Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="Jeanette Torello, post: 965921, member: 12193"][ATTACH=full]204521[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]204522[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]204510[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]204511[/ATTACH] My name is Jeanette and I’m here to see if someone can help solve the mystery of a painting that was my great grandfather’s. It’s oil on wood panel with a wax seal on the back. It hung in my ggd’s dining room in Brooklyn NY since I was a baby in the late 60’s, and my late mother had remembered it from her childhood as well. I was told he bought all his interesting furnishings from a man selling everything he owned. With that, the true history of the painting is lost. There is no signature but there is a wax seal on the back. I’m enclosing pics of both. Any info asto where I may be able to find out more or how I can research the seal would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!Ok, I meant to add this before I reposted this from the introduction page:I took the painting to an Antiques Roadshow, but it was the end of the day by the time it was seen and we were rushed. We were told the wood panel was definitely from as early as the 16th century and that it was a common wood used among Flemish painters. It was not thought to be a reproduction, and there wasn’t enough time to investigate the seal. We were told to def do more research and to have it restored.Dimensions are 21 x 16 1/2 Attached Files:[ATTACH=full]204510[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]204511[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]