Help determining age and possibly Artist of bird painting?

26” x 12”
Oil on canvas, some damage to picture

 

Kingfishers I'd think. Going to be near impossible to identify artist.

Debora

 

Thanks, I was thinking maybe an unknown artist who was styling their paintings after naturalists

 

Ah, your painting has my favorite ADS stretcher keys! Those should date it from between about 1884 and 1917. Connecticut Transforms Aaron Draper Shattuck - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

Your painting is most probably of American origin.

P.S. I suspect that the colors under the grime layer are much more vibrant.

 

My first thought, of course, was that it was copied from an Audubon print but the proportions aren't correct.

Debora

 

Thanks!

 

Nice painting and nice frame. If you sell it, you should do well. I'd have to keep it, myself!

 

It could use a cleaning. It looks like it was previously owned by a smoker.

Debora