Interestingly Ruskin had some pupils whom he encouraged to make very close copies of Turner's watercolours. He wrote of Rochester On The Medway...
The one marked Callow is a copy of this Turner watercolour, rather than of the oil sketch : very exact copied in some areas, especially the water,...
More here: "Artist and illustrator on the staff of The Argus in the 1930s and 1940s." Studied in Paris in the 1950s....
Not, alas, a signature but "I of Wight".
It took me a while to recognise the subject matter in the second one (even though it's literally written there...) beyond the blur of colours....
Though the only person of that name I can find is a confectioner. Part of a Victorian shop sign maybe?...
Presumably "DS Beech" is the Carmel gallery owner and artist Dorothy Stock Beech.
I think Gionet is right; interestingly a name though of French origin, hardly found outside Canada.
One clue that these are facsimiles is that the image, and the associated "plate tone" doesn't go all the way to the plate mark.
It's a copy of Turner's 1834 painting: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O16425/st-michaels-mount-cornwall-oil-painting-turner-joseph-mallord/ I...
It seems the "History of the World" is compiled from earlier books, including that "History of Ireland"...
It is Ira W Schwartz: look at the strange impasto monogram above the signature. Its the same as on these paintings by Schwartz from the 1970s:...
If both signatures are cut off at the left hand side, as the second one looks to be, the name could be "van Bergen".
"Trelade" is actually an anagram of "Delatre", the printer with whom Gen Paul worked.
We've been here before, with another of Gen Paul's pseudonyms: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/need-help-i-d-on-signature.33302/
The level of detail given about Paul Trelade, and this 1930 reference makes me think this is the correct reading of the signature....
But according to this the signature is actually "Paul Trelade", a pseudonym of Gen [Eugene] Paul....
More here: https://filmmakermagazine.com/112116-theaters-distribution-and-craziness-ira-deutchman-on-searching-for-mr-rugoff/ The director of the...
The older Thomas Hill Laidlaw, described in the censuses as a painter, meaning a house painter rather than an artist (though the two are by no...
That is a different person to Thomas Hill Laidlaw. The Sydney-based artist is mentioned in an article about ship paintings on JSTOR. However none...
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