Just minor work needed...
Jan Van Couver
Jan Van Couver. 1836-1909. Hermanus Koekkoek, Jr.
Torn and dirty oil on canvas C: 1890s. Nasty stretched tears with several rips.
Cleaning in progress.
Cleaned and restored.
Caronia. The millionaire's ship.
Caronia. The millionaires' ship and Green Goddess. Paint flaking and detaching from canvas.
The finished work. The original frame has some labelling so was worth restoring - not that it gave a wealth of information.
Arthur William Head painting.
Arthur William Head, 1861–1930.
This painting was sold at Bonhams in 2001 - and hasn't been treated very well since the gavel fell..
It's an attractive work now it's clean. Beneath Chinese lantern stems sits a Meissen nodding china-man. He's chuckling at a statuette of 'Scaramuz and Columbine with a bird cage, from the "commedia dell'arte",embracing and gazing into each other's eyes, flanked by a tree, porcelain, polychromed and gilt, the base encrusted with leaves and with gilt edge, height: 18 cm. Meissen, model by Johann Joachim Kändler 1740.'
The vase is Phoenix Ware, Thomas Forester (Thomas & Sons).
