John William Beatty Auction Prices and Value Guide

John William Beatty auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 180 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

John William Beatty auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
John William Beatty
Source records
180
Market update
2026-02-06

John William Beatty market snapshot

John William Beatty shows solid auction liquidity with 91 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-09.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (20.7% · 12 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (65.5% · 38 sales)
  • $10,000+ (13.8% · 8 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$750
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
1
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-10-09

Artist context

About John William Beatty

John William Beatty portrait
All images from the M.O. Hammond fonds were uploaded as part of the Archives of Ontario’s GLAM Wiki project. · Public domain · Source

Born

1869

Died

1941

Nationality

Canadian

Also known as

J. W. Beatty

John William Beatty (1869–1941), commonly listed as J. W. Beatty, was a Canadian painter associated with the development of modern Canadian landscape painting. Public authority data identifies him as a Canadian artist, while collected biographical sources describe him as an older precursor to the artists who formed the Group of Seven in 1920, rather than as a member of the group itself. Landscape—especially the Canadian landscape—is the clearest subject context supported by the available material. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings connected with early twentieth-century Canadian landscape traditions and the broader history surrounding the Group of Seven. This context also helps with entity matching because the artist appears under both his full name and initials, while authority records connect the identity to Wikidata and Getty ULAN. The source pack is stronger on identity than on individual works, exhibitions, or chronology, so specific titles, dates, techniques, and ownership histories require object-level verification.

Pre-Group of Seven Canadian landscape paintingPaintingCanadian landscapes

Common works and media

The source pack most clearly supports paintings depicting Canadian landscapes. It does not provide enough reliable detail to characterize particular techniques, named series, editions, print production, drawings, or other recurring work types. Any proposed medium, title, date, or catalogue association should be verified from the object and supporting documentation.

Market and appraisal context

For appraisal, begin with object-level evidence: work type, materials, dimensions, inscriptions, signature, date, condition, provenance, and any exhibition or publication history. The collected sources support Beatty primarily as a painter of Canadian landscapes, but they do not establish a price trend or a hierarchy of subjects, periods, or techniques. Comparable public auction records should be matched as closely as possible by medium, scale, subject, date, condition, and attribution, with sale date and realized price reviewed in context. The supplied Appraisily input reports 180 entries, but the public page could not be fetched during collection, and no major-auction-house lot record was included. A valuation should therefore rest on verified object details and directly comparable sales, not the record count alone.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Canadian landscape works

Value drivers

  1. Work type and medium, with the collected biography identifying Beatty as a painter
  2. Canadian landscape subject matter
  3. Comparable public auction records and realized prices when available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected sources do not support a price trend, a ranking of subjects or periods, or predictions about future value.
  • No major-auction-house biography or individual lot record was present in the source pack.
  • The supplied Appraisily input reports 180 records, but the public artist page was rate-limited during collection; the count should not be treated as evidence of value or liquidity.

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 John William Beatty

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Artist value FAQ

How much is John William Beatty 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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