Willem Maris Auction Prices and Value Guide

Willem Maris auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 249 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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

Artist
Willem Maris
Source records
249
Market update
2026-02-06

Willem Maris market snapshot

Willem Maris shows very deep auction liquidity with 880 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,120. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 13 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-02-04.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (18.2% · 101 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (62.6% · 348 sales)
  • $10,000+ (19.2% · 107 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,254
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
13
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-02-04

Artist context

About Willem Maris

Willem Maris (1844–1910) was a Dutch landscape painter and a leading figure of the Hague School, the influential movement that shaped late nineteenth-century Dutch art with its tonal, atmospheric realism. The youngest of three celebrated painter brothers—alongside Jacob and Matthijs Maris—Willem developed a distinctive focus on pastoral subjects, especially cattle grazing in sunlit water meadows. His work is characterized by a luminous handling of light and a loose, fluid brushwork that captured the mood of the Dutch countryside with immediacy and warmth. Unlike his brothers, who gravitated toward urban scenes or more Idealized compositions, Willem remained devoted to rural landscape throughout his career. His paintings are held in major Dutch public collections and appear regularly at international auction, making his work familiar to collectors of nineteenth-century European art.

Hague Schooloil on canvaswatercolordrawingscattle and cows in pasturepastoral landscapeswater meadows and ditchesDutch countryside

Common works and media

Willem Maris is best known for oil-on-canvas pastoral landscapes featuring cattle at rest or grazing along ditches and water meadows, often rendered with warm, diffused light. Smaller-scale works, watercolors, and drawings of similar rural subjects also appear in the market. Prints and reproductive engravings after his compositions circulated during his lifetime, reflecting his popularity. Collectors may encounter works titled or catalogued under cattle scenes, Dutch meadow views, and Hague School landscapes.

Market and appraisal context

Willem Maris’s paintings appear with regularity at auction houses specializing in nineteenth-century European art. His cattle and pastoral landscapes are the works most commonly encountered by collectors and appraisers. Value is influenced by the quality of light handling, size of the composition, condition, and documented provenance. Attribution can be a factor: the Maris brothers occasionally collaborated, and distinguishing Willem’s hand requires expertise. Hague School painting has a stable collector base, particularly in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. Appraisals should consider comparable realized prices, exhibition history, and the presence of authentication or expert committee opinions when available.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Value drivers

  1. Subject matter: cattle scenes and pastoral landscapes are his most recognized and sought-after works
  2. Provenance: works with documented exhibition history or Maris family provenance may carry premium
  3. Attribution: the Maris brothers sometimes collaborated; distinguishing Willem's hand from Jacob's or Matthijs's can affect value
  4. Condition and medium: oil on canvas works in good condition are standard; smaller watercolors and drawings appear less frequently
  5. Hague School market context: demand is influenced by collector interest in Dutch 19th-century realism and tonal landscape painting

Appraisal caveats

  • Market data in this profile is based on artist identity research and available auction context, not a comprehensive price analysis.
  • The source pack for this artist contains authority records and biographical references but no direct auction-house lot records; appraisal should incorporate current comparable sales data.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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Data basis

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Artist value FAQ

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