Lemuel D. Eldred Auction Prices and Value Guide

Lemuel D. Eldred auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 305 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Lemuel D. Eldred auction prices: quick answer

Lemuel D. Eldred auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Lemuel D. Eldred
Source records
305
Market update
2026-02-06

Lemuel D. Eldred market snapshot

Lemuel D. Eldred shows deep auction liquidity with 212 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $950. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 47 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-29.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (52.6% · 90 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (43.9% · 75 sales)
  • $10,000+ (3.5% · 6 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
47
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-29

Artist context

About Lemuel D. Eldred

Died

1921

Nationality

American

Lemuel D. Eldred is identified in the collected authority data as an American painter who died in 1921, although his birth year remains unresolved between 1848 and 1850. Available object records indicate a practice centered on maritime and coastal imagery. Examples include New Bedford dockyards with whaleships and small boats, a rocky shoreline with distant sailboats, an Assonet subject, and an etching titled Gibraltar, 1888. These records document both oil painting and etching, with signatures, titles, dates, and other inscriptions noted on several works. Collectors are therefore likely to encounter Eldred through marine paintings and graphic works connected with Massachusetts harbors, working waterfronts, vessels, and coastal scenery. No movement or school is assigned here because the collected museum and library pages did not return usable text during collection, and the available evidence does not justify a more specific classification.

EtchingOil on canvasHarbors, working waterfronts, ships, and small boatsRocky coastal landscapes with sailboatsNamed places and coastal communities, including Assonet, Gibraltar, Fairhaven, and New Bedford

Common works and media

Available records point to marine and coastal oils as well as signed etchings. Recorded subjects include harbor activity, dockyards, whaleships, fishing figures, rowboats, sailboats, rocky shorelines, and named locations such as New Bedford, Fairhaven, Assonet, and Gibraltar. Some etchings carry both signatures and additional pencil annotations. This is a source-limited profile rather than a complete catalogue, so other subjects or media should be evaluated individually.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work associated with Lemuel D. Eldred should begin with its medium, support, dimensions, subject, signature, inscriptions, and documented history. The source pack distinguishes oils on canvas from etchings and records details such as plate and pencil signatures, dated titles, printer information, exhibition references, provenance, lining, and inpainting. For prints, the exact impression, annotations, margins, condition, and any reliable edition information should be examined. For paintings, subject, identified location, date, surface condition, restoration, and provenance may help determine which public auction records are genuinely comparable. These factors are evidence inputs rather than price guarantees. The collected sources do not provide enough accessible major-auction data to support a price trend or prediction.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Marine and coastal oil paintings
  • Signed maritime and place-related etchings

Value drivers

  1. Documented medium and support, including whether a work is an oil on canvas or an etching
  2. Signature and inscription evidence, including distinctions between a plate signature, a pencil signature, a title, and a dated inscription
  3. Subject, identified location, title, and date, especially for harbor, vessel, and coastal scenes
  4. Condition and restoration history, including lining and recorded inpainting
  5. Documented provenance, exhibition history, printer information, and work-specific annotations

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not support conclusions about price trends, record prices, market direction, or scarcity.
  • The available object records describe only a small selection of works and should not be treated as a complete catalogue of the artist's output.
  • Attribution, authenticity, and value require examination of the individual object and cannot be established from an artist-name match alone.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

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Artist value FAQ

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