William James Stillman Paintings & Artwork for Sale | William James Stillman Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 30, 2023
William James Stillman, attr. (1828-1901)
Est: £200 - £300
William James Stillman, attr. (1828-1901) William James Stillman, attr. (1828-1901) THE PARTHENON, ATHENS, c.1870. Large panoramic-format carbon print, image/sheet size 225 x445mm, annotated 'Agrigento' in unknown hand in pencil verso.
Chiswick Auctions
Oct. 18, 2020
WILLIAM JAMES STILLMAN (1828 - 1901): "GRANT AT RICHMOND"
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
oil on canvas signed lower right Civil War battlefield with Union cavalry Provenance: Goldfiield Galleries, Los Angeles, California 26 x 38 inches canvas; 35 1/2 x 47 1/2 inches
Abell Auction
Apr. 11, 2019
* Stillman (William James, 1828-1901). The Acropolis of Athens, circa 1870, carbon print, s1mall cre
Est: £200 - £300
* Stillman (William James, 1828-1901). The Acropolis of Athens, circa 1870, carbon print, s1mall crease to lower left corner, 22.5 x 44.5cm (Qty: 1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Apr. 05, 2017
WILLIAM J. STILLMAN | 'The Acropolis of Athens, Illustrated Picturesquely and Architecturally in Photography'
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
(London: F. S. Ellis, 1870), a book illustrated with 26 carbon prints of the Architecture and Environs of the Acropolis, comprising one small carbon print on the title and 25 larger carbon prints, most numbered and a few with the photographer's signature, caption, and/or date in the negative, mounted to a leaf, each with a leaf of accompanying text. Tall folio, gilt-lettered green one-quarter morocco (Truthful Lens 155; NYPL 223; Photobook Vol. I, p. 68)
Sotheby's
May. 21, 2015
STILLMAN, WILLIAM JAMES (1828-1901) "Dog in Crete."
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
STILLMAN, WILLIAM JAMES (1828-1901) "Dog in Crete." Arch-topped albumen print, 7 7/8x6 inches (20x15.4 cm.), on the original mount. 1865-68
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 08, 2014
STILLMAN William James, 1869. Rare albumen photo (24x19cm), depicting Erechtheion & Caryatids of Acropolis. Numbered "23" in negative. Attached on carton. In Excellent condition. William J. Stillman..
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STILLMAN William James, 1869. Rare albumen photo (24x19cm), depicting Erechtheion & Caryatids of Acropolis. Numbered "23" in negative. Attached on carton. In Excellent condition. William J. Stillman........ The current photo also appears in the archives of J. Paul Getty Museum. RARE.
Karamitsos
Nov. 08, 2014
STILLMAN William James, 1869. Rare albumen photo (24x19cm), the interior of Parthenon - Acropolis. Numbered "14" in negative. Attached on carton. In Excellent condition. William J. Stillman........ Th
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STILLMAN William James, 1869. Rare albumen photo (24x19cm), the interior of Parthenon - Acropolis. Numbered "14" in negative. Attached on carton. In Excellent condition. William J. Stillman........ The current photo also appears in the archives of MOMA Museum in New York. RARE.
Karamitsos
Apr. 05, 2014
STILLMAN William James, 1869. Rare albumen photo (24x19cm), of the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
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STILLMAN William James, 1869. Rare albumen photo (24x19cm), depicting the entrance of Acropolis, Proplylae & Temple of Athena Nike. Signed & numbered "WStillman 69" in negative. Attached on carton. In Excellent condition. William J. Stillman was an influential artist, journalist & photographer. His views of the Acropolis monuments are considered to be aesthetic and romantic observations, distinct from most photographers who captured Athenian monuments. The images of Acropolis were highly regarded and avidly collected already from the end of 19th century. Such photographs are rarely available for purchase, particularly uncommon as albumen prints and are presented in photographic archives of important libraries and museums around the world. The current photo in book "ΑΘΗΝΑ 1839-1900 - Φωτογραφικές Μαρτυρίες", Μουσείο ΜΠΕΝΑΚΗ, pp.90. RARE
Karamitsos
Apr. 05, 2014
STILLMAN William James, 1869. Rare albumen photo (24x19cm), of the Parthenon - Acropolis, Athens, Greece
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STILLMAN William James, 1869. Rare albumen photo (24x19cm), depicting the Western Portico of the Parthenon - Acropolis. Numbered "10" in negative. Attached on carton. In Excellent condition.William J. Stillman was an influential artist, journalist & photographer. His views of the Acropolis monuments are considered to be aesthetic and romantic observations, distinct from most photographers who captured Athenian monuments. The images of Acropolis were highly regarded and avidly collected already from the end of 19th century. Such photographs are rarely available for purchase, particularly uncommon as albumen prints and are presented in photographic archives of important libraries and museums around the world. The current photo also appears in the archives of MOMA Museum in New York. RARE.
Karamitsos
Nov. 21, 2008
William James Stillman (American, 1828-1901)
Est: $600 - $800
William James Stillman (American, 1828-1901) Greece, ca. 1870; Carbon print; 9 1/2'' x 7 1/4'' (sheet)
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Oct. 17, 2003
WILLIAM J. STILLMAN 1828-1901 'THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS. ILLUSTRATED PICTURESQUELY AND ARCHITECTURALLY IN PHOTOGRAPHY'
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
ARTIST'S NATIONALITY American DETAILED DESCRIPTION (London: F. S. Ellis, 1870), a book illustrated with 26 carbon prints of the Architecture and Environs of the Acropolis, comprising one small carbon print on the title and 25 larger carbon prints, most numbered and a few with the photographer's signature, caption, and/or date in the negative, mounted one to a leaf, each with a leaf of accompanying text. Tall folio, gilt-lettered green one-quarter morocco, the bookplate of James Hale Bates on the front pastedown PROVENANCE Christie's New York, 28 October 1987, Sale 6468, Lot 439, to the current owner; originally from the collection of the Packer Collegiate Institute LITERATURE Truthful Lens 155 NYPL 223 Pare, Photography and Architecture, 1839?1939, pls. 65, 66 (variant), and 68, and pp. 241-2 Ehrenkranz et al., Poetic Localities: Photographs of... William J. Stillman, pp. 22-3, pls. 19-33, figs. xv, xviii-xx, and pp. 111-4 Edwards, 'Foreign Photographers in Greece in the 19th-Century,' in Benaki Museum, Athens 1839-1900: A Photographic Record, p. 22
Sotheby's
Apr. 24, 2003
(USE HORIZONTAL, BUT ONLY IF IT APPEARS LARGER THAN ONE COLUMN WIDTH; OTHERWISE, PICK ONE OF THE TWO VERTICALS) WILLIAM JAMES STILLMAN
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
(American 1828-1901) ATHENS 7 credited and/or initialed, dated, 2 titled and each sequentially numbered in negative or in pencil on recto label with printed titled adhered to each mount stamp "University College, London" on verso of each mount 25 albumen prints mounted in folio (lacking plate 17) with credit and title in gilt on top flap each approximately: 71/2 x 91/2 in. (19.1 x 24.2 cm) or the inverse overall: 183/8 x 141/2 in. (46.7 x 35.9 cm) circa 1869 PROVENANCE Private Collection LITERATURE Richard Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, Montreal, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1985, pl. 65 & 66 (2 illustrated) Alkis X. Xanthakis, HISTORY OF GREEK PHOTOGRAPHY 1839-1960, Athens: Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive, 1988, pp. 88-90 William James Stillman was an American diplomat and writer. He was based in Crete in the Mediterranean as Consul from 1865 to 1867. He moved from Crete to Athens the following year and there undertook the project of making this fine series of studies of the ruins of the Parthenon and related buildings on the Acropolis. Stillman moved on from Athens to London and there, in 1870, published his Acropolis images as carbon prints. The series is rare, and particularly uncommon as albumen prints.
Phillips
May. 10, 2002
WILLIAM JAMES STILLMAN (1828-1901)
Est: $36,500 - $43,800
Athens 25 of 26 albumen prints. Circa 1869. Each approximately 71/2 x 91/2in. (19.1 x 24.2cm.) or the reverse. 2 with arched tops. 7 credited and/or initialed, dated, 2 titled and each sequentially numbered in the negative or in pencil on the recto; each with letterpress title label affixed to the mount; University College, London collection stamp (cancelled) on the reverse of the mount. Lacking plate 17. Black leather folding case with ties, rebacked in black cloth with credit and title in gilt on top flap, gilt. Overall size: 18 3/8 x 141/2in. (46.7 x 35.9cm.) (25) LITERATURE See: Pare, Photography and Architecture, pl. 65, 66; Xanthakis, History of Greek Photography 1839-1960, pp. 88-90. NOTES The American diplomat and journalist, William James Stillman, served as American Consul in Crete, where he photographed from 1865-67. In 1868, he moved to Athens with his family, only to enter a tragic, but artistically rich phase in his life, during which his son died, his wife committed suicide and he made this fine series of photographs of the ruins of Athens. Stillman had travelled extensively and established relationships within intellectual and artistic circles in America and Europe, particularly with the Pre-Raphaelites in London. He met Maria Spartali, the daughter of the Greek Consul in London, more known today as one of the favourite models of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Julia Margaret Cameron, and married her in 1871. Like many other early photographers Stillman appears to have executed one important series of images and then moved on to other interests. 25 photographs from his Athens series were published as carbon prints in London as The Acropolis of Athens Illustrated Picturesquely and Architecturally in Photography (London: F. S. Ellis, 1870). It is rare to find examples of either the carbon print series or this portfolio of albumen prints today. His only other known photographic publication was Poetic Localities of Cambridge, published in Boston in 1876. A list of titles is available upon request.
Christie's
May. 10, 2001
William James Stillman
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
William James Stillman athens. 'curve of stylobale', 1869 Albumen Print, mounted on card with printed photographer's credit 'Photographed by W.J. Stillman', series title 'Athens - The Acropolis' and publisher's credit 'Published by Marion & Co. 22 & 23, Soho Square, London.', monogrammed and dated 'WS 69' twice in the negative, and titled and numbered '16', 240 by 188mm Stillman published a series of his studies in 1870 under the title The Acropolis of Athens Illustrated Picturesquely and Architecturally in Photography. Provenance: W. Bradley-Lemery, New York, 1978.
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