Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
No public-rights comparable sales meet the current evidence criteria. RELICT does not fill the table with research-only or licensed-only facts.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum
The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
1729
Market Intelligence
Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.
Last known price
$20,000
Dealer sale · Oct 1, 1936
+233.3% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
$6K1936
$20K1936
Last known price$20,0002 matched observed sales
Observed median$13,000
Observed sales2
Artist index—
1936-10-01Dealer sale$20,000.00
1936-05-18Dealer purchase$6,000.00
Artist index unavailableInsufficient qualifying evidence; no synthetic curve is published.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.
Evidence ranked
Provenance
Public$52
$52
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Source provenance text
$52
The Metropolitan Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
$52
The Metropolitan Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Sourced Overview Evidence
This depiction of a wedding is one of the artist’s first attempts in the fashionable genre of the conversation piece, a type of group portrait. Beckingham, a London lawyer, and his bride are flanked by members of their families. The setting is based on St. Martin-in-the-Fields, a church in Trafalgar Square, not the actual venue where the wedding took place. The solemn event depicted here gave Hogarth less opportunity for satirical humor than the “modern moral subjects” that made him famous.
The Metropolitan Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
2 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.
Credit LineShort DescriptionProvenance TextExhibition History