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I have this painting. The art is painted on a kitchen door. Can someone help me identify this painting? Best Regards kristin

 

The back. Can’t read the text..

 

Hi Kristin!

I can't read the signature, but am wondering if you live in Scandinavia as your name might suggest?

I like the painting.........
migrating reindeer in Lapland?

 

Kristin, could you please go back to 'edit' click on 'full image' for the photos?

Kristin is in Sweden.
No reindeer, looks more like red deer to me.
The signature looks like K. Tavich.

 

I think the signature might be W Tavish?

On the back it looks to me like:

No
Effects of the _ifle (rifle?)
J Siles (Sites?)
4 -------- Street
Aberdeen

 

I had to google Red deer..........

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/mammals/red-deer

I did look at Kristin's profile, but did not see location mentioned.

TY AJ!

 

There is a reference to J. Giles and a painting called "Effects of the Rifle" in the 1846 journal. I have no idea what relevance it has but I wonder if the artist Tavish/Tavich was copying a J Giles painting.

https://books.google.com/books?id=XDEFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA231&lpg=PA231&dq="effects+of+the+rifle"++painting&source=bl&ots=piJcrtfAX_&sig=ACfU3U1mg95E0Gle9oE_oyNM2oVlmVEj2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXlODN1obhAhWlo1kKHTXxC98Q6AEwBnoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q="effects of the rifle" painting&f=false

 

They are a European and Asian species. We have them here in the Netherlands as well, but we call them edelhert, which means noble deer.
You may know the painting 'Monarch of the Glen' by Landseer, that is a red stag.

I remembered from another thread. Maybe her introduction, or first thread?

 

One of the things I do on a piece with this kind of info is start looking at genealogical records (and yes, I do have access to worldwide records, not just USA)...

What's interesting here is that "Tavish" by itself appears to be quite rare. Rare enough, it's the kind of name I generally chalk up to typos. Now, we're talking about quick looks, not in depth research, so nothing in written in stone.

But "Mc" or "Mac" Tavish, that appears to be a real name. So I'm wondering if your artist might actually be Scottish.

 

Tavish is a Scottish Christian name, I think it is the same as Thomas. McTavish is son of Tavish, like McDonald is son of Donald.
Christian names can be used as surnames as well.

 

Yes, but historically, with the records I quickly accessed, there are only a handful of people using it as a surname. And the ones I glanced were all living in the USA. And we all know what happens to names when people move to the USA.

Anyway, it turns out that the artist @say_it_slowly found is Scottish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Giles_(painter)

 

Kristin lives in Europe, and red deer are a Eurasian species, so Scottish is more likely than North American.

 

Oh goodness, I wasn't suggesting the artist was North American. Just that the only plain "tavish" I found were North Americans and that liberties were taken with names over here.

No, I think the Scottish name with Giles also being Scottish... I wonder if Tavish wasn't apprentice/employee of Giles.

 

I suspect that is James Giles handwriting on the back.

The image below is taken from this auction: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/-1-c-FAE492B8ED

 

It is the same shape of view in the two pictures! Round corners on top, square at the bottom

It would be very interesting to know the size of yours, @Kristinpersson, to compare with the Giles one in the link above, whose mesurements are:
14.5"h x 29.5"w, overall (with frame): 24.5"h x 39.5"w

 

Im from sweden.

 

I'll look into it! be right back.

 

Is the writing on the back written on a separate piece of paper, as the one that @Jivvy found appears to be? I hope so, because otherwise would be confused as to how an original painting by Giles would have a signature of somebody else on it?

It was suggested by @say_it_slowly that the person whose sig is on the front was copying the painting by Giles. However, in that case the question still occurs to me... how is something that appears to be in Giles' handwriting attached to the back of a painting that might have been copied from his by somebody else?

Also, I don't necessarily think the last name is either Tavish or Tavich. The last two letters especially are very unclear to me. I'm also not sure that the copyist's name is important (if it is a copy).

 

The size is 64x35cm

 

The curved frame seems to be a "thing" for Giles -- in a variety of sizes.

The best bio I have found so far is here (and I think they would be good people to contact looking for additional info): http://www.johnbennettfinepaintings.co.uk/fine-art/d/prowling-lion-/150813#