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Marco Polo

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Hello guys! I am looking for any information and potential value of this old painting. I would be grateful for any info or suggestions where to look. Thank you much! https://ibb.co/vs934Dg

Colin Berwick

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

Robert Jones, NAPA

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It was a link to an actual painting, but the file size was too big to be posted on the Forum.  Ibb is a safe enough site - but I have professional anti-virus software, so was emboldened to take a look.   It's a portrait of a mother with several children - probably mid-Victorian, painted by someone who was possibly a visiting, peripatetic painter: fine as a memento for a family, but once you'd said that, you'd said the lot.   I yearn for the day when someone posts a painting that really has been lost to time, and is of significant value - it could be that a recent post of a Ukrainian painter's work has considerable potential value, though; I should love to find out what happens to it.  

Alan Bickley

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That link opens to unrelated new topics, not art or a painting to appraise!

Alan Bickley

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I see it now, but it’s a massive file, and there’s other none art related advertising material with it also.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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I'm not getting the other material - all I get is this very dark picture, in a very dark room, but I know there is a huge amount of extraneous matter on ibb: probably easier to see the intended image on a desktop, but I don't know.... I don't have any other device, at the moment. You've seen it now, anyway - presumably concur with my view that it's not a great picture of any value?  

Alan Bickley

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Yes, I’m getting other material with it, lots of it! Thanks for sending it over, but I’m not overly excited by the subject matter of this painting! Others might be…

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Beverly Thompson

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please help to delete my comment. I do not want to cause any misunderstandings. thanks. 

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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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You can see information there if you know the name of the artist you're looking for, which he didn't.  The image to which he linked is long gone, but it wouldn't have featured on ANY site of valuable, interesting - or good - paintings. 

Alan Bickley

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I suspect that latest reply was a sales oriented post!