George Hayter Auction Prices and Value Guide

George Hayter auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 260 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

George Hayter auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
George Hayter
Source records
260
Market update
2026-02-06

George Hayter market snapshot

George Hayter shows developing auction liquidity with 18 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $280. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-29.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (66.7% · 10 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (26.7% · 4 sales)
  • $10,000+ (6.7% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$280
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
1
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-10-29

Artist context

About George Hayter

George Hayter portrait
George Hayter · Public domain · Source

Born

1792

Died

1871

Nationality

British

Also known as

Sir George Hayter

Sir George Hayter (1792–1871) was a British artist and English painter best known for portraiture and ambitious compositions containing many individual likenesses. His career became closely connected with Queen Victoria, who appointed him Principal Painter in Ordinary; he was knighted in 1841. These associations place Hayter within the public and courtly culture of nineteenth-century Britain, although the collected evidence does not establish a specific movement label. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with painted portraits and larger multi-figure works. His identity is unusually well anchored across public authority and museum records, including Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, Tate, the British Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. That authority coverage helps distinguish the historical painter from similarly named people, but an individual work still requires object-level examination before its authorship, date, or relationship to Hayter’s documented practice can be assessed.

PaintingPortrait paintingIndividual portraitsLarge multi-figure portrait compositions

Common works and media

The collected evidence most clearly supports portrait paintings and large compositions incorporating numerous individual portraits. It does not provide enough detail to characterize Hayter’s drawings, prints, editions, or other possible work types as common auction categories. Objects outside the documented painting categories should therefore be researched individually rather than assigned to Hayter’s usual production by assumption.

Market and appraisal context

A George Hayter appraisal should begin by establishing the object’s medium, dimensions, subject, date, inscriptions, condition, provenance, and strength of attribution. The collected biographical evidence distinguishes individual portraiture from Hayter’s more elaborate multi-figure compositions, making work type and compositional scale useful starting points when choosing comparable lots. Public auction records can then be compared by sale date, cataloguing language, physical characteristics, and realized price. The present source pack does not contain substantive major-auction-house commentary, so it cannot support a price forecast or a claim about market direction. Auction-directory records should also be reviewed individually because an artist-name match alone does not prove authorship or ensure that two objects are genuinely comparable.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Portrait paintings
  • Large multi-figure paintings

Value drivers

  1. Work type, subject, and compositional scale, including the distinction between individual portraits and large multi-figure compositions
  2. Comparison with publicly recorded auction lots categorized under the same artist identity

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no substantive major-auction-house excerpt, so it does not support price-trend claims or predictions.
  • Medium, dimensions, date, condition, provenance, and strength of attribution should be established for the individual object before selecting comparable sales.
  • The source pack does not establish that every auction-directory record attributed to George Hayter is autograph or correctly identified.

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 George Hayter

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Artist value FAQ

How much is George Hayter 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 George Hayter artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.