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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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He had what the cognoscenti call "a lively line" in his sketches and figure paintings; but the one shown last but one - I think it reads "for Dolores", or something similar - is not convincing; the line of the jaw, and  the way the index finger lies against the face, don't look like the work of a competent portraitist.  Of course, it may be an early work?
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I've had a look online - that painting was attributed to Becker in  one exhibition, but has also been attributed to an Australian artist named Patterson; a more likely attribution I would have thought, since while I wouldn't go so far as to call it "awful", I wouldn't stray too far from that word either.  As for the lower painting - not convinced, but at least it's well painted.  
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Bit of further investigation - the lowest of the pictures isn't a Becker either; it's a painting by Wm. Duckworth Greenham - or so we're told.  It certainly doesn't bear any resemblance to anything Becker ever painted.  Quite the journey of discovery..... PS - the Patterson painting is actually signed by Patterson. 

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks Robert , I just took it at face value that they were his as a  gallery had attributed them  to him , thankfully we have people who will look close and find out who actually painted them. 
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Russell Edwards

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I like the one by Wm. Duckworth Greenham 
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