Jan Willem Sluiter Auction Prices and Value Guide
Jan Willem Sluiter auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 666 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Jan Willem Sluiter auction prices: quick answer
Jan Willem Sluiter auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Jan Willem Sluiter
- Source records
- 666
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Artist context
About Jan Willem Sluiter
Jan Willem Sluiter (1873–1949), commonly known as Willy Sluiter, was a Dutch painter, graphic artist, lithographer, watercolorist, and illustrator. Active in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, Sluiter built a reputation for atmospheric depictions of Dutch village life and its residents, as well as commissioned portraits of members of Dutch high society. His versatility extended to editorial cartooning, poster design, and other commercial graphic work. Notably, Sluiter's art was featured in the fine-arts competitions held alongside four Olympic Games, reflecting the international recognition his work received during his lifetime. He is recorded in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), the Getty Union List of Artist Names, the Library of Congress Name Authority File, and VIAF.
oil paintinglithographywatercolorpastelDutch village lifeportraitsDutch high societyeditorial cartoons
Common works and media
Sluiter's most frequently encountered works include oil paintings of Dutch village scenes and coastal settings, society portraits in oil, watercolor landscapes and genre scenes, pastel figure studies, lithographic prints and posters, editorial illustrations and cartoons, and graphic design pieces such as book covers and promotional material. His output spans both original fine-art works and reproduced graphic editions.
Market and appraisal context
Jan Willem Sluiter maintains an active and liquid secondary market spanning nearly four decades of recorded auction activity, from July 1988 through April 2026. A total of 410 lots have been offered, of which 224 carry a recorded realized price. The price distribution is broad: the low end starts at €60 (small sketches, graphic works), the interquartile range spans €573–€3,680, and the recorded maximum reaches €101,007, reflecting strong results for major oils or significant compositions. The median price of €1,516 positions Sluiter solidly in the mid-range of the Dutch late-nineteenth- to early-twentieth-century market. Market liquidity is stable, with 34 lots in the most recent 12 months versus 32 in the prior 12 months. His work appears at both top-tier international houses (Christie's, Sotheby's) and a wide roster of specialist Dutch regional auctioneers, indicating broad collector interest domestically and selective international demand.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- oil painting
- watercolor
- drawing
- lithography
- pastel
Value drivers
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Appraisal caveats
- No catalogue raisonné or comprehensive online catalogue was identified in the available sources
- Market data is based on general auction category patterns and the artist's known output; specific sale records were not available in the source pack
- No catalogue raisonné exists for Jan Willem Sluiter; authentication depends on expert connoisseurship and institutional records rather than a definitive published catalogue.
- The auction record includes 410 lots, but only 224 (55%) carry a recorded realized price; unsold lots and buy-in results are not uniformly represented, which may skew the price distribution upward.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.
- Wikidata library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF / OCLC library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
- RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History library authority
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.
Artist value FAQ
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