anyone know where this cottage & bay is ?

[oldtimer]

very true! 

[Seoras]

Are those two women collecting seaweed? I know this was an activity on the Outer Hebrides,like South Uist.

I know,I'm not being much help ,just throwing some ideas into the hat.

George.

[millymcb]

Is it a postcard or a painting?

Milly

[veeblevort]

The style is like that of Harold Dearden (10 Sep 1888 - 6 Jul 1962).

I wondered whether knowing something about the artist might help locate the scene, but information on him is pretty thin, although his work is still selling today, even found it on Ebay.

He was born and raised in Rochdale, attended Rochdale College of Art 1905-1910, then RCA 1910-1915.

Resident in Swindon from 1920, and head of Swindon art school for 30 years. I'm trying to Google for more information about him, but keep getting offered material on a doctor and a writer with the same name.

[ankerdine]

wow, thanks for the suggestion - within 5 minutes of posting it !!

however, not convinced it's Treen as the google pix look fairly dissimilar. no cave either that I can see.
tim

I am in agreement with most folks on here that it must be the Logan Rock near Lands End. There are caves in the area (Mousehole) and those rocks look just like those at Lamorna Cove just around the corner.

It's just pretty symbolic I think.
Judy

[marcie dean]

been in my family for years, signed 'dearden' but I have no idea where it is.
thanks
tim

Just to clarify, you state its signed dearden, this must be the signature of the artist and not signifying the name of the place, ??

[Little Nell]

It does look as if it is looking south.

There is no settlement on the coast which would give you that sort of angle of view of Logan Rock.  Treen is the village inland of Penberth, a fishing cove, photos here:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/browse.php?p=20354

This is to the east of Logan Rock.  Lamorna Cove is further east still and it is not possible to see Logan Rock from there.

Porthgwarra to the west of Porthcurno was a possibility but it doesn't match.  It doesn't quite meet my own recollections and photos of this area.

I suspect an amalgamation of several places by the artist.  My father, who is an avid water-colour artist, does this all the time. 

Nice item to have.

Nell

[Seoras]

The three things that make me shy away from Cornwall are:-

1. That rock is neither the shape or colour of the Logan Rock in Cornwall.

2.That red roof,if it wasn't thatch it would more than likely be slate in Cornwall.

3.Those boats don't look like Cornish boats.

As Nell says it could be a combination of several places,though something tells me this is or was an actual place or the artists interpretation of one.

George.

[tim99]

gosh, lots of questions & suggestions  - thank you so much !!

It is a painting, I think it's oil - definitely not watercolour.  about 3ft x 2ft.  no frame.

it says Dearden on the back in pencil, I never thought it could be a place name.  Bartholomew's 1905 gazetteer lists no place called Dearden, and I think (don't have it in front of me) that there IS an initial letter in front of the name.  I will check when I get home.

Thanks for the Harold Dearden  comment - my plan was to identify the painting and then put it on ebay with the place name found, as the painting is meaningless to me.   If it is by a known artist, so much the better.

I have looked on google for photos of the places people have suggested so far, and as you all say, the funny shaped rock on the top is pretty definitive.  Nell suggests an amalgamation of places, which I agree is a good idea, but surely if you were painting somewhere "pretty" from imagination, you wouldn't have put that lump on the top would you ?   I guess the painting may be an unfinished work, but then it wouldn't have been in my family (sheffield area) unless someone had bought it (or been given it) at some point.

If anyone can pinpoint a photo which looks like this painting,  (and if it was a definite single place then it would surely have been photographed!) then I will consider the matter solved.  so far there is nothing online which looks like this - even bearing in mind it's probably 100 yeasr ago when it was painted - although I think the recent suggestion of Cornwall coves will bear fruit in the end.  Lamorna \Cove looks the closest so far.  I might stick this on the Cornwall board too, when the suggestions here dry up !

many thanks

tim
ps, Nell, the geograph link is broken on my pc I'm afraid.