From: Bob Sullivan
Doug, Wow, that's a nice set of photos! I've been thru the flash series several times but like the html version better. Like Christine, I keep coming back to #8. Isn't that an early Matise or Picasso painting above? It is memorable for the subject's odd atire. The whole scene is a sort of echo with the lad in formal dress on the antique sofa. Regards, Bob S.
Stylistically, it's Early American portraiture ... 18th century equivalent of getting "Uncle George" to take family photos because he has a "real" camera.
The painting is a primitive, un-schooled style - typical of itinerant American artists in the late colonial and early post colonial period.
If it's a known painter, it might be worth some money, but not anything near as much as its value as a family heirloom.
That's somebody's great-great-great-great ... grandma. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
