William Henry Hilliard Auction Prices and Value Guide

William Henry Hilliard auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 173 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

William Henry Hilliard auction prices: quick answer

William Henry Hilliard auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
William Henry Hilliard
Source records
173
Market update
2026-02-06

William Henry Hilliard market snapshot

William Henry Hilliard shows solid auction liquidity with 57 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $900. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-01.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (54.8% · 23 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (45.2% · 19 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$250
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
2
Median shift vs prior year
+42.9%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-01

Artist context

About William Henry Hilliard

Born

1836

Died

1905

Nationality

American

Also known as

William Henri Hilliard

William Henry Hilliard (1836–1905) was an American painter whose identity and life years are recorded by Wikidata and VIAF and linked to Getty’s Union List of Artist Names. The public works represented in the supplied source material are nineteenth-century oil-on-canvas landscapes. Their subjects include rivers, lakes, wooded paths, meadows, cattle, mountain backgrounds, and a view identified as Franconia Notch, New Hampshire. Several documented examples carry signatures, and one lake scene is dated 1868. Collectors may therefore encounter Hilliard through signed American landscape paintings depicting pastoral or mountainous scenery, sometimes with a specific New England location. The available evidence establishes his identity and characteristic examples more securely than it establishes a detailed biography or formal affiliation with a named movement. Any school attribution should consequently be checked against stronger scholarly documentation rather than inferred from landscape subject matter alone.

Oil on canvasLandscapeRiver and lake landscapesMountain landscapes and named New Hampshire sceneryPastoral scenery with trees, meadows, roads, and cattle

Common works and media

Works represented in the source pack are oil paintings on canvas, principally landscape compositions. Recorded subjects include river and lake views, wooded country paths, meadows with cattle, distant mountains, and Franconia Notch in New Hampshire. Signatures appear in several catalogued examples, and one work is described as dated 1868. The supplied material does not establish a body of prints, sculptures, ceramics, or editioned works.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to William Henry Hilliard should begin by confirming its medium, signature or inscription, date, dimensions, subject, and physical condition. Collected examples include signed oil-on-canvas landscapes, a scene dated 1868, a view titled Franconia Notch, and a painting described as relined with light crazing. Those details help determine which public records are genuinely comparable. Depicted location and composition also matter when distinguishing a named mountain view from a more general river or lake landscape. Because the supplied evidence contains no readable realized-price results from a major auction house, it does not support a price forecast; valuation should rely on verified comparable sales and object-specific evidence.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Nineteenth-century American landscape paintings
  • Oil-on-canvas river, lake, and mountain landscapes

Value drivers

  1. Signature, inscription, and date markings
  2. Condition and restoration history, including relining and surface crazing
  3. Subject, depicted location, and compositional detail
  4. Canvas dimensions and whether measurements distinguish the image from the frame

Appraisal caveats

  • The supplied source pack contains no readable major-auction-house results or realized-price history, so it does not support price trends or predictions.
  • The artwork descriptions collected through Wikimedia Commons appear to reproduce auction-catalog information; they support object-level characteristics but are weaker than museum cataloguing or a catalogue raisonné.
  • A named movement or school has been omitted because the readable authority sources do not establish one.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

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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.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for William Henry Hilliard

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Artist value FAQ

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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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