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Hi everyone,

I am thinking of selling this piece. It’s by a Dutch painter Jacob van Rossum. What would you say is a good price for such a painting?
Its an oil painting on canvas.
49x38cm without frame
75x62cm with frame.

 

I would never hang that in my home...... so I can't be of any help with a value.

Where and how will u look to sell this ?

That can influence the market ....

 

I think ebay. Haven’t done this before so I have no idea what to look out for.

 

I would take it along to a local Auction house who have picture sales. You can get their opinions/valuation.

 

I like your painting. I also like your question ‘Good price’ It’s such a ‘suitcase’ variable factor term.

 

i went to a locan guy he said somewhere between 80-400

 

I think that is fair, van Rossum was an excellent painter but the subject is not very attractive or imaginative.
These are the more usual van Rossum paintings, and auction estimates:

https://www.invaluable.com/artist/rossum-jacobus-willem-van-l9uddikbne/sold-at-auction-prices/?srsltid=AfmBOopmSS-3FGpE26ids9rrMg9HCar5B0djvyI7hG5VUjkEWMDIsB5x&Fine Art=Painting

In the link they put van Rossum du Chattel under van Rossum. Obviously a different (better known) painter, and different estimates.

For your "Portrait of a Dutch Farmer" I would start at €150, and go down if it doesn't sell.

 

If selling on ebay, be sure to factor in enough for packing and shipping. Safely packing a framed painting can be challenging.

 

Re: Books-shipping a delicate artwork's fairly complex.I'd be tempted to sell it locally where someone's house would be a more suitable environment decor-wise.
This piece prob won't start an international 'bidding-war' on Ebay or Sotheby's.

 

Yeah ur right, thank you. I will probably sell in on our national ebay so that someone can pick it up. I don’t want it to be damaged.

 

He'd be a tough sale here unless priced low enough for a dealer to buy it and hold onto it. I'd keep him home too.

 

...Even if it isn't behind glass. If it is, seek professional packing an' shipping help.

 

Professional packaging for framed art is a wooden crate. For personal sale of smaller works I'd do cardboard corners, cardboard sheet on front and back, into a cardboard box (with packing material in any additional crevices created from the frame shape), then into a second cardboard box with packing material in-between. Finding frame-shaped boxes is tough so cutting down and making a box to fit is normal.

 

i do that, but try and get a v shape filled with newspaper on the edges for shock damage

 

V-shape....you mean corners?


(Only for reference. I wouldn't buy them...you can just cut a square of cardboard and put a slit from middle to a corner.)

 

there are special boxes for framed art..
https://scotthutchison.com/how-to/shipping-art-in-a-box/


https://www.uline.ca/Product/Detail...MI8seD5PjWjAMVbzcIBR27JghjEAQYBCABEgKIGvD_BwE

 

nah i usually do a double box rap, but make sure the edges are at an angle do absorb any possible knocks

i must have 30 or so massive frames in surplus that i've had to make paintings smaller just because of postage costs

 

I’d try Facebook marketplace first. People who do not really know how to access original artwork but who like the idea of it will sometimes buy it on a whim on fb. Shipping charges are high on eBay and people like go avoid those. Plus it’s expensive for you to ship and tricky to pack. FB just easier. Resellers will look the artist up and see some good prices and may buy it too. I have a lot of people buy original artwork in the $75-200 or so range from me on FB. Sometimes more for sure. Worth trying there for a week or three before going to eBay. Leave some room in the price for people to make an offer. It’s the best way to get rid of items you don’t want to ship imo.

 

Or try the Dutch Marktplaats site, and tick the "ophalen" box.