Who painted these two pictures of boats?
Update 12 Dec
Clue #1: Both pictures are painted by the same person.
Clue #2: The person is famous but not for being a painter.
Update #2
Congratulations to tugster for working out that the painter (of both paintings) was Winston Churchill. I found them in a quiz in which you have to guess which of 10 paintings were by Churchill and which by another World War ll leader and sometime painter, Adolf Hitler.
gaugin and rembrandt?
ReplyDeleteNot Gaugin or Rembrandt
ReplyDeleteCool quiz!
ReplyDeleteAny chance of seeing them larger?
Nice try JP. I know you just want to be able to read the signatures on the paintings!
ReplyDeleteThe bottom one might be Constable...?!?
ReplyDeleteCyalayta
Mal :)
Sorry Mal. Not Constable.
ReplyDeleteYou could hide the signature if you like - its just its hard to see the style with something that small.
ReplyDeleteBottom one looks a bit Turner-esq
I agree with you, But no, not Turner.
ReplyDeletecontemporary of van gogh, if not monoear himself.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing, inspired by my first reaction.
Not Van Gogh, or really a contemporary of his except in the most literal sense that their lives did overlap a few years.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Monet to me.
ReplyDeleteNot Monet.
ReplyDeleteOK. Here's a clue. Both paintings are actually by the same person.
This is doing my head-in. Please tell me it wasn't you
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't me.
ReplyDeleteboth by same famous non-painter who was born slightly before 1890 . . . i'm guessing a politician, writer, or musician, winston churchill? gertrude stein, stravinski? give us another clue.
ReplyDeleteGetting warm tugster...
ReplyDeleteAnother clue: this person always considered themselves an amateur painter but last year one of their paintings sold for £612,800 at Sotheby's.
so does the painter pose himself with cigars and flip the bird and pointer finger? did he fight in the boer war? was he inspiration to maggie trasher?
ReplyDeleteWell done tugster, you got it.
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