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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: water colour picture
« on: Sunday 11 December 11 16:19 GMT (UK)  »
Well ladies and gents, here comes the fun part. I found another person who has apparantly another painting from AE Foster. This person is in France. Here is the reply:
"I Live in France and found it a bootsale, how it got here I do not know. It is in very good condition, and I think it has the orignal frame.not bad for 84 years and all the travelling.I wonder if the farmhouse painted in the picture still exists in Didsbury?." There was another part of this message that I can not find: something written on the back of the painting dated 1927, "Shrewsbury"? Meadowdale?" Can't exactly remember.

Remember, mine is dated 1907. Here are images, and you can barely see the autograph which is troublesome but I looked at it with a magnifying glass.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: water colour picture
« on: Sunday 11 December 11 15:47 GMT (UK)  »
You may remember our discussion regarding AE Foster. I discovered a Reverend AE Foster at Christchurch, Richmond in the late 1890s and early 20s. I can't seem to find the exact church as there are too many with this name. There appears to be a site which you have to pay for in order to get pictures which I believe there is a few of this person. It would be interesting to find out if these two AEs are the same person, if the vicar was also a painter of high regard. My signature on my painting is different than this one. The shape of the T differs and all the other letters are in lower case shape. There is another person in France who has a painting and we are trying to investigate to see what we can come up with. They have a 1927 painting with "Didsbury" and a farmhouse in the image.

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The Common Room / Re: A.E. Foster, artist?
« on: Monday 28 June 10 17:06 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the update. Any scribbling on back of oil painting? How old was your dad at the time? Water color looks terrific. Neat mystery. Will try to find out more about my painting today. Will try to match signatures with your picture. 1907 versus your date 1868 plus 25 say equals 1893. He died awfully young. Aye?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: water colour picture
« on: Monday 21 June 10 22:21 BST (UK)  »
Wow, this story is getting interesting. Did AE Foster do the watercolor of your grandfather? Was he part of an art school? movement? from Derbyshire?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: water colour picture
« on: Monday 21 June 10 22:19 BST (UK)  »
Yes! This was the "thread." I know. I placed a bid on it. I can't find one item on this English painter anywhere--a week's worth of work searching the internet. However, in the previous thread the person, you Clive?, said you had a painting of the same author. It can't be the same picture, can it? The story was about a father who was a miner who most likely couldn't afford it with this same name. Do you have another painting by this painter and do you know anything about it?

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The Common Room / A.E. Foster, artist?
« on: Monday 21 June 10 18:30 BST (UK)  »
I have been trying to find out about a possible British artist named, A. E. Foster. A found a stream of conversation by a "ChinaKey" and a "Clivealbert" related to it but can't seem to find out how to contact them. Does anyone have any history on this person, for a research project of mine?

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