Samuel Howitt Auction Prices and Value Guide
Samuel Howitt auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 396 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
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Samuel Howitt auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Samuel Howitt
- Source records
- 396
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Artist context
About Samuel Howitt
Samuel Howitt (1756–1822) was an English painter, illustrator, etcher, and watercolorist best known for his vivid depictions of animals, hunting, horse racing, and sporting subjects. Active from the 1770s through the early 1820s, Howitt worked across oils, watercolors, and printmaking, producing both finished gallery pictures and illustrations for published sporting books. His most recognized contributions include plates for the illustrated volume Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, which depicted hunting and outdoor pursuits from around the world, including Indian field sports—scenes he rendered without ever having traveled to India himself. Howitt's work belongs to the broader tradition of British sporting art, a genre that flourished in the late Georgian era and remains actively collected today. His images combine careful animal observation with the narrative energy of the chase, making him a distinctive figure among late-eighteenth-century British sporting artists.
British sporting artwatercoloroil paintingetchingengravinganimalshunting sceneshorse racinglandscape
Common works and media
Howitt's output includes hand-colored etchings and engravings of hunting, horse racing, animal, and field-sport subjects; watercolor studies of animals and sporting scenes; oil paintings of similar themes; and book illustrations, most notably plates for Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes. Individual prints and plates from published works are the most commonly available category in auction contexts, followed by watercolor drawings. Original oil paintings are comparatively scarce.
Market and appraisal context
Samuel Howitt's works appear regularly at auction, encompassing original watercolors, oil paintings, hand-colored etchings, and engraved book plates. The most frequently encountered category is printed sporting illustration, particularly plates from Foreign Field Sports and similar published series, where condition, hand-coloring quality, and completeness of the set or folio can affect value. Original watercolors and oils are less common and may command stronger interest from sporting-art specialists. Attribution can be complicated by the variant name forms recorded in authority files, including William Samuel Howitt. Collectors evaluating Howitt works should consider medium, subject (hunting and racing scenes versus landscape), provenance, plate or sheet condition, and whether the work is an original or a published reproduction.
Evidence
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Data basis
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