Winter in the Country

Saw someone selling this on FB not sure if it’s an original or not. Very new into art and having a hard time identifying items. I asked if it was a print and they said it was a painting. Looks like George Durrie is the original artist but why would it be signed J W Roy and does anyone know what the value would be? Thank you!

 

an artist copying anothers work..????

the value is indeterminate ..

 

JW Roy made a copy of a George Durrie? This looks like a paint by number version of a Durrie. I'm not an art critic or valuer, but in my eyes the value would be in the frame.

 

My first thought was paint by number as well. Sometimes you can tell because the painter would have painted all the white spots and then the brown ...

 

Well, if it's a painting, I don't see ANY brush strokes, even on 4X enlargement!!! BUT, that being said, what I'm seeing here IS a copy of an image off another website, so who knows!!!

 

Looks like this is the original painting by Durrie. It is in the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The first one on this page.
https://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/...the-painting/about-the-artist/portfolio-page/

 

(I think it might actually be the sixth one down in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.)

Winter in the Country: A Cold Morning, 1861

Garrison's seems a naive version to my eye.

 

the value just tanked !

 

1861. That's quite early.

Debora

 

hey....the value just rose!!!

 

Yes, you are correct. Good eye!

 

I used to volunteer twice a month in the building next to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond where apparently the original of this painting is housed. I'd sometimes wander over to the Art Museum to eat in their cafeteria overlooking a garden with a small Chihuly installation among other things. Soft spot in my heart for the place though I didn't often have time to roam the exhibits

 

You had me at Chihuly installation. My niece wants to major in art in college and loves blowing glass.

 

It really is quite lovely to look across the little moat to the brilliant red glass reeds and sculpture garden beyond with the like of Henry Moore.

Sorry to take this thread so far off track.