# William Steeple Davis - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T15:32:32.538Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 30
- Lots with prices: 29
- First auction date: 2009-03-05
- Latest auction date: 2024-10-24
- Median realised price: $325
- Price range: $15 to $1,800

## Market Takeaway
William Steeple Davis has 30 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $325. 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 \($325\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200 to $700\) 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: 86.2% (25 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 13.8% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $750
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-10-24
- Days since latest sale: 553
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- South Bay Auctions Inc: 12 lots
- Aspire Auctions Fine Art & Antiques: 4 lots
- Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches: 2 lots
- Eldred's: 2 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 2 lots
- Myers Fine Art: 2 lots
- Potomack Company: 2 lots
- Alex Cooper: 1 lots
- Pacific Galleries: 1 lots
- Sarasota Estate Auction: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2017-09-16 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(American, Long Island\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $200
2. 2024-10-24 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS , "Orient Long Island, Fair Weather"., Oil on board, 6.5" x 8.5". Framed 7.25" x 9.25". | Eldred's | $750
3. 2024-10-23 | William Steeple Davis \(American, Long Island 1884\-1961\), Spanish Galleon at Sail, 1906, gouache en grisaille on paper | South Bay Auctions Inc | $200
4. 2024-08-21 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS , Seascape, likely Orient Bay, Long Island., Oil on board, 9.5" x 7.5" sight. Framed 15" x 12". | Eldred's | $1,100
5. 2024-03-20 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(Long Island, 1884\-1961\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $150
6. 2024-03-20 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(Long Island, 1884\-1961\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $750
7. 2024-01-31 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(Long Island, 1884\-1961\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $1,300
8. 2023-10-25 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(American, Long Island\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $700
9. 2023-10-25 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(American, Long Island\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $1,300
10. 2023-10-25 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(American, Long Island\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $150
11. 2023-04-30 | William Steeple Davis \(American, 1884\-1961\) Painting | Myers Fine Art | $225 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-steeple-davis-american-1884-1961-painting-117-c-28c48d3947
12. 2022-10-22 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(American, Long Island, 1884\-1961\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $950
13. 2022-03-26 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(American, Long Island\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $550
14. 2021-06-13 | William Steeple Davis \(1884 \- 1961\) New York, W/C | Sarasota Estate Auction | $250
15. 2018-01-30 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(AMERICAN, 1884\-1961\) COUNTRY LANE IN AUTUMN Oil on board: 14 x 12 in. | Potomack Company | $250
16. 2018-01-13 | William Steeple Davis Original Watercolors | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $375
17. 2018-01-13 | William Steeple Davis \(New York\) Block Prints | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $275
18. 2016-08-27 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(1884\-1961\) \- Snowdrift Orient | Southold Historical Society | $250
19. 2015-12-05 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(American, 1884\-1961\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $475
20. 2015-12-05 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(American, 1884\-1961\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $650
21. 2015-09-26 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(AMERICAN, 1884\-1961\) SEASCAPE Oil on canvas: 12 x 16 in. | Potomack Company | $1,800
22. 2015-02-17 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(American. 1884\-1959\) | Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches | N/A
23. 2014-02-25 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \(American. 1884\-1959\) | Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches | $375
24. 2013-04-07 | WILLIAM STEEPLE DAVIS \-American1884\-1969 Painting | Myers Fine Art | $325

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