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Antony Deaves

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I bought the attached canvas at a junk shop for £5 about 4 years ago. I’d love to see if they made anymore but I can’t work out the signature and Google lens can’t identify the painting Nor the signature . Is anyone able to help , I’d be interested to see their other work 

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Alan Bickley

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It has been painted by an amateur hand, so unlikely Google would have any information about the ‘artist’, even if you could identify the signature - which looks like G. Roff or something similar. It has some strange stippling type of paint application to much of the canvas, which doesn’t do much to improve the overall look of the piece. It has suffered some serious flaking by the looks of it, probably down to the canvas not being primed correctly, if at all, in the first place.

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Alan Bickley

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Removed, contained link to gaming site!
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Plenty of Groffs about - no Roffs that I can find.  The painting could be restored - it's quite attractive, though I don't recognize the design  of those boats - others probably will - but economically it wouldn't be  worth it: unless we can find a treasure trove of Roffs  hitting the market and intriguing buyers.  To  be honest, I doubt that we will...  There's stippling, and what looks like sponge-work, making quite a mix of techniques; rather too many for one small painting: still, I can see what caught your eye.  

Alan Morris

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The (rightly) removed post which I reported early this morning, did contain a valid point.  These sort of paintings were manufactured during the 1960’s and 70’s  to reflect trends in subject matter and colours.  They were freely available from department stores etc and were often distressed to look “old”.  My father had something similar proudly displayed above the fireplace, his “original oil painting “, of which he very was pleased!

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Robert Jones, Napa

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Alan (M) - you remind me: yes indeed, they were ubiquitous once upon a time; some of them were attractive and colourful, brightened up a dull corner: and I think this is probably one such; well remembered.   This does reinforce the thought that the artist signature might not really refer to anyone in particular, and certainly won't be a known artist - so the original poster could waste a lot of time on a fruitless search trying to find them.