Antique Photo of Artist in Studio

The man with the beard may be a picture restorer,not an artist so the picture subject is irrelevant, just a work in progress.

 

And those silk-shaded floor lamps are classic 1920s.

 

The easel has an artist's palette on it. This is a tool of the trade, making this an occupational, of sorts. The man is posed in the typical pose for the artist to strike in such a portrait. Because of the lack of a brush stand, makes it less unlikely that this is the artist's studio though I suppose that he could turn the easel around and use the table near the stained wall as a brush stand.

An artist and photographer could share the same work space.

Also the artist could set up his camera and then instruct anyone on how to open the lens or insert the glass negative, etc.

 

People have mentioned a program that will ID a painting online. Does anyone here remember it? If we could ID the painting, maybe we'd have more of a clue

 

Crop your photo to show only the painting. Go to Google Images and click on the little camera icon. Choose the browse option and upload your image. That will cause an image search. It seems to me that image searches are primarily color oriented, so you might find it, if it is out there as a monochrome print. It's a long shot.

 

You can also use Tineye -- and it would probably be good to try both:

https://www.tineye.com/

I agree that it's a long shot, though, in this case.

 

A bit of a long shot but it could be Lucien Pissarro -



When I isolated the man in your photo and googled just him this is one of the possibilities it came up with. He was an artist in the Camden Town Group and was the son of Camille Pissarro, impressionist artist. This portrait was taken about 1938.

more info here: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research...wn-group/portrait-of-lucien-pissarro-r1104579

 

There is a resemblance -- looking at information about his life, he mostly worked in England and France. And later in his life, mostly in England. So could these photos be British?

 

He does look like Lucien Pissaro. According to Wikipedia, "In 1894 he founded the Eragny Press[2]and with his wife printed illustrated books until 1914."

If this is a photo of Pissaro, perhaps the painting was used as an illustration in a book?

 

Thanks so much for all the help and ideas. I am going to search for the image of the painting and see what I find.

 

Here's a cropped picture of the painting with some contrast

 

I searched for the painting in both Google Image search and Tineye Reverse Image Search with no luck. Google came up with "No other sizes of this image found."

Tineye came up with "0 Results."
https://www.tineye.com/search/717b95316a8adff36df6b811c0bac69524770590/

BTW, I heartily agree on Napoleon. He was usually portrayed on a white horse. Hmmm.... He has lost his way to his destiny, Waterloo, and has finalllyyy stopped to ask directions as Josephine or his 2nd wife, Marie Louise, has been suggesting for the past hour.

--- Susan

 

try searching images with:
Painting Napoleon Windmill

 

Ha, ha, ha includes links of George Orwell's Animal Farm.
https://fperiod2013.wikispaces.com/Chapter+5
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/themes.html

Napoleon, the pig that assumes dictatorship based on Stalin, and Snowball's windmill. Snowball, another pig, based on Trotsky who challenged Napoleon for control of the Animal Farm. The windmill from an "allegorical point of view, ... represents the enormous modernization projects undertaken in Soviet Russia after the Russian Revolution."

--- Susan

 

I know, I read that. But I was surprised at how the windmill fits into Napoleon somehow. It must be a specific battle, but I couldn't figure out which one.

Anyway, the kids playing the old fashioned way, making a river from playing cards and a windmill from baby's blocks is what got my attention.