Anyone know anything about paintings?

[Clint]

Hello all
A couple of years ago me the Mrs and kids were out on a day out to the coast,West Wales.
There was a house clearance type sale on the street...all sorts of junk in boxes and on table tops,which my eldest son wanted to rummage through.
Anyway he finds a small painting in a box of stuff,of a boat and wants to buy it coz he likes it..a fiver. So I says please yourself..
It's signed Stobart. It's in what looks like an original frame and has an old label on the back with old 4 digit telephone numbers and what looks like an auction lot number.
I did some research at the time and it's an English maritime artist,John Stobart who died January 2023,aged 93,having lived in America most of his life.
I spoke to someone at his gallery in Massachusets who asked could I bring the painting there as he thought it sounded like one of his early works but needed to see it! Errr...no chance! Then correspondence stopped and we forgot about it until recently sorting my lads room out and looking at the picture again.
So...I'm not going to the US..but wonder if it's the real deal!

 

[Rodcx500z]

His first name is not Eddie by any chance, sorry i couldn't help it

 

[Leon103]

Hello all
A couple of years ago me the Mrs and kids were out on a day out to the coast,West Wales.
There was a house clearance type sale on the street...all sorts of junk in boxes and on table tops,which my eldest son wanted to rummage through.
Anyway he finds a small painting in a box of stuff,of a boat and wants to buy it coz he likes it..a fiver. So I says please yourself..
It's signed Stobart. It's in what looks like an original frame and has an old label on the back with old 4 digit telephone numbers and what looks like an auction lot number.
I did some research at the time and it's an English maritime artist,John Stobart who died January 2023,aged 93,having lived in America most of his life.
I spoke to someone at his gallery in Massachusets who asked could I bring the painting there as he thought it sounded like one of his early works but needed to see it! Errr...no chance! Then correspondence stopped and we forgot about it until recently sorting my lads room out and looking at the picture again.
So...I'm not going to the US..but wonder if it's the real deal!

$500 if in good condition.

 

[Clint]

It looks mint,no damage at all.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Get some pictures on here Clint would love to see it.

 

[YeastFace]

Might be worth contacting an auction house in the artist's hometown? Seems he grew up in Derby.

 

[Rodcx500z]

On a more serious note, this may interest you https://www.annapolismarineart.com/...rk9Rk49yIkmM9IQ-Vwz72xPcX7cXnvctw8XTa14VcnwmJ

 

[Clint]

I contacted the gallery in Massachusets and they asked could I go there...

 

[Rodcx500z]

I contacted the gallery in Massachusets and they asked could I go there...

Will they not look at photos

 

[Clint]

Sent them,that's when they asked to see it. I did see an article where the artist had a selection of his early work that were never going on sale and it's very similar.

 

[Rodcx500z]

There must be people in this country who can look at it

 

[Stu]

$500 if in good condition.

If it's a Lithograph, perhaps.
Tick the "paintings" and it's significantly more than that.
https://www.invaluable.com/artist/s...u9QDB-6_BO1Fn9BFRfdpZL0N2vq&Fine Art=Painting

 

[Clint]

It's only got the name Stobart in black in the bottom right corner,no number of a total.
My son has looked a few times..the prints and lithograph are copies of the originals which you can find. We cannot find another the same.

 

[Clint]

This is a photo off my phone from when we first got it. Not very good..

 

[Rodcx500z]

You just might have an original there Clint

 

[Rodcx500z]

If you can work out what type of sail that is you may be able to pin the type of ship down

 

[Clint]

The boat flag is India. The label on the back is J Davey and sons,Liverpool and also Manchester,framers. They were trading from the late 1800s to the late 60s I think. The phone number is just 4 digits! There's also a large number followed by a letter written across the back.

 

[Rodcx500z]

What i am getting at is what type of boat it is, to me it looks like it is for coastal sailing maybe Dutch for inshore waters

 

[Clint]

Dutch flying the flag of India? I dunno...
There's "Port Of Liverpool" I've found on Ebay by Stobart,looks same sort of size,style,signed...£650.

 

[Stu]

I'd definitely get a professional opinion.