Anthony Devis Auction Prices and Value Guide

Anthony Devis auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 180 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Anthony Devis auction prices: quick answer

Anthony Devis auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Anthony Devis
Source records
180
Market update
2026-02-06

Anthony Devis market snapshot

Anthony Devis shows solid auction liquidity with 128 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $300. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-14.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (90.8% · 79 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (9.2% · 8 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$140
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
6
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-14

Artist context

About Anthony Devis

Anthony Devis portrait
Arthur Devis · Public domain · Source

Born

1729

Died

1816

Nationality

British

Also known as

Anthony Thomas Devis

Anthony Devis (1729–1816) was a British landscape painter whose recorded practice centered on watercolor and oil. He is also identified in authority records as Anthony Thomas Devis, an important name variant when matching catalogues and collection records. Public biographical material places him in London and associates him with English landscape painting rather than a named modern movement. Authority data also connects his name with drawings and with subjects such as deer, sheep, and rural scenery. Collectors may therefore encounter his work across both paintings and works on paper, with pastoral or estate-related landscapes among the relevant contexts. Because his career belongs to the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, identity matching should consider historical catalogue wording, medium, subject, and the alternate form of his name. The available institutional identifiers from Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, the Library of Congress, Tate, and museum collections help distinguish him from other artists bearing the Devis surname.

WatercolorOil paintingDrawingLandscapesRural life and livestockDeer and other animals in landscape settings

Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include landscape paintings in oil, watercolors, and drawings or other works on paper. Recorded titles and descriptions point to rural scenery, deer, livestock, and pastoral activity. Cataloguers should preserve the stated medium and attribution wording and search under both Anthony Devis and the authority-record variant Anthony Thomas Devis.

Market and appraisal context

Anthony Devis works should be assessed within the correct medium and object category. A watercolor or drawing should not be compared indiscriminately with an oil painting, even when the subject is similar. Rural landscapes, livestock, and animal subjects documented in authority records can help identify relevant comparable lots. Object-specific appraisal should also examine dimensions, condition, support, inscriptions, attribution wording, provenance, and sale timing, although the collected biographical source pack does not document those details for individual works. Public auction records can provide useful context through sale dates, realized prices, and genuinely similar lots, but the present research does not support a general price prediction or market-trend claim.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Landscape paintings
  • Watercolors and other works on paper
  • Drawings
  • Oil paintings

Value drivers

  1. Medium and work type should be matched carefully because the documented practice includes watercolors, oils, and drawings.
  2. Subject matter is relevant when selecting comparable works; documented titles include landscapes, deer, and sheep-driving scenes.
  3. Public auction records should be compared by work type, subject, sale date, and realized price when sufficiently similar lots are available.
  4. The attribution should be reconciled with authority records that use both Anthony Devis and Anthony Thomas Devis.

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not contain individual realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance histories, or attribution notes, so it does not support a price-level conclusion.
  • No catalogue raisonné or artist-estate source was present in the collected material; attribution questions require object-specific research.
  • Auction comparisons should distinguish oils from watercolors and drawings rather than treating all works attributed to the artist as interchangeable.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Anthony Devis

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Anthony Devis worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

Can Appraisily value my Anthony Devis artwork?

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