Harrison Bird Brown Auction Prices and Value Guide

Harrison Bird Brown auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 176 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Harrison Bird Brown auction prices: quick answer

Harrison Bird Brown auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Harrison Bird Brown
Source records
176
Market update
2026-02-06

Harrison Bird Brown market snapshot

Harrison Bird Brown shows solid auction liquidity with 82 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-09-12.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (27.0% · 17 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (66.7% · 42 sales)
  • $10,000+ (6.3% · 4 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
6
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-09-12

Artist context

About Harrison Bird Brown

Born

1831

Died

1915

Nationality

American

Harrison Bird Brown (1831–1915) was an American painter born in Portland, Maine, who later died in London. Public references connect him principally with landscape and marine painting, with the White Mountains forming an especially important regional subject. His career belongs to nineteenth-century American art and is closely tied to Portland's cultural history. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with coastal or maritime scenes, New England mountain views, and other landscape paintings. Brown also participated in Portland's institutional art life: he helped establish the Portland Society of Art and was among its early presidents. Authority records maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress give the artist a reasonably distinct public identity. The available sources provide less detail about his training, exhibition chronology, and individual works, so those aspects should be investigated through museum or archival records before drawing firm conclusions.

PaintingMarine subjectsWhite Mountain landscapesNew England landscapes

Common works and media

The documented work type is painting, especially landscapes and marine subjects. White Mountain views, broader New England scenery, and coastal or maritime compositions are the clearest categories in the supplied sources. The source pack does not establish recurring bodies of prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, or editioned works, so objects in those media require separate evidence.

Market and appraisal context

For Brown, careful subject identification is relevant because the available biography distinguishes marine scenes and White Mountain landscapes as central areas of his work. An appraisal should also confirm that the object's signature, attribution, and stated artist identity align with established authority records. The present source pack does not provide accessible auction-house cataloguing, provenance, condition reports, dimensions, or realized-price details. It therefore supports broad classification but not a price forecast. Where public auction records are available, the most useful comparisons will be securely attributed paintings with closely related subjects and documented sale dates, while differences between the objects must remain explicit.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Landscape paintings
  • Marine paintings

Value drivers

  1. Subject classification, particularly whether a work depicts a marine scene or a White Mountain landscape
  2. Consistency of the attribution with established Harrison Bird Brown authority records
  3. Confirmation that the object is a painting, the work type documented by the available biographical source

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house lot descriptions, realized-price results, provenance histories, or condition reports.
  • The supplied Appraisily input reports 176 records, but the collected public page was rate-limited and did not expose lot-level evidence.
  • The proposed auction categories derive from the artist's documented specialties rather than a verified statistical analysis of the auction records.
  • No artist-specific price trend or value prediction can be supported from this source pack.

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 Harrison Bird Brown

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Harrison Bird Brown 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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