Featured DID I FIND AN ORIGINAL JOHN EMMS PAINTING AT THRIFT STORE TODAY??!!

I found this at a local thrift store today. I actually passed on it at first! I was 1st in line & went through the paintings first; as I flipped through them I tapped this one when I came to it & went on - I thought it was a print on cardboard.
Then a little while later a friend of mine who goes around looking for cool things & selling them to the dealers there who didn't get it first. When he came up & showed it to me I told him I'd already looked at it & it was a print on board, but then he said "No Charlie it's a painting; look" and handed me his magnifying glass - I looked & it was a painting!!

I asked him what he wanted for it & he said $50; iy was a 1891 painting! He'd never asked for more than $20- $25 for something & after some haggling I gave him $30 for it (plus the $9.99 I paid the store)

Can someone tell me that it IS a painting? I could feel some ridges but it's mostly smooth - because of it's age? Did he paint on board? Or could there be a canvas that's stuck to board after so many years?

Any help, info, thoughts would be appreciated - I'm as nervous/excited as a cat on a porch full of rocking chairs!

Thanks guys!

 

PS - The frame says Made in Sweden; in case that helps anything?
Thanks again

 

The most helpful thing for us in trying to help you is the label on the back and, in both photographs, it's out of focus.

Debora

 

Well, this appears to be your artist. Whether a painting or not, dunno.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Emms_(artist)

Debora

 

Sorry Debra - here is the label:

 

Looks like a painting. And style/signature looks right. Funny thing to come out of Jackson Heights but Studio Art Shop appears to have done some quality framing. And artist prolific. Think you'll want to send photographs to a auction house. William Doyle did a dog auction several years back; they might be a good resource.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/17/garden/the-market-for-dog-paintings-refuses-to-play-dead.html

Debora

 

Thank you Debra - guess I'm going to have to give my friend some more $ !!
Take a look at the other 2 things I got from him that I posted; really unusual things - just like I like!

 

It would be wonderful if it turns out to be an original.

However, I'm a bit skeptical for two reasons: First the label on the back almost (to me) indicates that it is/was a reproduction (they way they mention "antique paintings 18th and 19th century"). Second concern is how it almost appears that someone was painting 'between the lines' - I'm focusing on the white line that runs from the underside of the tail around the upper butt area and on the top of the head/down the back of the neck.

 

I think you find really interesting items Journey. This one is looking pretty good to me but you need to see the back.
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Can’t load the pic of one that was sold at Sotheby’s, it’s another Beagle or Harrier as yours called Gabriel.
Good luck, hope it’s an original oil.

 

I think it was painted on the board you see in back?

 

You'll want to check if all his work was oil on canvas or not.

Debora

 

Good point Debora. So far I've only found his works on canvas.

 

There do seem to be examples on board.

https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Fox-Hounds-by-the-Fireside/E21B6F070776405B

http://www.hamsheregallery.co.uk/stock.php?id=396

And oil on canvas laid on board https://fineart.ha.com/itm/fine-art...nches-165-x-152-cm-signed-lowe/a/5035-79045.s

 

Kronos: if you read the description on your 3rd link it says it is signed "Jms. Emms". John Emms appears to always sign his "Jno Emms".

 

They show the signature in one of the pictures. Looks like maybe they read/interpreted it wrong.

 

If this is Jackson Heights, Queens, in NYC my uncle lived there for a long time. It's not far from where my mother lived, too, and where my sister lives now.

Pure geographical coincidence, I'm sure, but my uncle and mother were both artists, as was my uncle's friend who also lived in Jackson Heights.

 

It looks like a painting to me and although I don't have any opinion on the authenticity it looks like a nice painting.