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amela begic

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Does anyone knows and can read this signature? And some information about this picture, type or technique ? Thank you so much

Sylvia Evans

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The signature doesn't mean anything to me. But it is a lovely painting. Try googling what you can make out adding "artist" the big auction houses may be able to help and give you some info. If you do find out could you post here and enlighten please...happy hunting.
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Linda Wilson

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I think that it looks like "Garnier". So it could be French or English. If you google Garnier signature, you will find a similar signature, though it doesn't say that he painted, but he was a naval man, so he could be interested in boats.

Sylvia Evans

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https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=19&ved=0ahUKEwiYmfLou47QAhWbHsAKHYxTAakQFghBMBI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fitm%2FVICTORIAN-OIL-FISHERMEN-AT-LOW-TIDE-LISTED-ARTIST-AUGUSTE-GARNIER-FREE-SHIPPING-%2F162256401870&usg=AFQjCNGGWfvwJjAUMSAULX7wC7RZa7XcwA&sig2=FRYssYBRQAmvAmgpI7cs0w Have a look at this link on eBay ?
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I can only find one other sample of Auguste Leopold Garnier's (1806 - 1867) work or signature. There are some similarities in both cases, but the other signature (on the link Sylvia/North Light provides) is more florid than the one above. But then, artist's signatures do change. You need to take this painting to an art dealer, auctioneer or valuer - if it were cleaned and framed it would have some value, especially as so far as I can see it SEEMS to be in good condition for its age, if it's by the artist we suspect (although I'm not entirely convinced we've got the right one). It's very difficult even for an expert to evaluate a painting on-screen, and I wouldn't claim to be an expert - I haven't dealt in antiques for some 40 years. http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Yes, I agree about the proportion of the figures, sharp-eyed Syd! This is why I doubted the painting's authorship: the painting to which Sylvia linked was altogether more competent, and together with the variation in signature (not only is the online one more elaborate, it doesn't form a diagonal up the painting, which I always think best avoided). Still an attractive painting overall though. In passing, I wonder if it needs a clean (it probably will if it's Victorian) or whether the painter used the very characteristic Brown Madder Alizarin (which is a touch intrusive if you're not careful with it) in his sky - not that it makes any practical difference, I'm just fascinated by these things and do like to wander off on a complete tangent....! Incidentally, if the original poster would like to give us a photograph of the painting from the back, it would help to assess its actual age - it may help us to rule Garnier in or out, because the very latest this painting could date to if it IS one of his is 1867; the stretchers, any labels, state of the canvas would offer clues. The value of the picture, even if it is by Garnier, is not going to be huge: the one offered on the net is priced at only £165 - the picture has been relined at some point, and there's a note about the paint being cracked in places: not necessarily fatal provided it's not falling off the canvas; but again, this makes me wonder about this one - OK, it's a screen-shot, I'm not seeing too well and so on, but the condition of it is suspiciously good for a mid-Victorian painting. As to the value of this one, knock the dealer's commission off of that and you'll be lucky to waltz off with £100. If it were me, I'd do my best to find out who did paint it, frame it, and enjoy it. http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk

Alan Bickley

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I'm with Syd on this one, sorry but it looks to have been painted by an amateur hand and as such will have little value.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Interesting technique - is it watercolour? If you know the artist, perhaps you would ask him to consider showing his work on the gallery here. http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk

Paul Whitehead

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Hi I am looking for some advice please. My partner found 2 oil paintings in her Grandads loft one with a signature of M Harrison and the other J Mellor. I have uploaded the paintings but after google searches am unable to find any information at all hence my query for all of you experts out there! Thank you in anticipation

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Both are painted by amateurs which is why you won't find any information online. They have no significant value and are poorly painted which is probably why they were left in a loft.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Saved one of them to the computer (the top one) and turned it up the right way. These are quite pleasant amateur paintings, of which I prefer the one signed Mellor, just as a matter of interest (or otherwise): they look to be in good condition, and I'm sure someone would pay a few pounds for them; but neither artist is known to me, and while that doesn't mean a thing, the quality of the painting does: quite nice, but not of any great value, I'm afraid. One day, someone will turn up a valuable painting from grandpa's attic, and we'll get all excited: but unfortunately that day hasn't arrived yet. Take them to an auction house if you don't want to keep them yourself, but if you care about them at all, be aware that the frames are probably worth more than the paintings and that's what they'll be bought for in all likelihood. I could live with them - someone has made an effort and done their best and that's always got an inherent worth, but I'm afraid Grandad's legacy isn't going to make your partner rich.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Syd - I've every sympathy with your point, and with Alan's mode of reply: but I live in hope that one day someone will turn up a real corker of a painting and we'll be the ones to discover it. Unlikely, in the extreme, I'm afraid. If it's in the loft there's usually a very good reason. But - I'm a kindly old soul at root, and if someone asks me a question I do try to answer it: until I've bored them into a state of total stupefaction.
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