Bertram Priestman Auction Prices and Value Guide
Bertram Priestman auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 182 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Bertram Priestman auction prices: quick answer
Bertram Priestman auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Bertram Priestman
- Source records
- 182
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Bertram Priestman market snapshot
Bertram Priestman shows solid auction liquidity with 66 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $660. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-06-19.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (63.2% · 24 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (36.8% · 14 sales)
- $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $0
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 4
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-06-19
Artist context
About Bertram Priestman
Born
1868
Died
1951
Nationality
British
Bertram Priestman (1868–1951) was a British painter whose surviving public identity records and auction-facing descriptions associate him primarily with landscape painting. Examples in the collected material include Suffolk scenery, pastoral compositions with cattle and figures, and coastal views, most often described as oil on canvas. Collectors may encounter works bearing a signature, initials, or an inscribed date, although those details require examination rather than reliance on catalogue text alone. The available evidence explains Priestman most securely through his identity and representative work types; it does not support assigning him to a specific movement, named series, or fully documented training history. Stable records at Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, RKD, and Art UK provide useful entity-matching anchors. Because the present source set is much stronger on identifiers and individual work descriptions than on scholarly biography, this profile leaves exact birth and death dates, institutional affiliations, and movement labels unresolved rather than filling those gaps speculatively.
Oil on canvasLandscapeCattle and rural figuresCoastal scenery
Common works and media
The collected examples are predominantly landscape paintings in oil on canvas. Documented subjects include Suffolk scenery, cattle beside water, rural figures, and coastal views. Auction and appraisal records may distinguish works by dimensions, support, signature format, date, condition, framing, and provenance. The present evidence does not establish a named series or a complete catalogue of Priestman’s media.
Market and appraisal context
Priestman’s market context should be assessed work by work. The collected auction metadata emphasizes landscape paintings in oil on canvas, including pastoral, cattle, figure, and coastal subjects. Relevant appraisal variables include medium and support, dimensions, subject, signature or initials, inscribed date, condition, frame condition, and documented provenance. These characteristics help determine whether a public auction result is genuinely comparable. The source pack does not provide verified realized prices or enough dated sales to establish a price trend, so comparisons should be restricted to works with similar scale, medium, subject, date, condition, and attribution confidence. Catalogue descriptions and inscriptions are useful evidence, but they should be reconciled with physical examination and provenance research.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- British landscape paintings
- Oil paintings on canvas
- Pastoral and cattle subjects
Value drivers
- Medium, support, and dimensions
- Subject matter and composition
- Signature or initials and inscribed date
- Documented provenance
- Condition and frame condition
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house biography or verified series of realized prices.
- The available work descriptions are auction-derived Wikimedia metadata and should be checked against original catalogues before being used for attribution or valuation.
- No price trend or market direction can be inferred from this source pack alone.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, thin source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF library authority
- RKD library authority
- Art UK museum or university
- Wikimedia Commons wikimedia commons file
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.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Bertram Priestman 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 Bertram Priestman artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.