Robert Mills Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Robert Mills Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 19, 2024
Robert James Mills
Est: $200 - $400
(South Carolina, 1920 - 1981) Watercolor of coastal fishing wharf signed lower left. Framed nicely and in good condition. H13 1/2" W20 1/4" (without mat and frame) Sold from the collection of an Upcountry, South Carolina gentleman.
Wooten & Wooten Auctioneers
Feb. 10, 2023
Rare First Edition Book: Mills' Statistics
Est: $200 - $300
Rare First Edition Book: Mills' Statistics published Charleston 1826, by Robert Mills (1781-1855) "Statistics of South Carolina Including a View of its Natural, Civil, and Military History General and Particular" published by Hunlburt and Lloyd. With fold-out map, title page inscribed " Tho. Williams, Jr. York", and another the later dated 1957. Original mottled leather binding. Provenance: Dr. & Mrs. C.G. Hopper, Jr. Collection
Charlton Hall
Dec. 03, 2022
Robert R. Young watercolor Monongahela Mills
Est: $200 - $400
Young, Robert R. (American/Western PA, 20th Century), Pittsburgh Monongahela Mills, watercolor, 5 x 7.75 inches, signed lower right margin, framed in a cherry wood frame measuring 13.5 x 16 inches
Concept Art Gallery
Jun. 12, 2021
Robert R. Young watercolor Mills at Night
Est: $250 - $500
Young, Robert R. (American/Western PA, 20th Century), Nighttime View of The Mills, circa 1940's, watercolor, 21 x 17.5 inches, signed lower right corner, framed measuring 29 x 25 inches, a view from a hilly town towards the Mills at Night, possibly the Pittsburgh Oakland Soho area.
Concept Art Gallery
Jul. 10, 2020
Robert Mills map, Colleton District
Est: $200 - $400
Robert Mills map, Colleton District circa 1825, from the Mills Atlas, sheet H29 1/4" W27" Provenance: Private collection
Charlton Hall
Jun. 27, 2020
Robert Mills - Oakland, CA Hammered Copper Letter Rack
Est: $300 - $500
Robert Mills - Oakland, CA Hammered Copper Letter Rack c1920. Signed. Excellent original patina. 4.25"h x 6.5"w x 2"d. Spend $5000 or more at this auction and all of your SHIPPING IS FREE within the lower 48 states. SHIPPING We box and ship ourselves, to keep shipping costs low. We do not use a packaging service, unless the customer prefers us to use them. We can ship either USPS or Fed Ex Ground. We often deliver larger pieces ourselves on the west coast and we make a loop around the US in early May & early September each year. No matter where you live in the lower 48 states, we look forward to personally meeting you and delivering larger pieces directly to your house. Most larger pieces can be hand delivered for $300 almost anywhere in the lower 48 states. For estimated shipping times of larger pieces, please call or email us before you bid.
California Historical Design, Inc
Jun. 01, 2018
Southern map, Robert Mills
Est: $300 - $400
Southern map, Robert Mills circa 1838, (Robert Mills, 1781-1855) FAIRFIELD DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA, (from Atlas of the State of South Carolina) engraved by Tanner & Associates, contained within frame H24" W31" Provenance: South Carolina collection
Charlton Hall
Feb. 22, 2018
Southern map, Robert Mills
Est: $300 - $600
Southern map, Robert Mills circa 1838, (Robert Mills, 1781-1855)RICHLAND DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA, (from Atlas of the State of South Carolina) engraved by Tanner & Associates, contained within frame H21 1/2" W28" Provenance: Argosy Book Store, 1960 Palmetto Club Southern private collection Other Notes: This is the rare 1838 edition with deleted date and addition of border. There are less than 300 copies of this edition to be known.
Charlton Hall
Sep. 09, 2016
Robert Mills: Architect of the Washington Monument 1781-1855
Est: -
H. M. Pierce Gallagher. Robert Mills: Architect of the Washington Monument 1781-1855. Morningside Heights NY: Columbia University Press. 1935.
McGee Auction Gallery
Sep. 20, 2014
Robert Mills
Est: $300 - $500
Robert Mills (South Carolina, 1920-1981) GIRL ON BEACH oil on canvas, framed, signed lower left H20" W24" Provenance: Columbia, South Carolina private collection
Charlton Hall
Jun. 21, 2013
Marlborough District, South Carolina map by Robert Mills
Est: $300 - $500
Marlborough District, South Carolina map by Robert Mills (South Carolina, 1781-1855) from ATLAS OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Baltimore: John. D. Troy, 1825; framed. sight: H15 1/2" W19 3/4" Provenance: Charleston, South Carolina private collection
Charlton Hall
Dec. 02, 2012
Robert Mills
Est: $300 - $500
Robert Mills (South Carolina, 1920-1981) THE STEAM TRACTOR, A RELIC OF THE OLD FARM watercolor, framed, signed: lower right sight size: H19" W26 1/2" Provenance: Columbia, South Carolina private collection. Literature: Morris Jr., Jack , CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Greenville, SC: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1970, pg. 164-169.
Charlton Hall
Sep. 09, 2012
Fanny Mahon King
Est: $400 - $800
Fanny Mahon King (South Carolina, 1865-1952) CHARLESTON STATE POWDER MAGAZINE oil on canvas, framed, signed: lower left, verso inscribed: WPA painting Given to Adrienne Bunch by John Larson of Tri... H25" W30" Provenance: Annapolis, Maryland private collection. Other Notes: Between 1820 and 1823, architect Robert Mills (1781-1855) was employed by South Carolina's Board of Public Works, first as Acting Commissioner, then as Superintendent of Public Buildings. For several years afterward, he continued to work for the board as an independent contractor. During his tenure with the Board, Mills designed the Fireproof Building (South Carolina Historical Society, 100 Meeting Street), an addition to the Charleston Jail (American College of the Building Arts, 21 Magazine Street), and a complex of nine powder magazines, with a barracks/gatehouse, in the marshes of the Cooper River off Charleston Neck. Beginning with the Old Powder Magazine, built in the early eighteenth century, public officials erected a series of gunpowder storehouses in and around Charleston. Magazines were built on public land near the Workhouse and Jail in 1737 and 1748; and at Shipyard Creek (Charleston Neck) and Hobcaw Point (Mount Pleasant) in 1772. In 1820, the Shipyard magazine was in such unstable condition that the city was forced to reopen the original magazine on Cumberland Street. The next year, the Board of Public Works finally appropriated $8,000 toward the construction of secure arsenals in the Charleston area. On the Board's behalf, Mills purchased Laurel Island, five acres of high ground south of New Market Creek, from Mrs. Anne Langstaff. Laurel Island was part of a suburban plantation known as Bachelor's Hall when it was owned by colonial governor Thomas Boone. The new location was much preferable to the Shipyard Creek magazine being replaced. Even at low tide, New Market Creek was navigable to the site, making it acceptable to ship's masters; the city was visible from the residence of the keeper, who could thus signal as necessary; and the State Magazines on Laurel Island would be protected by the Neck guard. Construction was underway by the end of 1822. The magazine complex had nine circular buildings. A large magazine twenty feet in diameter, structurally supported by a column carrying the vaulted ceiling, could store four thousand kegs of publicly-owned gunpowder; the smaller magazines, each with a capacity of one thousand kegs, were assigned to different importers of powder. Mills himself noted that the -advantage of this arrangement will be that every importer of powder will have his own magazine, and in case of any accident to one the rest will be secure from explosion.- The magazines had thick brick masonry walls coated with rough-cast stucco, brownstone lintels and sills at the entries, and conical slated roofs. The gatehouse was a two-story barracks for guards built around an arched -grand gateway leading into the magazine court- where the magazines sat in three rows 130' apart. Tensions were constant between those who wanted gunpowder readily accessible in Charleston, and those who feared its proximity. In 1851, while South Carolina's Governor and Legislature urged the use of magazines in the wings of the Citadel, City Council was loudly opposed, because -the erection of a powder magazine within the City of Charleston will be not only dangerous to the lives of the citizens, but will materially impair the value of real estate in the vicinity of the magazine from the fact that, in the event of the alarm of fire being given in that neighborhood, the firemen would not be willing to venture there, consequently the owners of property could not obtain insurance on their property as in other parts of the city.- The magazines remained on Laurel Island. In 1872, the state-owned land and buildings, described as thirteen acres, was sold to City Council of Charleston. The city rented the nine magazines to the E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. for storage of dynamite and -black keg powder,- then conveyed part of the property to Seaboard Air Line Railway in 1915. The railroad company tore down two of the magazines in order to lay track to Union Station downtown. The remaining seven magazines were demolished in the 1940s. Courtesy of The Preservation Society of Charleston.
Charlton Hall
Sep. 18, 2011
19TH C. AMERICAN OIL ON CANVAS, PORTRAIT OF ROBERT MILLS, 1781-1855, 36" X 28"
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
19TH C. AMERICAN OIL ON CANVAS, PORTRAIT OF ROBERT MILLS, 1781-1855, 36" X 28": With Washington Monument over right shoulder. Unsigned; framed.
DuMouchelles
Nov. 22, 2008
Tortoiseshell Washington Monument card case
Est: $300 - $500
Tortoiseshell, eglomise and mother-of-pearl card case circa 1840 The shaped case decorated with eglomise and mother-of pearl panel depicting architect Robert Mills (1781-1855) original design for the Washington Monument, a spray of mother-of-pearl flowers on back. H: 3 3/4 in. PROVENANCE: Note: The Mills design of 1836 was modified and the Washington Monument completed in 1886.
Freeman's
Oct. 02, 2005
Mills, Robert
Est: $800 - $1,200
Mills, Robert South Carolina (1920-1981) THE OLD FARM watercolor on paper, framed signed: lower left, Robert Mills sight size: H18" W28"
Charlton Hall