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Prorat
Aug 3, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
Inherited from my Grandma who had it since the 60s. The artist is Van... Something. Van Hoest?




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InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

I'm strong. And a giant penguin. Please don't eat me. No, really. Don't try.
Have you tried taking a good-quality directly-forward-facing non-distorted better-lit image of just the painting itself, not in situ and seeing if GIS finds any other copies of it?

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer
There's a guy named Van Houten who does similar naval paintings?

https://www.google.com/search?q=van...n+painter+naval

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_van_Houten

Prorat
Aug 3, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
Interesting, I will look that guy up and try to match his signature, I'll also try and reverse image look up it.

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