Featured Drunk painted by a drunk ?

Saw this 12" tall painting yesterday and got a big kick out of it. It's a raucous lively piece and I get the feeling the artist painted this for a pint-like the spontaneity of the work-wonder if it hung on the wall of a pub somewhere a century ago (canvas dates to abt 1900) ?
Not the most well-painted piece I've ever seen,but it sure has a lot of enthusiasm to it !
Really like it,but at $250 ???

 

He certainly had fun painting it.
That smock looks very English, as does the hat.

Maybe for $150?

 

Agree AJ-Really fun genre piece but at $250 seems a bit dear ?

 

It's a fun painting - clay pipe and a pint and a happy face, but I wouldn't pay that much unless I had a bar to hang him in.

 

Exactly Ruth-The only thing I'm missin' is the Grade 1 Listed million pound pub and I don't have a 'Man Crypt' !
PS-If I had a pub that could be a tax write-off ?

 

I'm surprised the tankard hasn't got a brewery name prominently displayed...It looks to be well done commercial art; whether it is or isn't, I like it, too!

 

Painting makes me smile. He certainly looks content,like he’s got everything he ever needed. But it’s way too much green (bar or not)

 

I wondered whether the clay pipe was meant to make him a caricature of an Irishman? Poking about, I see there is a genre of Irishmen drinking, sometimes Guinness promotional pieces.

 

My point exactly...

 

The title seems to be Sinnington Rambler.
Oh-Kay!

 

Mudlarks are forever fishing those pipes out of the mud on the Thames embankments. I think they were everywhere.

 

i know that full pint feeling !

 

The first step in admitting you're an alcoholic:


.....paint a picture of another one LOL

 

i think that feeling is actually a reaction to........" you don't have to go yet john, you've still got one in "

 

That's very cool. It's a bit much at $250. But, if the seller has it for a while, offer $100, mentioning the few defects. They might counter with $150, and it's your's.