Irving Ramsey Wiles Auction Prices and Value Guide

Irving Ramsey Wiles auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 314 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Irving Ramsey Wiles auction prices: quick answer

Irving Ramsey Wiles auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Irving Ramsey Wiles
Source records
314
Market update
2026-02-16

Irving Ramsey Wiles market snapshot

Irving Ramsey Wiles shows solid auction liquidity with 144 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $7,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-27.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (18.2% · 18 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (40.4% · 40 sales)
  • $10,000+ (41.4% · 41 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$7,500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
6
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-27

Artist context

About Irving Ramsey Wiles

Irving Ramsey Wiles portrait
Unidentified photographer · Public domain · Source

Born

1861

Died

1948

Nationality

American

Also known as

Irving R. Wiles

Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861–1948) was an American painter and illustrator born in Utica, New York. Public biographical references identify him especially as a portraitist, including a practitioner associated with upper-class society portraiture and the Grand Manner tradition. His historical identity is reinforced by records from Wikidata and the National Gallery of Art, as well as stable identifiers maintained by Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with painted portraits or illustration-related material. These categories should not be treated as a complete catalogue of his output, because the collected sources provide only a concise overview of his practice. The combination of his full name, life dates, institutional artist record, and authority identifiers helps distinguish Wiles from similarly named artists when matching auction lots, collection records, and images.

Grand Manner portrait traditionPaintingIllustrationPortraitsUpper-class society portraits

Common works and media

The available biographical sources identify Wiles as a painter, illustrator, and portrait specialist. In auction and appraisal contexts, this supports two broad categories: portrait paintings, particularly works connected with society portraiture, and illustration-related works. The source pack does not establish a complete list of supports, techniques, formats, or named series, so more specific classifications should be verified from the individual object and its documentation.

Market and appraisal context

Irving Ramsey Wiles has a documented presence in Appraisily’s auction-record index, but the collected research pack does not include enough individual lot evidence to support a price trend or prediction. Appraisal research should begin by separating portrait paintings from illustration-related material and then selecting public auction comparisons that match the work type and subject as closely as possible. Wiles’s association with society portraiture may make subject alignment especially relevant when reviewing candidate comparisons. Object-level conclusions still require examination of the work itself and fuller records for attribution, condition, provenance, dimensions, sale date, and realized price. Those details are not established by this identity profile alone.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Portrait paintings
  • Illustration-related works

Value drivers

  1. Comparison with auction records for the same work type, distinguishing portrait paintings from illustration-related material
  2. Subject alignment, particularly whether a work belongs to the society-portrait context for which Wiles is known
  3. Comparable public sale dates and realized prices when matching auction records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not provide individual lot descriptions, provenance, condition reports, dimensions, or realized-price details, so it does not support a price trend or value prediction.
  • The source pack supports portraiture and illustration as broad work categories but is too thin to establish a complete catalogue of media or subjects.
  • Attribution, condition, provenance, and direct comparison with sufficiently similar documented sales require object-level evidence beyond this artist profile.

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 Irving Ramsey Wiles

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Irving Ramsey Wiles 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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