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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blooey, post: 3289926, member: 12007&quot;]I&#039;m not familiar with his works but from a quick glance at google images it does seem he is a very accomplished painter and while your painting is rather bold, stylistically it doesn&#039;t really look like any of the other works I saw.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is the painting thinly painted or just in the area of the enlargement?</p><p><br /></p><p>You don&#039;t mention the size of your piece but one thing I did notice about his works was that the signature tended to be quite large in proportion to the painted area and that of course differs from yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the reverse, on my monitor, the canvas or linen support doesn&#039;t really ring true for his dates in my mind, even though there is a repair patch, the canvas looks later and the colour not what I would expect to see on a painting of the purported age.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not to say that it definitely <i>couldn&#039;t </i>be one of his pieces, but I think a tough row to hoe if you want to get the attribution to his hand to stick.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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