water colour picture

[Yankee1]

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?

[PrueM]

As the picture is an overpainted photographic portrait, the artist may not have been an 'establishment' one...he may have been a local painter or even a family friend.

Best places to look for nationally-recognised artists are the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain, both of which have online databases.

Cheers
Prue

[chinakay]

Ah, see you've already found it, Yankee

[clivealbert]

Hi, The "watercolour" is on Winsor&Newton board which made me think it was an original watercxolour.  The experts on rootschat have put me right.The Oil painting, by A.E. Foster, is framed 50cm by70cm.
 My aunt keeps it in a wardrobe, I have seen it once quite a few years ago, my sister is visting her at present and I have asked my sister if she could get a photo of it. I
will be visiting my aunt in September, and will ask her.
My aunt ,aged 86 does not think much of family history, and she thought i could find better things to do. The picture is of my great grandfather who was killed in a mining accidenf at manners Cooliery 21  Dec 1896.
Best wishes Clive

[clivealbert]

Hi,Yankee1, the watercolour and oil are the same subject which made me think that it was a professional artist, the watercolour being done before the oil. my grandfather was a coal miner,who would not have been on alarge wage in the 1890. However his wife came from afamily who had a number of shops in ilkeston.
best wishes Clive

[Images of time]

One from me

[PrueM]

Hi, The "watercolour" is on Winsor&Newton board which made me think it was an original watercxolour. 

If the watercolour is on an artist board then I will revise my previous comments, and say that it's a direct copy from a photograph    The reason I said it was an overpainted photograph is that its format is exactly that of a carte-de-visite photograph of that era - a head and shoulders portrait in an oval vignette.  I'd say the artist was working from such a photograph when he did his watercolour rendition, and then perhaps he worked from his watercolour to make the larger one in oils.

Cheers
Prue

[Abiam2]

Whoever photographed, painted water colour or oil or what ever would be proud of how their work has been improved so many years later.  Congratulations to all of you - a wonderful job.
Abiam2

[Yankee1]

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.