TONAL VALUES VICTORIAN STYLE

[FUJI]

Experimenting with one of my best AF lenses this morning, I took this mono test shot of the large mid-Victorian portrait that hangs over the fireplace in my living room.

This mono-version, seems to throw, new-light, on what is a very familiar painting.

I don’t know who the subject was, I do know they she is expertly painted and equal to the portraits of the Bronte Sister’s in the Howarth Parsonage ... it is of a similar age, and has the familiar finely cracked bitumastic  black background.

Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery  assessed the painting for me, some years ago now.... but they seemed to be only interested in the 18th century jewelry and gold fob watch she is wearing.

The painting was given to me as a gift from the widow of an old friend....... a brave man who was a Hemophiliac  who volunteered for medical experiments, sadly he died during one of them.

Just prior to his demise, many years ago now, I had helped him to research and to restore a 19th Century Disc Polyphon....I had helped his widow to sell it to a major collector.

I treasure the portrait, and hope one day that I might discover a signature hidden within that thick bitumastic black.... I recently realised that the canvas, has been re-stretched so gave bedn looking in the wrong places for any clues as to the Artist.

 

FUJI

 

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The Antique  Roadshow looks like the next stop  Fooj...  or maybe The Repair Shop...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Repair_Shop#:~:text=The Repair Shop is filmed,smithy and nearby wagon shed.

 

 I've watched a lot of these programmes and the oil painting restorer Lucia Scalisi is amazing ... and it's all for free  ... donations accepted .