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The WG could perhaps represent the Wapping Group.
A group of London Artists formed 1946 to capture the ever changing water front / record the passing history of London Dockland & its demise....
A member was John Wheeler (drat predictive spelling) member 1956-1970.
A lovely painting...of what?
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Nothing in the usual places - there's a G Wheeler - who we are told was resident in Laguna Beach in 1936, a Sir Charles Wheeler, who was primarily a sculptor but also painted, and a John Wheeler, born in 1900, and an English painter named Hannah Wheeler, still living and working. But no W G - so, as so often with these things, the plot thickens. So a picture of the picture may help.
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That's a beautifully clear signature - the art expert's dream! It's not helping to find him or her at the moment, but who knows, it might. Looking at the painting only superficially at the moment - I think it's probably by a very, very competent amateur or semi-professional: but a much longer look is called for. Have you taken professional advice I wonder, spoken to a gallery or art dealer? It might be worth your while.
I like the painting very much, whoever painted it: do we know the scene? Do you think it's a British painting, or at least a painting of somewhere in Britain? Some clue as to the place might yield the key to the identity of the painter - and perhaps W G Wheeler is still out there somewhere; it would be wonderful if we could track him down.
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Hi Guys,
Thanks so much for your information and kind assistance. I am really grateful. I have very little experience about paintings and this one in particular apart from it came from a family that once lived down south (St Ives area). I accuired it along with a Yram Allets piece and also a couple by Peter Ellenshaw. I have attached some photos for you to see.
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The last picture looks like a print, which would explain the fading. Although these are good photographs, it's hard to be sure. Boots sold a lot of prints years ago, some on textured paper that looked a bit like canvas - I had one, by (I think) Vernon Ward. Most of them were by competent, working painters - not great names, but working professionals. I suspect that one of yours at least falls into this category. I don't remember that Boots offered a framing service to painters - they might have, but I'm not sure at all that they did: and a professional painter would have gone to an independent framer who specialized in actual paintings: what Boots DID do was offer a range of own-brand prints, a bit like Athena these days, which adorned many a suburban living room, including ours. The Sunny Cove painting is, I'm fairly sure, one of these.
The tree picture is a bit of an oddity - badly framed, and I don't think a lot of the picture either, at first sight!
The rough sea painting - this has been framed by an independent studio, about which it might be possible to find details, but also looks like a print. The top one is the one that interests me - it looks like a painting, rather than a print, on canvas glued to board, and is by far the most attractive picture of all of them. IF it's a real painting, signed and dated, it might repay further study - I've no idea if it would be of any great value, but maybe that's not what interests you. I'm pretty confident that the others aren't - prints of this period have to be really well done, with lightfast inks, to have any value.
Pleasant enough to have around the house, then, and they may have sentimental value - but the only one I'd think worth investigating is the Ellenshaw seascape. Still can't help with Mr or Ms Wheeler, I'm afraid - so suspect a competent amateur. Nothing wrong with those: it IS 'bookended', which is a bit of a fault if the two framing elements are too symmetrical, and I'm not 100% sure it isn't also a print, on canvas-textured paper. If it's paint, you can tell by running a finger over it - if the texture is just printed, it's obvious: but one of the things that's hard to tell from a photo.
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Just noticed on the top painting, at the very bottom there's a copyright notice printed on the picture, so I'm afraid that's almost certainly a print as well, just (so far as I can see) a better quality one than the others - it's not the artist's copyright stamp, but the company that printed the picture. Unless you know differently, that is - don't think we've got treasure trove here. One day.........
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http://www.ellenshaw.com/bio_peterellenshaw.htm
Worth a look, for interest's sake; a distinguished gentleman, with a 70 year career as an artist. Unfortunately - many prints were made of his work: but your best one is a very attractive painting: if it WERE an original, an actual painting on canvas, it would be worth a few quid. So do make sure. I know I'm harping on the financial here, but if that's of no interest to you, just ignore it.
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