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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benbenny007, post: 217901, member: 4194&quot;]<img src="http://[URL=http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/benbenny007/media/20170302_163012_zpsf0us5mhu.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/benbenny007/20170302_163012_zpsf0us5mhu.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/benbenny007/20170302_163012_zpsf0us5mhu.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/benbenny007/20170304_215445ss_zpspztra5i4.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My new project.</p><p>Any knowledge about this artist?&nbsp; I first bought it without knowing it had a signature. The previous owner had no idea what it was and sold it to me as a painting with no signature. Only things which let me to buy than were the numbers and inscriptions on the stretcher which could point out that it was hanging somewhere in a gallery, museum or part of a collection. Looking at it now after all these years and can see very vaguely a signature which I missed the first time, its almost impossible to read.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe the signature is made out of two names and followed by a year. The first name probably reads Frank I&#039;m guessing, or does it read something else? (picture below with the paper snip is where the signature stops.)</p><p>The signature is partly covered with paint It appears as if the artist signed the canvas first before he started painting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Need to know the age of the canvas and frame to start research, is it 18th or 19th century? I&#039;m guessing its mid/late 18th century?? Its painted in a unusual style for a painting from that time period. It shows a village scene and two knitting women to the left.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does somebody has the artist books or knows this style.&nbsp; It was bought in the UK so it can be a English artist? but it could also be Dutch because of the name Frank.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know its all about details and I got plenty pictures below, maybe that will help.</p><p>Any help is welcome</p><p><br /></p><p>Extra added info: </p><p>I&#039;m not familiar with the used styles in during different centuries but I keep an open mind. Many are saying 20th century. It also looks modern to me but the stretcher, frame and canvas are confusing me because they are much older. Its a possibility that somebody used only old canvas to paint on. But why? And is there a record of a artist named frank who&#039;s known for this? </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I will add some extra info why I&#039;m thinking its older. </p><p><br /></p><p>When I bought it there were two paintings in offer, this painting and a other painting from the same artist with the signature starting with Frank. This was in a market and a lady was clearing out the house of her mother. There were many people and I could only buy one painting because somebody else snapped the other one away. I had a quick look at the other painting and it was of a man which looked like a peasant/farmer sitting in a dark painted kitchen. The kitchen looked to be in the old 18th/19th century style) and was also painted on a same very old canvas with some old restoration to the back. There were so many people looking for their treasure and I had to act quick to buy it and good only get a glimps of the other signature on the painting starting with Frank with unreadable surname. This means that the other painting and this one were from the same artist. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/benbenny007/20170302_163024_zpsrxmvqydx.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/benbenny007/20170302_163028_zpstakqhpyl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/benbenny007/20170302_163034_zps5az5333c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/benbenny007/20170302_163100_zpsxkdejkgd.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/benbenny007/20170302_163111_zpsqftmnhsh.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/benbenny007/20170302_163129_zpsfvf5xhwp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/benbenny007/media/20170301_190026_zpstdii4afu.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/benbenny007/media/20170301_190026_zpstdii4afu.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/benbenny007/20170301_190026_zpstdii4afu.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/benbenny007/media/20170302_163354_zpse6tyvfav.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/benbenny007/media/20170302_163354_zpse6tyvfav.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/benbenny007/20170302_163354_zpse6tyvfav.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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