Dora Wilson Auction Prices and Value Guide

Dora Wilson auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 176 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Dora Wilson auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Dora Wilson
Source records
176
Market update
2026-02-16

Dora Wilson market snapshot

Dora Wilson shows solid auction liquidity with 68 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-09.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (24.5% · 12 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (55.1% · 27 sales)
  • $10,000+ (20.4% · 10 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$3,800
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
8
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-09

Artist context

About Dora Wilson

Dora Wilson portrait
Pegg Clarke · Public domain · Source

Born

1883

Died

1946

Nationality

Australian

Also known as

Dora Lynnell Wilson, Dora L. Wilson

Dora Lynnell Wilson (1883–1946) was a British-born Australian artist identified by authority records as a painter and remembered particularly for etchings and street scenes. Public catalogues may also name her as Dora L. Wilson, making name normalization important when matching works, auction records, and collection entries. The available source pack supports her Australian artistic identity and printmaking practice, but it does not establish a specific movement, school, exact birth or death date, or detailed career chronology. This profile therefore avoids assigning her to a stylistic group that the collected evidence does not document. Collectors are most likely to encounter her through etched works and images of urban streets, while the authority description as a painter indicates that painted works may also appear. Because the available biographical evidence is concise, individual objects should be assessed from their own medium, subject, inscription, and documented cataloguing rather than from broad assumptions about her career.

EtchingPaintingStreet scenes

Common works and media

The best-supported recurring categories are etchings and street scenes. Wilson is also identified as a painter, so paintings may appear in auction or appraisal contexts, although the collected sources do not specify their usual supports, dimensions, or dates. No sculpture, ceramics, posters, named series, or edition practice is established by this source pack.

Market and appraisal context

Market comparison should begin by separating etchings from paintings and comparing street scenes with works of genuinely similar subject and medium. Cataloguing under Dora Wilson, Dora L. Wilson, or a fuller middle-name form should be reconciled against the authority record before records are treated as referring to the same artist. The collected Appraisily input indicates an auction-record presence, but the public page could not be read during collection and the source pack contains no lot-level sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, edition information, or provenance. Accordingly, this profile does not infer a price trend or typical value range. A defensible appraisal requires comparable public records matched to the object’s confirmed medium, subject, date when known, and attribution.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Etchings and other works on paper
  • Paintings
  • Street scenes

Value drivers

  1. Confirmed medium, particularly whether an object is an etching or a painting
  2. Subject classification, including whether the work depicts a street scene
  3. Identity and attribution alignment across the names Dora Wilson, Dora L. Wilson, and Dora Lynnell Wilson

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected market page was rate-limited, and the source pack contains no inspectable lot-level sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, edition details, or provenance.
  • The supplied auction-record count is a directory-coverage signal, not evidence of a typical value, price level, or market trend.
  • No price prediction or trend conclusion should be drawn without reconciled comparable lots.

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 Dora Wilson

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Dora Wilson 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.

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