day Dreams" Etching. Etched by William Sartain | Kavanagh Auctions | CA$225
17. 2016-03-19 | WILLIAM SARTAIN \(Philadelphie 1843\-1924 New\-York\) Alger, le marché animé | Accademia Fine Art | €1,700
18. 2016-03-19 | WILLIAM SARTAIN \(Philadelphie 1843\-1924 New\-York\) Village animé en Algérie | Accademia Fine Art | €1,200
19. 2016-01-01 | William Sartain \(1843\-1924\) Lincoln and His Family mezzotint engraving marked lower right: Engraved by William Sartain m... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $225
20. 2016-01-01 | William Sartain \(1843\-1924\) General Grant and His Family 1867 mezzotint engraving engraved by William Sartain pencil sig... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $250
21. 2015-11-21 | WILLIAM SARTAIN \(AMERICAN, 1843\-1924\) GREZ\-SUR\-LOING, FRANCE \- THE EDGE OF THE FOREST Oil on canvas: 11 1/4 x 21 in. | Potomack Company | $2,500
22. 2015-06-30 | William Sartain \(American, 1843\-1924\), oil on canvas, Portrait of Woman, signed lower right, 19 1/2" x 15 1/2" sight, 25" x 21" over... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $400
23. 2015-05-02 | WILLIAM SARTAIN \(American, 1843\-1924\) In the Valley of | Heritage Auctions | $6,250
24. 2014-07-29 | WILLIAM SARTAIN \(AMERICAN, 1843\-1924\) WASHINGTON AND HIS FAMILY along with THREE SIMILAR FRAMED WASHINGTON PRINTS Engraving: 17 1/2... | Potomack Company | $550

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