HELP w/AGE & MAKER OF LARGE ANTIQUE NAUTICAL PAINTING FOUND TODAY

Yeah it's something like that. You can order them from different websites. They are called burlap canvas paintings. Here is a picture of one for example. Just go on google and type in "burlap canvas paintings"

 

It's some type of technique done by a machine.

 

Yes those are the Chinese fakes, very easy to spot and nothing to do with this piece.

 

Yeah, well maybe this isn't as old as first thought and maybe it hasn't been relined and that bare canvas is the original surface ..still, it's a pretty competent painting ...YES, a painting ...not a print or reproduction and certainly not a new thing - that oxidized stretcher, if original, will take it back quite a few years.

 

pure white. Not old. It is done by some machinery. Go get a second opinion but I am not changing mine.

 

@rink28 gives good clues. A human-made painting won't come to a perfectly straight stop, like that, plus the white...

And if depending on seeing dots to weed out fakes, that's not foolproof, these days.

Depending on who's explaining,
giclée prints have either no dots or extremely fine dots that can be blurred by multiple passes.

Not wanting to start a debate (about giclée printing)

I can't tell if it's the resolution, but the whiskered edges on the water spray look a bit pixelated.



The point is, if you keep looking you'll start to catch something mechanical about it.

Thanks for the accent mark, @Any Jewelry

 

white = gesso undercoat/foundation

 

Lots of humans tape their canvases, so yes, you do end up with perfectly straight edges.

Though not usually on the front of the painting.

The white could easily be primer or underpainting.

I do wonder if something new was painted over an old canvas and then a gallon of thick varnish was put on it.

I don't know. I'm 99% certain this not a giclee, but I don't know what it is. I suspect the stretcher bars are about as original to the piece as the frame.

My number one red flag is still the style of the painting.

And that I'm pretty sure a straight edge was used for a goodly portion of the rigging lines.

 

the crackling looks forced....

 

Just ticking off from the features to look for in printed art.

I know it could have been taped and people have known how to draw and paint straight lines for a while, now

So, I'm backing away from that statement , but not necessarily from the clue

Is there no magnifiing glass emoji??

 

I would be interested in what a blacklight shows.

Maybe nothing, maybe a secret map.

 

It's not true craquelure, just the result of a heavy gesso paint layer moving over a slack flexing canvas.

 

Blacklight only shows repairs and few people can interpret blacklight results correctly unless the offending area is obvious.

BTW I have done restorations that cannot be detected with blacklight

 

So much for image search..... Google thinks this is visually similar.....

Bawhahahaha!!!!!!!

 

Arrrr

 

hey at least it got the water and boat right ..the gal however ....mmmmm...

 

The portrait in it is amazing.

 

The idea is that the acrylic surface will fluoresce white.