John Charles Maggs Auction Prices and Value Guide

John Charles Maggs auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 248 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

John Charles Maggs auction prices: quick answer

John Charles Maggs auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
John Charles Maggs
Source records
248
Market update
2026-02-06

John Charles Maggs market snapshot

John Charles Maggs shows solid auction liquidity with 118 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,625. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-29.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (27.7% · 23 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (71.1% · 59 sales)
  • $10,000+ (1.2% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$320
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
6
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-29

Artist context

About John Charles Maggs

Born

1819

Died

1896

Nationality

English

Also known as

John Maggs, J. C. Maggs

John Charles Maggs (1819–1896) was an English painter best known for scenes of Britain’s coaching age. Authority records and catalogued work titles connect him with mail coaches, stagecoaches, coaching inns, horse-changing stops, and historic views of Bath. Named locations such as the Bull and Mouth, the Bush Inn, the Old White Hart, and the Plough Inn appear in recorded titles, making transport and place central to his recognizable subject matter. Collectors may also encounter the shorter forms John Maggs and J. C. Maggs. One tertiary source gives the conflicting name James Charles Maggs, but the supplied authority records favor John Charles Maggs. The collected sources do not establish a specific artistic movement, so the most defensible context is nineteenth-century English coaching and topographical painting. His works are encountered chiefly as narrative paintings of horse-drawn travel, inns, streets, and urban landmarks associated with the earlier coaching era.

PaintingMail coaches and stagecoachesCoaching inns and horse-changing scenesHistoric streets, inns, and landmarks in Bath and other English locations

Common works and media

Commonly documented works are paintings of mail coaches and stagecoaches arriving at, departing from, or stopping beside coaching inns. Recorded titles also identify horse-changing scenes, named London and Cheltenham inns, Bath landmarks, streets, bridges, and churches. These location-specific transport scenes are better supported by the collected evidence than any broader movement label. The source pack does not establish whether prints, editions, drawings, or other media form a regular part of his auction market.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with precise identity matching because records appear under John Charles Maggs, John Maggs, and J. C. Maggs, while one source raises the unresolved form James Charles Maggs. For an individual painting, the depicted coach, route, inn, or town view can help identify genuinely comparable public auction lots. Medium, dimensions, date, signature and attribution, condition, provenance, sale date, and realized price should be assessed from the specific object and its catalogue record. The supplied pack confirms an Appraisily auction-record signal but provides no readable lot-level results or major-auction-house biography. It therefore cannot support a price forecast or market-trend claim, and comparable sales should be interpreted in the context of the individual work.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Coaching-scene paintings
  • Paintings of horse-drawn transport and coaching inns
  • Topographical paintings of Bath and named English locations

Value drivers

  1. Correct identity and attribution across the recorded names John Charles Maggs, John Maggs, and J. C. Maggs
  2. The depicted coach, route, inn, or named location when selecting comparable auction records
  3. Lot-level comparison by work type, sale date, realized price, and similarity of subject when public auction records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack contains no readable major-auction-house biography or lot-level result excerpts, so it does not support price forecasts or market-trend claims.
  • One source calls the painter James Charles Maggs, while authority records favor John Charles Maggs; attribution should be checked against the specific work and catalogue record.
  • The source pack does not establish a documented artistic movement, preferred painting support, signature pattern, or catalogue raisonné.

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 John Charles Maggs

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Artist value FAQ

How much is John Charles Maggs 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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