Featured Welsh Folk Art painting

Hi Folks

A cool folk art/ naive style painting i picked up today

the stamp on the back leads to a few others, hoping it might lead to an artist

i'm guessing the stamp is of the owner of the painting ?,,,or paintings?

guessing at early 20th

any help appreciated

 

Looks like he’s the Framer and supplier of Artists paints/supplies.

 

Aha, that makes way more sense, thanks House

 

I like it! Sure looks like it has some age. Wouldn't mind going fishing in that river, back then.

 

It might just be grasses but you might want to do a look to see if there might be a signature, for example, on the lower left. (I was messing with the colors to see what it looked like)

 

Nice find Chas-Got the antique charm to it.Also SIS supplied a intriguing image-Country Chic mate.

 

blimey thanks sis (the eyes on you )

definitely a signature right on that bottom edge

 

I like the painting! I bet it would be spectacular after a good cleaning!
Nice Find!

 

Can hardly wait to see the sig (and date ?) once out of the frame.
SIS,great manip of that pic-looks like you ran it thru some exotic ultraviolet multi-spectography machine... but you did it all on yr widdy computer-Well done !

 

thanks Bdiggy (hope that doesn't sound too close to that naughty Pdiddy)

hadn't thought about cleaning it,,,,but a difference that would make (theres a small canvas hole/worn area in the top right so gotta be a bit careful

 

yeah think it will have to come out to get anything definitive......and even then .....

i find theres usually quite a fine line with these naive folk types, but liked this.....

especially the big tree and the play of shadow in the water

......and the sheep across the river

"thats supposed to be sheep "

......yes mate.....(i think so anyway)

 

from what i can see....think maybe......R Gabriel ?

 

or maybe R.C somethingortother

 

Charming naive painting, charlie. Love the colours too, and as Bdigger said, I'm sure it'll be spectacular after cleaning, the colours will pop.

Looks like the man in the back of the pirogue-like boat is wearing one of those fishermen caps you usually see in southern Europe. So I had to check if they were worn in Wales as well, and found this wonderful photograph of a Welsh fisherman having a rest in his very Welsh coracle:



So yes, Welsh fisherman wore them too.

The woman is wearing a traditional bonnet. I am glad she is wearing genuine dress, not the fake Welsh dress invented by lady Llanover (what was she thinking!).

I think the costumes, as well as the style of the signature, place your painting in the 19th century.

 

wonderful help, thanks Aj

Fisherman or movie star ? (to a certain extent) (guess its all that rowing/work)

i was beginning to worry (because it being wales n all) that it was from the 1980s and just 2 ladies being shuttled across to watch emmerdale Farm

so glad its got some good age

 

He certainly thinks he's the man. It is a great photo, pretty unusual for the period.

Reception is always better on the other side of the river.

 

its actually quite a bit more colourful than the pics show (taken late at night) so will try and get a better shot today (and of sig)

 

yeah he's more Mackenzie crook or old man steptoe in the face

but he also doubled as a torso model (interesting fact)