Featured Questions on a very old watercolor

Hi Board,
Cleaning out my art collection and I'm ready to send this off to a new home. Could you help me identify the artist? Many years ago I was able to locate a name that seemed attributable but I have lost all information. I believe I found this to be a European artist and the scene was from a valley in Italy

Thanks for sharing your knowledge

 

How do you read the signature? "W.H. Earl?"

Debora

 

Here's another of his works.

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/1825885_168-watercolor-signed-w-h-earl

Debora

 

And another.

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/...0042/lot-37d66f93-05c8-4dda-933d-a8820114ea81

Debora

 

And one of these. Described as "English" and 19th century.

https://www.proxibid.com/Fine-Art-R...OLORS-ONE-BY-W-H-EARL/lotInformation/28170749

Debora

 

of all the paintings on this site that i know nothing about.....this is not one of them...
Cuz I got one........and we've talked about it !!!

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/w-h-earp-biritish-watercolor-painting.26429/

not mine but clear siggy...



https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/72356990_earp-william-henry-watercolor-landscape

 

And here's another. He, whoever he was, must have been prolific.

Debora

 

This are identified as "Edwardian."

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-us/...0609/lot-d6e290bd-cbcb-42c9-ac1c-a658016b0875

Debora

 

posted by Fig........

The Biography and Genealogy Master Index, an online index to which my library subscribes, has one listing for W. H. Earp. He appears in the following book, which unfortunately I do not have access to:

Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Volume I. By Grant M. Waters. Eastbourne, England: Eastbourne Fine Art Publications, 1975.

So it seems more likely to be Earp from that perspective.

 

Thanks So much everyone

 

From the 1901 Journal of the Bath and West Of England Society. Which includes a lot more information about agriculture than art.

Link to the relevant Journal: https://books.google.com/books?id=6...tist&pg=PR76#v=onepage&q="w. h. earp"&f=false

About the "Society" (from Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Bath_and_West_of_England_Society
"The society was then renamed in 1869 as the 'Bath and West of England Society and Southern Counties Association for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce' to reflect its influence in areas outside the vicinity of the city, and further name changes occurring in the 1890s finished with the 'Bath and West and Southern Counties Society'."

 

From 1881 England Census:

Name: William H. Earp
Age: 27
Estimated birth year: abt 1854
Relationship to Head: Son
Father: George Earp
Mother: Ann Earp
Gender: Male
Where born: Brighton, Sussex, England
Civil Parish: Brighton
County/Island: Sussex
Country: England
Street address: 73 Park Road West
Marital status: Widower
Occupation: Artist In Painting
Registration district: Brighton
Sub registration district: St Peter
ED, institution, or vessel: 20
Neighbors:
Piece: 1082
Folio: 124
Page Number: 35

 

Oh, and his dad, George, was a "Professor of Drawing"

 

I will offer that internet art references list his birth in the 1830s. I'm simply not finding anyone that matches that, but I could be missing something.

 

phew, this family. There are way too many painting Earps to sort this mess in an afternoon.

But nobody I'm looking at was born in the 1830s.

 

William Henry Earp's paternal uncle: Henry Earp, 1831 - 1914 (also a painter, they were ALL landscape painters).

 

Willian Henry Earp (1833-?)
i found this..........on the other thread.....with a painting but no back up...

 

One person on the internet conflated two artists: William Henry Earp (b. 1854) and his uncle Henry Earp (b. 1831).

Then everyone else on the internet copied the information.

There are more painting Earps (there may even be more painting Henrys), but I'm not sure that any additional info will make a difference to anyone.