✅ SOLVED Old painting?

[farmdump]

Found this painting at an antique store awhile back and was wondering if anyone could shed some more light on who this exactly is an when it was made? Thanks

 

[Mackaydon]

Any signature on the front or anything on the back that might help with the ID?
Don.

 

[Sentrom]

First: size? Second: is that a thin wood panel, canvas, parchment or vellum that the painting is on? Third: A couple of very high resolution photos of the edge where the paint meets the canvas and of the brush strokes. Fourth: a photo of the backside. Fifth: as asked before, is it signed? If so a picture of the signature.

With your low resolution photos, it looks like it could be a picture glued to a board and then a varnish put over it or a painting that may have been artificially aged. Best to see the photos zoomed in.

 

[farmdump]

Here are some high-def. pictures of the corners and a close up of the face.











Hope this helps and there is no signature on the painting.

 

[unclemac]

we can't really help you, you need to take it to an expert in your area, there are just too many possibilities for us to tell you from a few pix.

 

[Smithbrown]

If you do decide to pursue this, you might try getting good pictures of the brooch the sitter is wearing as it looks like the badge of a chivalric institution; this might help you narrow down the country of origin.
Smithbrown

 

[tamrock]

I have seen other paintings like this in antique malls and flea markets. Very old looking no frame canvas painting, but with different old whimsical looking subjects. I will say from what I saw the brush strokes were very similar on the one I see of yours. These paintings I saw and looked at very closely. I saw evidence of fabricated aging stains and things that didn't add up, such as the canvas didn't look old, dingy and deteriorating as I thought old canvas should. The dirt all looked applied over a new canvas. I took these paintings I saw, as someone attempt to produce an old looking piece of art, leading me on like I had discovered a old lost or stolen masterpiece cut from it's frame. As for your find I can't say. How was this painting you have listed and described when you purchased it?