Any help please

I inherited this oil painting from my grandmother 22 years ago and have no information about it other than it was in the family for many years the signature is very difficult to read and all I can make out are what appears to be R a hill or something similar. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

Welcome Rasmith.
Beautiful painting, could you post a photo of the signature?

 

I have tried to capture the signature but it is very faint I will have to try and get a clear shot. Thanks for the reply

 

That's about as good as it gets I'm afraid.

 

I enlarged your photograph and played with the color to see if I could bring out more of the signature.

 

Looks like I've come to the right people for help.

 

Can you post a closer picture of the back of the canvas where the Windsor Newton information is located? That may help with dating the painting.

 

I know it's 38 or 48 Rathbone place

 

Looks like it might be Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. A popular subject.

Debora

 

Thanks for all the replies it's a shame the signature isn't clear I'd love to know the artist

 

We call those "hills" where I come from.

Debora

 

Anyone know of any other way of enhancing the signature so as it can be identified thanks

 

Where are you from?????

Your post reminds me of a time several years ago while at the shop, waiting on an out-of-state couple, we engaged in conversation. They were visiting parts of NE.

Never having been out West at that time, I strongly recommended that they visit Vermont. It was Fall, and I think VT has the best foliage of all of the NE states.
And.....besides that......It has mountains....narrow winding country roads with mountains on one side and pastures on the other.

Those wonderful mountains with the flaming colors of Autumn. My favorite time of the year.


Years later when I got to visit Montana, Wyoming, Co. etc. (they were from one of those States), I discovered the real thing, and thought to myself that if they did get to visit VT they must have had a good chuckle over my description of a mountain.

If they did visit VT they must have thought the mountains there were nothing more than hills.

The West is absolutely beautiful, but I still love NE and our "hills".

 

Despite its lack of mountains, sure they enjoyed New England's "quaintness." And for Fall colors... try Japan.

Debora

 

Think stamp refers to the canvas ("Prepared by...") Winsor & Newton don't appear to have been framers at any point in their history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsor_&_Newton

http://www.winsornewton.com/na/

Debora