# William Wilson Cowell - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T15:57:48.307Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 19
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2000-08-19
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-25
- Median realised price: $600
- Price range: $130 to $2,250

## Market Takeaway
William Wilson Cowell has 19 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $600. 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 \($600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($225 to $900\) 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: 80% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 20% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-25
- Days since latest sale: 188
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- DuMouchelles: 2 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- Antique Arena Inc: 1 lots
- Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians: 1 lots
- Cordier Auctions & Appraisals: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Kavanagh Auctions: 1 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 1 lots
- Maison Jules Veilinghuis: 1 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-25 | WILLIAM WILSON COWELL \(AMERICAN 1819\-1898\) | Shapiro Auctions LLC | N/A
2. 2024-09-21 | William Wilson COWELL \(1848\-1910\), oil on canvas Retour des pêcheurs, signed | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | €500
3. 2023-05-27 | ANTIQUE MARINE PAINTING BY WILLIAM WILSON COWELL | Antique Arena Inc | $400
4. 2022-08-28 | William Wilson Cowell, American 1848\-1910 | World Auction Gallery | N/A
5. 2021-12-09 | William Wilson Cowell \(American, 1819\-1898\) Morning Glow Gouache on paper 12\-1/2 | Heritage Auctions | $600
6. 2021-09-25 | William Wilson Cowell, Watercolour, Shoreline | Kavanagh Auctions | CA$140
7. 2021-06-10 | WILLIAM WILSON COWELL \(AMERICAN, 1848\-1910\) SAILING OFF THE COAST, 1871 Oil on canvas: 16 x 22 in., 21 x 27 in. \(framed\) | Potomack Company | $650
8. 2021-03-26 | WILLIAM WILSON COWELL \(AMER/CANADA, 1848\-1910\) WATERCOLOR ON PAPER, H 12.5", W 25.25", SHORELINE | DuMouchelles | $150
9. 2020-06-25 | William Wilson Cowell \(American, 1848\-1910\), Martime Scene | Leland Little Auctions | $1,200
10. 2020-02-15 | William Wilson Cowell \(American, 1848\-1910\) | Cordier Auctions & Appraisals | $225
11. 2018-12-16 | WILLIAM WILSON COWELL OIL ON CANVAS | DuMouchelles | $600
12. 2017-07-20 | WILLIAM WILSON COWELL, American/Canadian, Late 19th Century, Heading in., Oil on board, 10" x 7". Framed 14.5" x 11.5". | Eldred's | $900
13. 2016-03-26 | WILLIAM WILSON COWELL \(b 1856\) OIL ON WOOD PANEL OF SHIPS AND BOATS IN OPEN SEAS. 9" BY 13.25" SIGNED AND DATED 1881 MUCH OF FRAME EDGE MISSING | Sunset Auction | $130
14. 2015-05-29 | Original Oil | The Chattanooga Auction House | $475
15. 2015-03-22 | William Wilson Cowell \(American, 1856\-after 1910\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $900
16. 2011-09-18 | William Wilson Cowell | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
17. 2011-05-17 | WILLIAM WILSON COWELL \(American, 1819\-1898\) Morning Glo | Heritage Auctions | $1,015
18. 2007-04-21 | William Wilson Cowell oil on canvas seascape | The Cobbs | N/A
19. 2000-08-19 | WILLIAM WILSON COWELL \(AMERICAN, B.1856\). SAILING IN NARRAGANSETT BAY. Signed l.r., watercolor on paper. 6 x 19 1/2 inches | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $2,250

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