Leslie Hunter Auction Prices and Value Guide
Leslie Hunter auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 561 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Leslie Hunter auction prices: quick answer
Leslie Hunter auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Leslie Hunter
- Source records
- 561
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Leslie Hunter market snapshot
Leslie Hunter shows developing auction liquidity with 37 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $13,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-07.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (13.0% · 3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (30.4% · 7 sales)
- $10,000+ (56.5% · 13 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $1,200
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 1
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-12-07
Artist context
About Leslie Hunter
Born
1877
Died
1931
Nationality
Scottish
Also known as
George Leslie Hunter, George Hunter
George Leslie Hunter (1877–1931), professionally known as Leslie Hunter, was a Scottish painter associated with the Scottish Colourists and, in European-language references, Post-Impressionism. He spent a substantial early period in the United States, mainly California, before returning to Scotland in 1906. Largely self-taught, he worked in Scotland—particularly Fife and around Loch Lomond—and travelled through Europe, spending time in southern France and visiting the Netherlands, Pas-de-Calais and Italy. Public authority records and museum profiles identify him as a painter, while biographical material also records drawing. Collectors may encounter works connected with Scottish landscape and coastal settings, alongside still-life subjects such as flowers and fruit. Hunter’s place within the Scottish Colourists supplies the central art-historical context for his work, but each object still requires evidence-based attribution. Authority files identify him under George Leslie Hunter as well as the shorter professional name Leslie Hunter.
Scottish ColouristsPost-ImpressionismPaintingDrawingScottish places and landscapes, including Fife and Loch LomondCoastal subject matter, represented by The Beach, Largo, at Low TideStill life with flowers and fruit, represented by Anemones and Fruit
Common works and media
Works encountered in appraisal and auction contexts may include paintings and drawings. The source pack documents Scottish settings such as Fife and Loch Lomond, the coastal work The Beach, Largo, at Low Tide, and the flower-and-fruit still life Anemones and Fruit. These examples indicate a range of landscape, coastal and still-life subjects but do not constitute a complete catalogue of Hunter’s output.
Market and appraisal context
The collected sources establish paintings and drawings as relevant work types, but they do not include a major-auction-house essay or individual lot-level evidence. This profile therefore does not support a price trend, scarcity claim or forecast. For appraisal, records should first be separated by medium and compared with works having sufficiently similar subjects and catalog descriptions. Conclusions about attribution, condition, provenance, dimensions or precise date require evidence for the individual object. When public auction records are available, realized prices should be interpreted with their sale dates, auction houses and lot descriptions rather than treated as current price quotations.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
- Drawings
Value drivers
- Work type and medium when matching comparable records, particularly painting versus drawing
- Subject and geographic setting when selecting like-for-like comparable works
- Sale date, realized price and auction-house context for comparable public auction records
Appraisal caveats
- The source pack contains no fetched major-auction-house biography, catalogue note or individual lot record, so it does not support claims about price direction, scarcity or artist-specific market premiums.
- Condition, provenance, dimensions, precise date and attribution require object-level and lot-level evidence beyond this identity profile.
- Authority records disagree on the birth year: the strongest collected records use 1877, while one heading aggregated by VIAF uses 1879.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
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
How much is Leslie Hunter 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.
Can Appraisily value my Leslie Hunter artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.