Frederick John Widgery Auction Prices and Value Guide

Frederick John Widgery auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 775 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Frederick John Widgery auction prices: quick answer

Frederick John Widgery auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Frederick John Widgery
Source records
775
Market update
2026-02-16

Frederick John Widgery market snapshot

Frederick John Widgery shows very deep auction liquidity with 508 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $400. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 10 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-09.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (84.3% · 296 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (15.7% · 55 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$70
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
10
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-09

Artist context

About Frederick John Widgery

Frederick John Widgery portrait
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Source

Born

1861

Died

1942

Nationality

English

Also known as

F. J. Widgery, Frederick J. Widgery

Frederick John Widgery (1861–1942) was an English painter associated with the landscapes and coastlines of south-west England. Art UK records works in public collections depicting Devon seascapes, Dartmoor, the Mouth of the Yealm, Lydford Gorge and the River Tavy. This institutional footprint supports a clear picture of a place-based practice centered on moorland, rivers and the coast, although the available sources do not justify assigning him to a particular art movement. Authority files from Wikidata, VIAF and Getty ULAN distinguish Widgery and preserve name variants such as F. J. Widgery. Collectors may therefore encounter his work under abbreviated forms as well as his full name. His recurring Devon subjects provide useful geographic clues for cataloguing, while a secondary biography also associates his coastal work with Cornwall. For appraisal and entity matching, the strongest starting points are his dates, authority identifiers, catalogued name, depicted location and documented institutional or auction records.

PaintingDevon landscapesCoastal views and seascapesDartmoor landscapesRivers, gorges and named south-west English locations

Common works and media

Works associated with Widgery most commonly take the form of landscape and coastal paintings. Documented subjects include Devon seascapes, Dartmoor views, the Mouth of the Yealm, Lydford Gorge and the River Tavy, alongside more generally titled coastal scenes. Cornwall is also associated with his coastal subject matter in the available secondary biography. The source pack does not provide enough work-level technical data to state reliably whether a particular auction lot is oil, watercolor or another medium, so the material and support should be verified directly for each object.

Market and appraisal context

Widgery’s market should be considered work by work, with attention to whether a lot depicts a Devon or Dartmoor landscape, river, gorge, coastal view or seascape. Institutional titles recorded by Art UK show that named locations can be central to identification, so comparable auction records should be matched as closely as possible by subject and geography. Authority-recorded name variants also matter when searching sale archives. The supplied source pack indicates an extensive auction-directory footprint but provides no accessible lot-level results, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, detailed medium information or realized prices. Those omissions prevent a defensible price trend or prediction. A valuation should therefore begin with verified object details and use genuinely comparable public sales when they are available.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • British landscape paintings
  • Devon and Dartmoor views
  • Coastal views and seascape paintings
  • River and gorge landscapes

Value drivers

  1. Match comparable works by depicted geography and subject, distinguishing named Devon or Dartmoor views, river landscapes, coastal views and general seascapes
  2. Search auction records under the full name and authority-recorded variants such as F. J. Widgery and Frederick J. Widgery
  3. Use institutional collection records to corroborate characteristic locations and subject categories before selecting auction comparables
  4. Evaluate public auction records at lot level rather than inferring value from the number of records associated with the artist

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house lot pages, realized prices, condition reports, dimensions, provenance histories or detailed medium data.
  • The Appraisily artist-page request returned HTTP 429, so its individual auction records could not be reviewed from this source pack.
  • The evidence supports auction categories and comparison methodology, but it does not support a price prediction, price trend or claim about relative scarcity.
  • No movement or school attribution was supported strongly enough to include.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

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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 Frederick John Widgery

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Frederick John Widgery 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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