Robert Kemm Auction Prices and Value Guide

Robert Kemm auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 211 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Robert Kemm auction prices: quick answer

Robert Kemm auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Robert Kemm
Source records
211
Market update
2026-02-06

Robert Kemm market snapshot

Robert Kemm shows solid auction liquidity with 122 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,560. 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 (39.1% · 18 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (52.2% · 24 sales)
  • $10,000+ (8.7% · 4 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$325
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
6
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-29

Artist context

About Robert Kemm

Born

1837

Died

1895

Nationality

British

Robert Kemm (1837–1895) was a British painter associated in the available source material with Romantic painting and scenes of nineteenth-century Spain. A Spanish-language biographical account reports that he traveled to Spain around 1861 and worked particularly from Andalusian subjects. His pictures feature popular-life motifs including bullfighters, bandits, beggars, guitarists, street vendors, courtship, religious outings, and tavern interiors. Seville appears repeatedly in this context; one cited composition places a fruit seller before the Giralda. Collectors are therefore likely to encounter Kemm through narrative paintings of Spanish daily life rather than through a single formally documented series. Two works identified in that account, El bautizo and Galanteo en la fuente, are reported in the Museo del Romanticismo. The current source pack supports this broad identity and subject focus, but it does not provide a fully accessible museum biography or catalogue raisonné.

RomanticismNineteenth-century Spanish genre painting by a British artistPaintingPaintings on canvasSpanish popular-life and genre scenesAndalusian and Seville settingsBullfighters, bandits, beggars, guitarists, and street vendorsTavern interiors, courtship, and religious outings

Common works and media

Commonly encountered works are paintings centered on Spanish popular life: tavern interiors, vendors, courtship scenes, religious gatherings, and figures such as bullfighters, bandits, beggars, and guitarists. Andalusian and especially Seville-related settings recur in the available account. The source pack does not establish a reliable catalogue of prints, drawings, editions, sculpture, or ceramics, so those categories should not be assumed.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Robert Kemm should first establish that the object fits the documented category of painting and the Spanish or Andalusian genre subjects associated with him. A tavern scene, street vendor, bullfighter, guitarist, or Seville setting may be contextually relevant, but subject alone does not establish authorship. Comparable auction research should match the closest available work type and subject, then review auction-house attribution, sale date, and realized price. The Appraisily input indicates a substantial auction-record set for this name, but the collected page excerpt was rate-limited and no individual lot evidence was available here. Accordingly, this profile does not support a price forecast or a claim about market direction.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Spanish and Andalusian genre-scene paintings

Value drivers

  1. Alignment with documented Spanish or Andalusian subject matter
  2. Specific setting or motif, including Seville, tavern scenes, vendors, bullfighters, or guitarists
  3. Comparison with public auction records matched by work type, subject, sale date, realized price, and auction-house attribution

Appraisal caveats

  • No individual major-auction-house lot record was included in the collected source pack.
  • The supplied auction-record count signals market activity under this name but does not by itself establish authorship, authenticity, value, or price direction.
  • Subject similarity should not be treated as proof that a work is by Robert Kemm.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

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Recent sale records

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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.

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Robert Kemm worth?

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