EXPENSIVE (FOR ME) LARGE NUDE PAINTING - HELP w/ARTIST'S NAME?

Does the clothing-optional lady resemble Rita Heyworth?

 

Do you have a picture of the back of the nude painting?

 

I think the date on the nude is 43 and I would have put the frame in the fifties, so it works for me.

 

Back of painting

 

Her fingers look like a claw and her ear like an elfs. Basically everything above the neck just doesn't look right to me.

 

My ears are similar in shape, & I have long thought that with just a little tuck at the top I wouldn't look out of place in Rivendell.

 

I took the painting out of the frame (having to scrape away the putty? holding it - and while I don't think it's as clear hear; I could see small brush strokes over the edge of the stone(?) tile(? what is it painted on called?)

 

So it is a painting right?

 

It is probably painted on porcelain. Porcelain portrait miniatures are abundant.

 

Is there anything on the back? Limoges was the source for many miniatures on porcelain.

 

No, nothing on back; you can see the back in first set of pictures

 

I would not put too much effort into the Savonarola. It is really a weird, effeminate copy of the Fra Bartolomeo. There is nothing special about its being hand painted, many are. And, if you plan to sell, I'm not sure there is much interest in Savonarola anymore.

 

This is the same type of thing, except frame looks older:



SUPERB, ANTIQUE GEORGIAN MINIATURE PORTRAIT PAINTING ON PORCELAIN / WOOD FRAME

http://www.ebay.com/itm/362585119267

 

"Fra Bartolomeo, who entered the Dominican order, probably painted this portrait of Savonarola while the latter was still alive."......from Bronwen's link.....

 

The nude lady looks so familiar because she looks like a gazillion of painted ladies which circulated in the late forties, fifties. They hung on calendars, product advertising, trading cards (remember them?)

She also looks a tad like Piper Laurie during her salad days. Before someone managed to get past her face and body to discover that she is a Marvelous actress!

 

I gave it a try, but the name ("e"? March/Harch) is not quickly settled.

And then I started wondering... "wait, what... what is that little squiggle after 'March' oh, I bet it's a '5' and this was painted in May '43... wait wait, what if it was painted March 5, 1943... oh crap... is 'March' even the name? of course it is, don't be ridic... I dunno."

Given that "March" as a surname is a mess for research, it was pretty much a fool's errand to start with, but at this turn, I gave up.

 

I think your

Georgian? Seller in England, surrounded by antiques. Surely she would know better? (Or chooses not to?)

Debora

 

Thanks anyway jivvy - 1 of very few you didn't find!

 

Is the small painting on porcelain? Or a molded plaster mixture? I cannot tell from the back?

 

feels like porcelain on front