Featured Signature help

This painting is dirty but the signature is almost legible... W.H. Robinson?? Roh...???

I'd love to get it ID'd before I decide what to do next with it.

Any help is greatly appreciated.



Apprx 16" x 20". Found in a thrift store in Portland Oregon. Hoping that it's an antique California painting, but we'll see.

 

With that boat I highly doubt California. I see K. H. Rominger ?

 

If that is the prow of a small boat in the foreground, it does not look like a vessel that would be in California. Nor does the thatched structure on the little island.

 

You know, I wasn't sure what the fore-grounded structure was... a fence? But a boat prow makes more sense.

Thanks for the comments.

 

Maybe a long shot, but the prow looks similar to small boats used in Burma/Myanmar -

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-m...ef1e8a1098b4aa67e1e3eb634fd3e285&searchtype=0


https://www.flickr.com/photos/39536136@N08/35711418736/

The thatched structure also looks similar to traditional farm buildings in Burma -

https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-a...1affdcb1ddbea317c72abbd3ba12e48a&searchtype=0

And the artist's name could be a version of Rohingya, which is the name of a Muslim minority in Burma.

 

Wow-- that'd be really interesting! Thanks for the 'sleuthing.'

There's a second, similarly-colored post, further right along the bottom of the picture.

 

Looks like K. H. Rohmer

 

Nice piece Pot-painter with a sure hand. For your sake,I hope it turns out to be a California Impressionist who visited Burma !

 

These may not help, but at least you can see the signature a bit easier...... and I too think it at least starts with "W. H"



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Thanks @Aquitaine! I so appreciate it!

I'll keep a-looking...

 

Rohmeyer?

 

Ya know, people's knowledge on here blows me away sometimes. Nice painting. Love the way they've captured the reflections on the water. I love a good boaty pic. Sorry, got no idea on the signature.

 

Wilhelm Heinrich rohmeyer?

From find art info

 

I agree, the signature looks like W.H. Rohmeyer and it looks like his technique.
Besides, the light and landscape look very northern European to me. Rohmeyer lived in northern Germany, near Hamburg.
The hut could be one for duck hunting. What looks like a Burmese prow looks like a mooring pole to me.

This Rohmeyer painting has the same technique and the same oddly tilted horizon (neurological issue?):


https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Heinrich_Rohmeyer

 

How lucky it's still in its period frame. Suits it.

Debora

 

A painting of a similar structure by the artist. Titled 'Fischerhude. Bootshaus an der Wümme' or 'Fischerhude. Boathouse on the Wümme.'



Debora

 

And another. 'Bootsshuppen an der Wümme.'



Debora

 

You guys are amazing!!! Thank you so much for the help!

 

Thanks @Chinoiserie!

 

You're so right-- thank you for the analysis.