Robert Weir Allan Auction Prices and Value Guide

Robert Weir Allan auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 243 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Robert Weir Allan auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Robert Weir Allan
Source records
243
Market update
2026-02-06

Robert Weir Allan market snapshot

Robert Weir Allan shows solid auction liquidity with 75 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $750. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2024-04-19.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (57.9% · 33 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (40.4% · 23 sales)
  • $10,000+ (1.8% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$0
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
0
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2024-04-19

Artist context

About Robert Weir Allan

Robert Weir Allan portrait
uncredited photographer · Public domain · Source

Born

1851

Died

1942

Nationality

Scottish, British

Robert Weir Allan, usually dated 1851–1942, was a Scottish-born British painter best known for landscape and marine subjects. Some authority records give 1852 as his birth year, so the exact year remains worth checking against a primary record. Sources describe an artist comfortable in both watercolour and oil, with a loose approach associated with painting outdoors. His subjects ranged from harbours, rivers, and coastal activity to broader landscapes, with the north-east coast of Scotland providing a recurring point of reference. Allan also travelled widely, expanding his subject matter beyond Britain, and exhibited in London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. Collectors are consequently likely to encounter varied waterside and landscape compositions rather than a single fixed series. His long exhibition career and facility across media help explain why his name appears in museum authority files, public art databases, and auction records, particularly in connection with British watercolours and late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century landscape painting.

WatercolourOil paintingDrawing and graphic workLandscapesMarine and coastal scenesHarbours, rivers, and waterside activityNorth-east Scottish scenery

Common works and media

Collectors may encounter watercolour and oil landscapes, marine paintings, harbour views, coastal scenes, river subjects, and other waterside compositions. Scottish coastal scenery is especially associated with Allan in the available biography, while authority-linked work titles also indicate harbours, locks, burns, doorways, and figure groups. Drawings and graphic works may also appear, although the collected evidence for those categories is less detailed than for paintings and watercolours.

Market and appraisal context

Works attributed to Robert Weir Allan should first be separated by medium and work type: an oil painting, finished watercolour, drawing, or graphic work should not be assessed against an undifferentiated group of records. Subject also matters when selecting comparisons, especially for marine, harbour, coastal, river, and Scottish landscape scenes. A defensible appraisal should then examine the individual object's attribution, signature, dimensions, condition, date, and provenance before comparing it with closely related public sales. The collected source pack confirms that auction records are associated with Allan, but it does not expose enough lot-level evidence to support a price range or market trend. Any valuation should therefore use verified comparable lots with documented sale dates and realized prices.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Landscape and marine watercolours
  • Landscape and marine oil paintings
  • Drawings and graphic works

Value drivers

  1. Medium and technique, particularly whether a work is an oil, watercolour, drawing, or graphic work
  2. Subject and setting, including marine, harbour, coastal, river, and landscape imagery

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected Appraisily page indicates an auction-record presence, but its content was rate-limited and the source pack contains no lot-level descriptions, realized prices, sale dates, condition reports, or provenance details.
  • The auction categories are inferred from the artist's documented media and subjects rather than from a reviewed sample of individual auction lots.
  • No price range, market trend, or scarcity conclusion can be supported from this source pack.
  • The reported birth year conflicts across authority records: 1851 is used here because it appears in VIAF, Art UK, and the English-language biographical source, while Wikidata and some VIAF-linked authorities give 1852.

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 Robert Weir Allan

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Robert Weir Allan 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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