Edward Robert Smythe Auction Prices and Value Guide
Edward Robert Smythe auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 341 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Edward Robert Smythe auction prices: quick answer
Edward Robert Smythe auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Edward Robert Smythe
- Source records
- 341
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Edward Robert Smythe market snapshot
Edward Robert Smythe shows deep auction liquidity with 272 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-07-09.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (47.6% · 81 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (48.2% · 82 sales)
- $10,000+ (4.1% · 7 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $260
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 4
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-07-09
Artist context
About Edward Robert Smythe
Born
1810
Died
1899
Nationality
English
Edward Robert Smythe (1810–1899) was an English painter whose surviving public-record works place him in the world of nineteenth-century rural and animal painting. Art UK records paintings in British public collections, including scenes of blacksmiths and farriers, laborers returning from work, Suffolk and Essex landscapes, cottages, ponds, horses, and geese. Authority records also associate him with dog subjects, beach scenes, encampments, and quiet narrative compositions such as Reading the Letter. Rather than assigning him to a named movement unsupported by the available evidence, it is more accurate to describe his context as Victorian-era English genre, pastoral, landscape, and animal painting. Collectors are likely to encounter Smythe through works centered on country life, working animals, village trades, and East Anglian scenery. His repeated treatment of horses, smithies, cottages, and rural labor gives his oeuvre a recognizable thematic profile, while institutional holdings help anchor identity when a work is compared with auction or appraisal records.
PaintingRural labor, blacksmiths, and farriersPastoral landscapes, cottages, ponds, and Suffolk or Essex sceneryHorses, dogs, geese, and hunting-related animal subjectsNarrative figure, beach, and encampment scenes
Common works and media
Commonly documented works are paintings of rural English life: blacksmith and farrier interiors, laborers, cottages, ponds, coastal or countryside settings, and landscapes linked to Suffolk or Essex. Animal subjects are prominent, especially horses, dogs, geese, and hunting-related scenes. Authority records also list narrative figure scenes and encampments. The available sources do not establish a reliable pattern of prints, editions, sculpture, ceramics, or posters, so those formats should not be presented as typical without object-specific evidence.
Market and appraisal context
An appraisal of a work attributed to Smythe should begin with identity and attribution, then compare the object’s subject, composition, medium, dimensions, condition, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and date with documented examples and relevant public auction lots. The available sources establish recurring subject groups—rural labor, smithing, horses, dogs, cottages, and pastoral landscapes—but do not provide detailed auction results or a catalogue raisonné. Close object-level comparison is therefore important. Institutional records can help determine whether a composition fits Smythe’s documented body of work, while sale date, lot description, realized price, and comparable works can provide market context when verifiable records are available. No price prediction should be inferred from artist-level listing volume alone.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Nineteenth-century British paintings
- Rural genre and pastoral landscape paintings
- Animal, equestrian, and hunting-related paintings
Value drivers
- Strength of attribution and consistency with the identity and documented work of Edward Robert Smythe
- Subject and composition, particularly their relationship to documented rural, pastoral, smithing, equestrian, and animal themes
- Comparison with documented institutional works and verifiable public auction lots
- Object-specific medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, inscriptions, date, sale date, lot description, and realized price when reliable evidence is available
Appraisal caveats
- Treat artist-level result counts as discovery signals rather than evidence of current value.
- Require object-specific evidence and closely comparable works before reaching a valuation conclusion.
- Do not assign Smythe to a named artistic movement without additional scholarly support.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF library authority
- RKD library authority
- Art UK museum or university
- Appraisily appraisily artist page
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 Edward Robert Smythe 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 Edward Robert Smythe artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.