Beetle
Free art market data for everyone.
Beetle is a free search engine which indexes factual auction data, price histories, and market analytics together in one place. The initial founding of Beetle was in 2025, where the mission was to make art valuations easier by providing analytics to assess art as a research project. The research project which was the ‘Beetle 1’ quickly grew and developed into a platform as the indexing systems became more sophisticated alongside Beetles’ algebraic refineries.
Beetle is designed to aid collectors, art enthusiasts, specialists, galleries, students, clients and auction houses by pursuing a transparent view of an artist’s market through their sales histories with total clarity and speed. Users can be well-informed and confident about an artist’s performance in the secondary market through Beetle.
Our current indexing hosts hundreds of thousands of artist pages and just under ten million lots indexed so that researchers can navigate through data records which stem back nearly 28 years. Search for any artist. See what their work has sold for, where, and when.
We do not charge a subscription fee. The data here is free because we believe that better access to information makes better decisions possible. Later developments will include future products designed to further enhance day to day life across the art world.
The Beetle Terminal
The Beetle Terminal delivers auction history for any artist. Analytics are derived from the graph which provides a macro overview to the general health of an artists market. The interactive graph allows you to see sections of an artists portfolio, whether it’s different mediums, or sales performances at different auction houses. You can see at a glance whether a market is growing, plateauing, or declining. Beneath is the recent activity table, which changes accordingly when you interact with the graph, whilst the sales histories are provided on the right, and are sortable through multiple different queries and filters.
Creative Search
Beetles’ Creative Search feature allows the user to discover new artists and markets by combining the filters available. Those are; nationality, gender, century, movement, medium. Combine as many as you like and Beetle returns every matching artist in the database. It’s how you find artists nobody else has heard of yet, and how you build contextual awareness around the markets you already follow.
Blue Chip Rankings
Blue Chip Rankings gives you a live view of the top-performing artists by total auction value, updated with every sale.
Team
Founding partners.
Founding partners Edward Stucley and George Pardoe share a deep interest in History, the History of Art and the Secondary Art Market – and a vision of an art world built on efficiency and transparency.
Edward Stucley
DirectorEdward, 24 years old, served eight months as a Porter at Sloane Street Auctions before rising to Cataloguing Assistant, where he took on additional administrative responsibilities, including accounts and debt collection.
Within a year, at age twenty-three, he was appointed Head of Cataloguing to address inefficiencies in production reducing catalogue turnaround times from one month to two days.
During this time, he designed and implemented a new cataloguing system from the ground up, significantly improving workflow, sales volume, and overall efficiency.
By November 2024, these changes had materially transformed operations. He now serves as Director and Engineer of Beetle, having designed and built the platform's entire infrastructure, pipelines, refineries and interface.
George Pardoe
Head of Marketing and CommunicationsGeorge, 23 years old, has a rich history of facing clients across multiple industries, including the selling and valuation of sporting guns, and also a record of ventures from a young age, such as a self-taught day trader in the US stock market, a farm-to-fork fresh produce business, and a freelance gardening service.
Having left university with a First Class Honours in Business and Marketing Management, George is at the tip of the spear for Marketing and Communications at Beetle.