Thomas Blinks Auction Prices and Value Guide

Thomas Blinks auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 255 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Thomas Blinks auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Thomas Blinks
Source records
255
Market update
2026-02-06

Thomas Blinks market snapshot

Thomas Blinks shows deep auction liquidity with 185 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $7,930. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 9 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-22.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (22.4% · 22 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (29.6% · 29 sales)
  • $10,000+ (48.0% · 47 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$3,000
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
9
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-22

Artist context

About Thomas Blinks

Thomas Blinks portrait
Thomas Blinks · Public domain · Source

Born

1860

Died

1912

Nationality

British

Thomas Blinks was a British painter associated with sporting and animal subjects. Art UK identifies him as Thomas Blinks (1860–1912) and documents works held by several British public collections. The recorded titles show a repertoire built around horses, dogs, huntsmen, deer, and field-sport scenes. Examples include Startled, After a Days' Sport, Sporting Scene, Two Setters in a Landscape, Pointers in a Landscape, and Stag at Bay on a Rocky Shore. These institutional records help explain why collectors encounter Blinks primarily through paintings of equestrian life, working dogs, hunting activity, and animals in landscape settings. Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, the Library of Congress, and the British Museum also maintain stable identity records for the artist. The available sources do not substantiate a specific movement or formal school. They do contain a lifespan conflict: Art UK and Wikidata use 1860–1912, while VIAF displays 1853–1910 from some contributing authorities.

PaintingSporting scenesHorses and equestrian subjectsDogs, including setters, pointers, and houndsHunting scenes and huntsmen

Common works and media

Works encountered under Thomas Blinks's name are principally paintings of sporting and animal subjects. Documented examples feature horses at rest or in equestrian settings, setters and pointers in landscapes, hounds and huntsmen, deer or stags, and broader field-sport scenes. Institutional titles also include After a Days' Sport, Sporting Scene, Startled, and Stag at Bay on a Rocky Shore. The collected evidence does not establish a documented print series, sculpture practice, or named period, so such classifications should not be assigned without work-specific evidence.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Thomas Blinks should begin with a careful identity and attribution check because public authority records disagree about his lifespan. Subject matter can help organize comparisons: institutional holdings document sporting scenes, horses, dogs, huntsmen, deer, and related landscape compositions. The most useful market comparison is a genuinely similar work rather than an artist-wide average, with attention to the lot description, stated medium, composition, sale date, realized price, and attribution used by the auction house. The collected source pack confirms that public auction records are associated with the artist but does not include detailed major-auction-house results. It therefore does not support conclusions about price direction, scarcity, or record values.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Sporting and animal paintings
  • Equestrian and hunting scenes

Value drivers

  1. Consistency of the attribution with institutional artist-identity records
  2. Subject and composition within Blinks's documented sporting, equestrian, canine, and hunting repertoire
  3. Comparison with relevant public auction records, including lot descriptions, sale dates, and realized prices when available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no major-auction-house biography or detailed sale-result source, so it does not support claims about price trends, record prices, or market direction.
  • Published authority data conflict on the artist's lifespan; attribution research should account for this discrepancy when matching catalogue records.
  • The supplied evidence documents paintings and their subjects but does not establish a named artistic movement or school.

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 Thomas Blinks

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Thomas Blinks 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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