Featured Darby and joan oil on canvas painting

i found this today on my travels

it took getting an old lady up a step ladder to see it properly, but i think it was worth it.

large oil on canvas,

titled on back of canvas, darby and joan by (i think) g a groves

cant find anything about artist, but dont know if i've got the name right

any thoughts ?

 

That is so sweet, so much love and contentment.

 

yeah,i dont know if she looks that happy though! gonna have to take the frame apart to see sig and date properly

 

Learn something new everyday. Wasn't familiar with the phrase "Darby & Joan."

Debora

 

Last name looks more like Graves to me.

 

Her memory is getting worse, but he loves her just the same?

 

nah, shes definetly got the hump. he's done something wrong ok

 

Debora is giving us a hint. There is more to Darby & Joan than meets the eye.

 

alot more it seems, thanks

i still think it looks like he's just interrupting her knitting though !!

 

do you reckon its more amateur hand, i like it more now each time i see it

 

The lady looks like she is ready to read him the riot act.

 

You sure that's not Graves? It's beautiful, btw!

 

thanks, yeah it could be, ill open it up tomorrow to see front cig and date

 

The signature on the front DOES look more like G.A.Grove 19??

 

like it better without the frame

1948, or 1918 ?

 

1948.

 

look what i came across by accident
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124897924154?hash=item1d147f143a:g:DiYAAOSwnLNhPle0

a print of something very similar to my painting
but by a different groves
also the print is ever so slightly different
the poor old lady in the print looks more like albert steptoe

 

I think that's misidentified as being painted by Robert E. Groves.

Debora

 

Yeah I agree Deb, I've looked into his work and doesn't seem to be by him

The guy selling the print probably made out groves and then attributed it to the only groves he could find

The groves link between the two is interesting, but it's not identical so....

Gawd knows

 

As you can probably tell by me using words like attributed, I've been watching far too many fake or fortune episodes

Great show though if anyone hasn't seen it