William Sullivant Vanderbilt Allen Paintings & Artwork for Sale | William Sullivant Vanderbilt Allen Art Value Price Guide

Sep. 15, 2023
Two National Horse Show Lithographs
Est: $150 - $250
By William Sullivant Vanderbilt Allen (American, 1860-1931), comprising "The High Jump" and "Judging Hackney Stallions", published by the Heliotype Printing Company, 1893, for Sporting Incidents/National Horse Show Association, 1892 Each overall: 18-3/8"h x 23-1/4"w Each sight: 17-1/4"h x 20-1/4"w
Nye & Company
Jun. 15, 2023
Two National Horse Show Lithographs
Est: $300 - $500
By William Sullivant Vanderbilt Allen (American, 1860-1931), comprising "The High Jump" and "Judging Hackney Stallions", published by the Heliotype Printing Company, 1893, for Sporting Incidents/National Horse Show Association, 1892 Each overall: 18-3/8"h x 23-1/4"w Each sight: 17-1/4"h x 20-1/4"w
Nye & Company
Jul. 20, 2019
Allen - Steeplechase at Hempstead Farms
Est: $300 - $600
This fine plate is from W. S. Vanderbilt Allen's Sporting Incidents. This work was published by Henry T. Thomas in New York in 1893 The National Horse Show is an annual event, which began in 1883 in the original Madison Square Garden. It continues to this day. A fine plate showing Steeplechase at Hempstead Farms, October 21, 1893. Glenfallon passing Vanity at the In-and-out Jump. The new steeplechase track at the Hempstead Farm Company opened in 1890. Steeplechasing separated itself from flat racing quite early on and has always been the more aristocratic of the two types of horseracing, and the riders are generally wealthy amateurs, rather than professional jockeys. Published during America's Gilded Age, 'Sporting Incidents' is a portfolio of elaborate illustrations depicting equine sporting events and accompanied by H. Milford Steele's eloquent descriptions of the history and status of these activities. It was primarily intended to glorify the increasingly fashionable sports of coaching, hunting, polo and steeple chasing. In its introduction, Colonel William Jay, a founding member of the Coaching Club, extolled the beneficial effect such activities had on the health, behaviour, and moral character of both participants and spectators and explained that the "aim of the artist in this book has been to reproduce such horses and carriages with such details of their equipment as may be useful as hints to those who need them, at the same time furnishing a standard of correctness in such matters."
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Jul. 20, 2019
Allen - The Meadow Brook Hunt, At Westbury
Est: $300 - $600
This fine plate is from W. S. Vanderbilt Allen's Sporting Incidents. This work was published by Henry T. Thomas in New York in 1893 The National Horse Show is an annual event, which began in 1883 in the original Madison Square Garden. It continues to this day. A fine plate showing the Meadow Brook Hunt Club in action in 1892. The Meadow Brook Hunt Club was established in 1881, when fox hunting in Long Island was still possible and not objected to. Published during America's Gilded Age, 'Sporting Incidents' is a portfolio of elaborate illustrations depicting equine sporting events and accompanied by H. Milford Steele's eloquent descriptions of the history and status of these activities. It was primarily intended to glorify the increasingly fashionable sports of coaching, hunting, polo and steeple chasing. In its introduction, Colonel William Jay, a founding member of the Coaching Club, extolled the beneficial effect such activities had on the health, behaviour, and moral character of both participants and spectators and explained that the "aim of the artist in this book has been to reproduce such horses and carriages with such details of their equipment as may be useful as hints to those who need them, at the same time furnishing a standard of correctness in such matters."
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Jul. 20, 2019
Allen - The Road Coach Acquidneck
Est: $300 - $600
This fine plate is from W. S. Vanderbilt Allen's Sporting Incidents. This work was published by Henry T. Thomas in New York in 1893 The National Horse Show is an annual event, which began in 1883 in the original Madison Square Garden. It continues to this day. A fine plate showing the Road Coach Acquidneck, Horsed and driven by Mr. H. Astor Carey. The Coach Club of New York was founded in 1875, and it established the Newport Coaching Weekend, which still takes place.The driving and maintenance of a road coach was considered both an art and a sport, and a very fashionable pastime. The "Acquidneck" was, according to the text, the first road coach to run out of Newport. Published during America's Gilded Age, 'Sporting Incidents' is a portfolio of elaborate illustrations depicting equine sporting events and accompanied by H. Milford Steele's eloquent descriptions of the history and status of these activities. It was primarily intended to glorify the increasingly fashionable sports of coaching, hunting, polo and steeple chasing. In its introduction, Colonel William Jay, a founding member of the Coaching Club, extolled the beneficial effect such activities had on the health, behaviour, and moral character of both participants and spectators and explained that the "aim of the artist in this book has been to reproduce such horses and carriages with such details of their equipment as may be useful as hints to those who need them, at the same time furnishing a standard of correctness in such matters."
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Jul. 20, 2019
Allen - The High Jump, National Horse Show Association
Est: $300 - $600
This fine plate depicts a magnificent high jump from W. S. Vanderbilt Allen's Sporting Incidents. This work was published by Henry T. Thomas in New York in 1893 The National Horse Show is an annual event, which began in 1883 in the original Madison Square Garden. It continues to this day. This 1892 scene occurred in the second Madison Square Garden, which opened in 1891. Published during America's Gilded Age, 'Sporting Incidents' is a portfolio of elaborate illustrations depicting equine sporting events and accompanied by H. Milford Steele's eloquent descriptions of the history and status of these activities. It was primarily intended to glorify the increasingly fashionable sports of coaching, hunting, polo and steeple chasing. In its introduction, Colonel William Jay, a founding member of the Coaching Club, extolled the beneficial effect such activities had on the health, behaviour, and moral character of both participants and spectators and explained that the "aim of the artist in this book has been to reproduce such horses and carriages with such details of their equipment as may be useful as hints to those who need them, at the same time furnishing a standard of correctness in such matters."
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Sep. 20, 2016
William Vanderbilt Allen, American, 1860-1931, watercolor, “Steeplechase at Hempstead Farms, October 21, 1893 Glenfallon passing Van...
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
William Vanderbilt Allen, American, 1860-1931, watercolor, 'Steeplechase at Hempstead Farms, October 21, 1893 Glenfallon passing Vanity at the In-and-Out Jump.', image size 18 1/2" x 25 1/2", overall 31 1/2" x 39" in a good gilt frame. This is one of the original artworks for a portfolio entitled Sporting Incidents; Being a Collection of sixteen plates done in color…representing the most important events of the track, field and road. The portfolio contained just 16 prints and only 1000 portfolio were issued in 1893. A wealthy artist, William Allen was a great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris for ten years with Jules Lefebvre, Claude Monet, William Bouguereau and Jean-Leon Gerome.In Europe, he became good friends with William Merritt Chase, and they often painted the same subject matter. Around 1891, he was in the San Antonio, Texas area, sketching U. S. troops in uniform as the Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo
William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals
May. 16, 2015
Print 'The High Jump"
Est: $50 - $100
Print "The High Jump" (National Horse Show Association, New York 1892/Painted by W.S. Vanderbilt Allen/Printed by Helotype printing Co.). In birdseye maple frame. Sight 16" x 20".
Copake Auction Inc.
Jun. 12, 2014
6 PRINTS 2 ENGRAVINGS PARIS 4 VANDERBILT PRINTS
Est: $100 - $300
A lot of six prints including two hand colored engravings of grand Parisian architecture, and four William Sullivan Vanderbilt Allen prints. The Allen prints depicting scenes of Colonial America and the Revolutionary War.
Kamelot Auctions
Jun. 15, 2013
After W.S. Vanderbilt Allen, (American, 1860-1931), "Steeplechase at Hempstead Farms, October 21, 1893", Lithograph, 16" x 21 1/2",...
Est: $150 - $300
After W.S. Vanderbilt Allen (American, 1860-1931) "Steeplechase at Hempstead Farms, October 21, 1893" Lithograph Published in New York, 1893 for Sporting Incidents. Printed by The Heliotype Printing Co. Framed under glass. Light and even toning around matte borders. Deaccessioned from The Boar's Head Inn. 16" x 21 1/2", frame: 27 1/2" x 32 1/4"
Quinn's Auction Galleries Central Virginia
Apr. 13, 2011
William Sullivant Vanderbilt Allen (1860-1931), "federal hall 1782", Inscribed in graphite on verso, "Colonel & Private 1st Regiment Co
Est: $800 - $1,200
William Sullivant Vanderbilt Allen (1860-1931) "federal hall 1782" Inscribed in graphite on verso, "Colonel & Private 1st Regiment Continental Rhode Island Infrantry, W.S. Allen 1891," engraved title plaque on frame, watercolor on paper, framed. 25 1/2 in. x 17 1/2 in. (sight)
Freeman's | Hindman
Apr. 13, 2011
William Sullivant Vanderbilt Allen (1860-1931), "independence hall 1780", Signed, W.S. Allen, 1890," engraved title plaque on frame, wa
Est: $800 - $1,200
William Sullivant Vanderbilt Allen (1860-1931) "independence hall 1780" Signed, W.S. Allen, 1890," engraved title plaque on frame, watercolor on paper, framed. 25 1/2 in. x 17 1/2 in. (sight)
Freeman's | Hindman
Nov. 18, 2007
(Sketchbook), Attributed to W.S. Vanderbilt Allen (1860-1931), drawn into Lang, A., Rhymes a la Mode...
Est: $300 - $500
(Sketchbook), Attributed to W.S. Vanderbilt Allen (1860-1931), drawn into Lang, A., Rhymes a la Mode, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885, numbered 46 of 50 copies, with approximately twenty-two sketches on various pages, done in black, blue and red ink, depicting genre scenes, character sketches, and elegant ladies, some dated '87, in gilt tooled full blue morocco, slipcased, 8vo, (good, minor scuffing).
Skinner
Mar. 11, 2004
William Sullivant Vanderbilt Allen (1860-1931)
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
In the Music Room with Daffodils signed and inscribed 'Very truly yours William S. Allen' (upper right) oil on canvas 21 3/4 x 18 in. (55.2 x 45.7 cm.)
Christie's
Oct. 09, 2003
William Sullivant Vanderbilt Allen (1860-1931)
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
William Sullivant Vanderbilt Allen (1860-1931) Evening by the Lake signed and dated 'W.S. Allen 1887.' (lower left) oil on canvas 23 1/2 x 22 3/4 in. (59.7 x 57.8 cm.) (2)
Christie's