Hildegarde Hamilton Auction Prices and Value Guide

Hildegarde Hamilton auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 249 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Hildegarde Hamilton auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist: Hildegarde Hamilton
Source records: 249
Market update: 2026-02-06

Hildegarde Hamilton market snapshot

Hildegarde Hamilton shows very deep auction liquidity with 538 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $125. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 225 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-02-01.

Realized price distribution

Under $1,000 (100.0% · 408 sales)
$1,000 to $10,000 (0.0% · 0 sales)
$10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)

Median sale (last 12 months): $140
Sales recorded (last 12 months): 225
Median shift vs prior year: +55.6%
Latest recorded sale: 2026-02-01

Artist context

About Hildegarde Hamilton

Born

1898

Died

1970

Nationality

American

Also known as

Hildegarde Hume Hamilton, Hildegard Hume Hamilton

Hildegarde Hamilton was an American painter whose public authority records also associate her with writing and illustration. Bibliographic records use variants including Hildegarde Hume Hamilton and Hildegard Hume Hamilton, an important distinction when matching artworks, books, and catalog entries to the same person. The available authorities agree that she died in 1970 but disagree about her birth year: IdRef records 1898, while Wikidata records 1896. This page therefore treats 1898 as provisional. Collectors may encounter her name in connection with paintings as well as illustrated or authored publications. The collected evidence does not establish a particular artistic movement, school, signature subject, or documented series, so those classifications should not be inferred from the name alone. Further museum, archival, or exhibition documentation would be needed to provide a fuller account of her training, career, and artistic development.

PaintingIllustration

Common works and media

The source pack supports paintings and illustration-related material as the principal documented work types associated with Hildegarde Hamilton. IdRef also identifies authored publications under her fuller name and records an illustration credit for a 1931 publication. The available evidence does not identify particular painting materials, recurring subjects, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or named series. Objects outside the documented painting, illustration, and publication contexts require additional attribution evidence.

Market and appraisal context

Market assessment for Hildegarde Hamilton requires careful identity matching because the authority records contain alternate name forms and conflicting birth years. The available evidence supports activity as a painter, illustrator, and author, making it important to distinguish a fine-art object from an illustration or publication-related item before choosing comparable sales. The collected Appraisily auction page could not be read because of a rate-limit response, so this research does not establish medium-specific demand, price patterns, scarcity, or preferred subjects. Any valuation should use verified object details and genuinely comparable public auction records rather than applying results associated only with a similar name. No price prediction is supported by this source pack.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

Paintings
Illustrated or book-related works

Value drivers

Confirm the artist identity and attribution against documented authority-record name forms
Distinguish paintings from illustrations and authored publication material before selecting comparable lots

Appraisal caveats

The collected sources do not support conclusions about price trends, scarcity, preferred subjects, specific painting techniques, or the relative value of different work types.
Detailed auction-lot evidence was unavailable because the collected Appraisily page response was rate-limited.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

Wikidata library authority
IdRef library authority
Library of Congress library authority
Appraisily appraisily artist page

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 Hildegarde Hamilton

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Artist value FAQ

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