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Anybody know the about the painter who did this painting ?
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Hello
Anybody know the about the painter who did this painting ?
I can't read the signature.
It's an oil painting with a varnish over it.
This painting are 24 inch X 36 inch.
Any opinions about this painting ?
Here's the link to the images.
https://pli.io/UP0Tw.jpg
https://pli.io/UPbq9.jpg
Thank
Bye
Gaetan
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Victorian genre painting - if it's a genuine oil painting on canvas, it has some value; very hard or impossible to tell how much. I don't recognize the artist or the signature, but it looks like Lansley, or Lewis or something similar.
I'll try to find it, but am not optimistic. An auction house/valuer would probably be useful to you, if you happen to have one nearby. I've only just got my computer back, so haven't had a chance to look into this any further; but you have a painting there which you could sell and make some money on, if that's what you want to do. Just don't take the first offer.
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Hello. When I first saw this picture on your link, my first thought was that it looked liked a Landseer. I did a copy of one of his last year with a couple of little girls in an interior playing with rabbits and dogs and this one is of similar style. The small black and white photo in the painting could be Landseer too in his later years. I had a look at the signature. There are similarities I think, but could be entirely wrong. It would certainly be worth checking out.
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That signature is not Landseer, that is a certainty, It is Lamley. I don't usually go to this trouble, but as it's dragging on I have looked on Artprice to which I subscribe, and nothing listed.
I regularly attend Brettells fine art auctions in Newport. These type of paintings appear frequently, and if not by a recognised listed artist, generally have a price guide of £40- 60.
Sylvia's suggestion is the logical way to go.
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Quite agree Alan - whatever it is, it ain't a Landseer: name could be Lamley, Lansley, perhaps even Lawley, but none of my references books link to an artist of that name. If it's an actual oil painting as opposed to a print, which it may well be, I think I'd just take it as being a reasonable Victorian or Edwardian painting for which there's always a market, if not a very generous one. I'm never sure what people really want when they post old paintings here - if it's a painting, it'll be worth a few quid depending on quality and condition; if it's not by a well-known artist, it'll be worth £100 at most, on a good day: what this isn't is an old, neglected master-work and to be honest it doesn't look like one either.
Just buy the thing if you like it, put it up on your wall and enjoy it, but don't think it's going to transform your life into unimaginable riches (if that's the plan, and I realize it may not be) because it would be a miracle if it did: and I really don't think miracles happen to most of us.
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Lumley, Lamly, Zumly, Zamly - who knows? No one here including me, that's for sure.... I'm afraid you've reached the veriest outreaches of our collective wisdom here, Gaetan: if you like your painting, I'm not going to disparage it, but I think you're going to have to accept that it's not by an artist whose work achieved either fame or value; and that's true of 99% of pictures you can expect to pick up in antique shops and auction houses - every now and then, that magic 1% crops up: but this isn't it.
You may well not be interested in the value anyway, in which case - just enjoy it: perhaps one day someone will recognize the artist, but I think you're likely to have a long wait. Sorry.