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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 643046, member: 10944&quot;]So I recently purchased a painting by Italian artist E. Bianchini at an estate sale. The estate was a once elegant, large Victorian home in a now run down neighborhood in Boston. It’s was FILLED with good antiques. it had not been lived in for over fifteen years at time of sale. I believe a reverend owned it as there were a few monogrammed leather bags and brief cases with a reverends name on them. I found a painting in a stack of otherwise unremarkable damaged framed prints. It was in great condition and looked good. Signed, original, oil painting by the looks of it. I pulled my phone out and did some quick research. The artist has plenty of recorded sales at auction. Most were $200-$500. Painting was tagged at $150. I knew I could get it for less. I looked at a few more auction records and figured it was a safe bet at the $100 I had negotiated. With sale prices mostly $200-$500 and a not very well known name I didn’t even consider the fact that it may not be authentic. The frame, the signature, the title hand printed on back all looked consistent with his works. The signature was on the opposite side of the painting of most of his other works but I figured that was just the artists choice for this work. I made the purchase and brought it home quite content. A week or so later I decided to google the actual place the artist had painted. Going down the worm hole of google images I ended up finding an image of my painting. It had sold at auction in 2012 I think it was. Having been told the house had not been lived in for over fifteen years this was naturally concerning. I then found another “version” of the painting being sold on eBay for $4,500. Same title, same scene, same artists signature on both paintings. There are small differences in the actual painting itself. So I was really upset and figured I was out $100 on a fake. It did occur to me though that there was a small possibility that an artist will paint multiple copies of the same location/scene. This seems unlikely but does it happen? Is this actually an original painting? Is it an outright forgery? Is it a “tribute” type situation? I know many of the masters started out by “copying” works of older well known painters. I’m hoping someone here can shed some light on what I have here. First two photos are my painting. I’ll post photos of others found online in comment.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i68.tinypic.com/14awhag.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i68.tinypic.com/1hzhit.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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