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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gatoblanconz, post: 12698158, member: 14927&quot;]I got this painting on Facebook marketplace and I researched it using a few different AI tools and my own research </p><p>I thought it was quite interesting to find out about the painter and verify who they were.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Painting</p><p><br /></p><p>A romantic bust-length portrait of a young woman with long flowing auburn hair, bare shoulders, cream lace wrap, and red velvet drape against a dark background. Oil on prepared artist&#039;s board, in its original, restored gilt frame. Signed and dated on the front &quot;R Oct 1909&quot; (lower right area), with full inscriptions on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Original Inspiration: Angelo Asti</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>The composition is based on the work of Angelo Asti (1847-1903), a French painter of Italian descent who worked in Paris.<br /> <br /> </li> <li>Asti was famous for his romanticised, idealised portraits of beautiful women featuring dramatic flowing hair and rich fabrics.<br /> <br /> </li> <li>His work was massively popular in early commercial reproduction: postcards, prints, calendars, tins, and advertising. His imagery fed directly into the emerging &quot;pin-up&quot; tradition of the early 20th century.<br /> <br /> </li> <li>Asti died in 1903, six years before this painting was made, so the copy was almost certainly worked from a print or postcard reproduction.<br /> <br /> </li> <li>The particular work is ‘Long Haired Lady in Red’ <br /> <br /> </li> <li><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXf1cTrgThmk0AibK3nr9fSllbKKJsuhTe0DZ24qMNw72mmIIeBs-OP6Wpi94ttXj2waswPK4FAg0HL4ZyZ5tJUBrLP-75lBUDN1bS8_zLE0Az1bR2C4GYkjz8ZZInnAu10va1beyx6wNWOJofNa4XFDHN8=s2048?key=i6rnLkT4zMtAR-jDFhs3Fw" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><br /> <br /> </li> <li><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeJ7Bj6qAr4bEkDT2QYKGY9j9ahXtRoqnUM62yo8ZdlmbOIr1ESk6CBolcSV7Dn5pTu6my8LSaX9VmIQkeGLPvNqR4zZczgNnw-2W29xpFV1jlXi4pjqaAaYf5dNtmIndgh7CqGWdXOx0iLLCWhyO8qUD4=s2048?key=i6rnLkT4zMtAR-jDFhs3Fw" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><br /> </li> </ul><p>The Artist: Winifred Nelly Rowe</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>The painting is a copy after Asti, made by a young Australian amateur/student artist.<br /> <br /> </li> <li>The handwritten inscription on the back states explicitly: &quot;Face by Asti, Drawn &amp; Painted by Winifred Nelly Rowe, On the Beuro, September 1909.&quot;<br /> <br /> </li> <li>The work is dated twice: &quot;September 1909&quot; on the back and the front signature &quot;R Oct 1909,&quot; suggesting she began it in September and finished/signed it in October.<br /> <br /> </li> <li>Her address is written on the back: &quot;Winifred Nelly Rowe, Woodstocke St., Botany, Sydney.&quot; No house number is given, which was common practice at the time.<br /> <br /> </li> <li>Woodstock Street is a street that still exists in Botany. <br /> <br /> </li> <li>&quot;Miss Rowe&quot; is also written separately near the frame edge, likely a class or teacher&#039;s label.<br /> <br /> </li> <li>A 1940 newspaper funeral notice records Miss Winifred Rowe attending her grandmother Elizabeth Rowe’s funeral in Darlinghurst for a burial in Botany. indicating she remained in the local community, still under her maiden name, some three decades later.<br /> </li> </ul><p><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfaCVV9tpUzgQ7t0ZjcIosmmMbHQtKbbKptvos669Waea0HEYX6hesECrrK-FRIYbpf1LHW8c5Wi40Yxt1lHGjg9NsQfvRKmnZnjoci9TbqhAa46e3n4E_tpv68Qls-VrcuiRk49zEJTc0dl8EgbnLk928=s2048?key=i6rnLkT4zMtAR-jDFhs3Fw" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Supplier: W.C. Penfold &amp; Co.</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>The faded commercial stamp on the back reads &quot;Prepared Students Academy Boards, W.C. Penfold &amp; Co., 183 Pitt Street, Sydney N.S.W.&quot;<br /> <br /> </li> <li>W.C. Penfold &amp; Co. was one of Sydney&#039;s oldest and most prominent stationers and printers, tracing its origins to William Moffitt&#039;s business established in 1830.<br /> <br /> </li> <li>Penfold&#039;s was a major supplier of artists&#039; materials to the Sydney public in this era, selling Winsor &amp; Newton oil colours, hog hair brushes, sketchbooks, and prepared canvas and boards.<br /> </li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]556183[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]556184[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]556185[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]556186[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]556187[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]556188[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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