Frederick Waters Watts Auction Prices and Value Guide
Frederick Waters Watts auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 221 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Frederick Waters Watts auction prices: quick answer
Frederick Waters Watts auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Frederick Waters Watts
- Source records
- 221
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Frederick Waters Watts market snapshot
Frederick Waters Watts shows deep auction liquidity with 177 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,629. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-02-10.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (28.1% · 25 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (51.7% · 46 sales)
- $10,000+ (20.2% · 18 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $1,651
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 4
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2026-02-10
Artist context
About Frederick Waters Watts
Born
1800
Died
1870
Nationality
English
Also known as
Frederick W. Watts, Frederic William Watts, William Watts, William Frederick Watts
Frederick Waters Watts (1800–1870) was an English landscape painter whose work belongs to the tradition of nineteenth-century British landscape painting. The available biographical material associates his approach with the influence of John Constable, although the collected institutional excerpts do not provide a fuller account of that relationship. Watts is documented under several names, including Frederick W. Watts, Frederic William Watts, William Watts, and William Frederick Watts, making authority records particularly useful for entity matching. Surviving examples in the source pack depict English scenery shaped by rivers, bridges, locks, mature trees, abbeys, and village churches. Named locations include Hendon, Windsor, Tintern Abbey, and the upper Thames. Collectors may therefore encounter his work as oil landscapes on canvas or card, often organized around recognizable rural architecture or waterways. These subjects and the artist's multiple recorded names make careful comparison of titles, supports, dimensions, provenance, and attribution especially important.
Oil on canvasOil on cardEnglish landscapesRivers, bridges, and locksAbbeys and village churches in landscape settings
Common works and media
The source pack most clearly documents easel landscapes in oil on canvas and oil on card. Recorded subjects include river valleys, bridges, locks, wooded scenery, abbeys, and village churches, with examples connected to Hendon, Windsor, Tintern Abbey, and the upper Thames. No reliable evidence in the pack establishes a print, sculpture, ceramic, or editioned-work practice.
Market and appraisal context
Appraisal of a work attributed to Frederick Waters Watts begins with identity, because several forms of his name appear in public records. For an individual picture, useful comparison points include the medium and support, dimensions, named location, landscape subject, and documented provenance. River scenes, bridges, locks, abbeys, and village churches are among the subjects represented in the collected examples. Comparable public auction records should be matched as closely as possible by work type, scale, subject, attribution, sale date, and catalogue context. The supplied source pack identifies an auction-facing Appraisily artist page but contains no extracted realized prices, condition reports, or detailed auction-house entries. It therefore supports a framework for comparison, not a price prediction or claim about market direction.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- British landscape paintings
- Oil paintings on canvas or card
Value drivers
- Identity and attribution should be checked against the artist's documented variant names.
- Medium, support, and dimensions help distinguish individual works and suitable comparables.
- Named subjects and locations—including river views, bridges, locks, abbeys, and churches—are relevant when selecting comparable works.
- Documented provenance can help establish a work's ownership history and support comparison with publicly recorded examples.
- Public sale dates, realized prices, and closely comparable lots should be evaluated when accessible.
Appraisal caveats
- The collected market source did not provide item-level sale dates, realized prices, condition reports, or auction-house catalogue narratives, so no price trend or value range is asserted.
- Several documented name variants make careful identity and attribution checks important.
- One artwork-file title contains a conflicting death year; authority-oriented identity sources support 1870, but exact dates were not established.
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
- Library of Congress library authority
- Tate museum or university
- RKD library authority
- Art UK museum or university
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 Frederick Waters Watts 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 Frederick Waters Watts artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.