George Elgar Hicks Auction Prices and Value Guide

George Elgar Hicks auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 146 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

George Elgar Hicks auction prices: quick answer

George Elgar Hicks auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
George Elgar Hicks
Source records
146
Market update
2026-02-06

George Elgar Hicks market snapshot

George Elgar Hicks shows solid auction liquidity with 58 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $6,080. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-07.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (27.3% · 9 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (30.3% · 10 sales)
  • $10,000+ (42.4% · 14 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$480
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
4
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-07

Artist context

About George Elgar Hicks

George Elgar Hicks portrait
George Elgar Hicks · Public domain · Source

Born

1824

Died

1914

Nationality

English

George Elgar Hicks (1824–1914) was an English painter associated with the Victorian era. Wikidata and VIAF authority records align on his identity and lifespan, while Getty maintains a stable artist authority record useful for entity matching. Hicks is best known for large genre paintings and also worked as a society portraitist. This combination places him within the broad context of Victorian British art rather than a narrowly documented named movement in the collected sources. Collectors may therefore encounter his name in connection with substantial genre compositions as well as formal portraits. The available evidence is strongest on his identity, life years, occupation, and broad artistic practice. It is less detailed about his training, exhibition history, working chronology, and individual works. Those limitations make object-level evidence especially important when evaluating an unsigned work, a qualified attribution, or a painting connected to a similarly named artist.

Victorian-era British artPaintingGenre scenesSociety portraits

Common works and media

The collected sources identify paintings as Hicks's principal work type. They especially associate him with large Victorian genre paintings and society portraits. These categories provide useful starting points for classification, but the source pack does not establish a complete catalogue of his media, subjects, formats, or individual works.

Market and appraisal context

Hicks's documented practice suggests that genre paintings and society portraits should be assessed as distinct work types rather than treated as interchangeable examples. Authority records can help confirm that a proposed attribution refers to the English Victorian painter who lived from 1824 to 1914. The collected source pack does not provide accessible lot-level evidence sufficient to establish price trends or quantify the effects of condition, provenance, dimensions, date, or subject. Any appraisal should therefore examine the particular object's evidence and compare it with relevant public auction results when those records are available, rather than estimating value from the artist's name alone.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Victorian genre paintings
  • Portrait paintings

Value drivers

  1. Documented work type and subject context, particularly the distinction between a genre composition and a society portrait
  2. Consistency of the proposed attribution with established authority records for George Elgar Hicks and his 1824–1914 lifespan

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack does not include accessible lot-level auction-house evidence, so it cannot support price trends, record-price claims, or quantified effects for condition, provenance, size, date, or subject matter.
  • Auction categories are inferred cautiously from the documented types of painting associated with Hicks rather than from a categorized breakdown of individual lots.
  • An artist-name match alone is not sufficient to establish attribution or value; the specific object's evidence and relevant comparable sales must be reviewed.

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 George Elgar Hicks

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Artist value FAQ

How much is George Elgar Hicks 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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