Collector's Journal — Fine Art
The Signature in Blue: A Chinese Highland Portrait and the Search for Lin Shusen (林树森)
Art Research Asian Art Chinese Art Chinese Oil Painting Contemporary Chinese Art Dafen Dafen Art Fine Art Highland Child Lin Shusen Portrait Painting Provenance Research Shanghai Art Yi Ren Gallery 林树森
A mysterious blue Chinese signature and surviving Yi Ren Gallery, Shanghai label have opened a fascinating investigation into this expressive highland child portrait and its possible connection with Shenzhen/Dafen realist painter Lin Shusen (林树森, b. 1974).
Alfred de Breanski Jr at Lake Windermere: Light, Landscape and the A. Fontville Signature
Alfred de Breanski Jr Alfred Fontville Art Provenance Art Research British Art British Landscape Painting Collecting Fine Art Fine Art Lake District Lake Windermere
Signed “A. FONTVILLE” and titled Lake Windermere verso, this atmospheric early twentieth-century landscape leads into the story of Alfred Fontville de Breanski Jr., his exhibition career, alternative signature and fascination with changing natural light.
George Houston: Evening, Glen Sannox — An Atmospheric Scottish Landscape, c.1900–1920
Art Research & Provenance British Art Early 20th Century Art Evening Glen Sannox Fine Art George Houston George Houston RSA RSW Glen Sannox Ian MacNicol Fine Art Isle of Arran Landscape Painting McTear’s Scottish Art Scottish Artists Scottish Landscape
Explore Evening, Glen Sannox, an atmospheric signed Scottish landscape by George Houston RSA RSW (1869–1947), dating to circa 1900–1920. Depicting the mountains of the Isle of Arran at dusk, the painting retains an important Ian MacNicol Fine Art, Glasgow label recording both its historic title and artist, together with documented McTear’s provenance.
