It is, of course, completely possible there is no record of this painter on the Internet. We're such a bunch of obsessives.
I thought 'Perey' was unlikely to be the name of anyone, but found record of an M. Perey who did a painting of a vase with white flowers:...
Is this mark part of the signature? [ATTACH]
All guesses of course, so not willing to commit to this. :hilarious:[ATTACH] Not guesses, speculation. It's often the way we arrive at correct...
Maybe painter is a doctor. :joyful:
How come? It is ambiguous & makes it more difficult to make sense of what follows, but strokes are very strong & do not appear to be part of the...
I see 1937 more than 1931, but I can also see it as 1957.
[ATTACH] The better I can see it, the less I understand it. Last letters look like o[o?]ker.
Doesn't help with the signature, but will comment that framer's label on the back dates to time before zip codes, so possible it is original to...
My gut also says although they seem routinely to be identified as 18th century, many are probably repro....
My gut says new too, maybe because my gut is very cautious. The design is old: https://www.skinnerinc.com/search?s=Ratchet
I see the first word as ending in M & the R either a middle initial or start of the surname. But that first letter does look a lot like a W;...
Not that I've acted rationally on this, but some years ago, when I began to think about selling off some stuff, I thought to myself: You have...
Separate names with a comma.
