How to find a artist from a painting?

How can you quickly figure out an art painter from a painting? a number of useful tips. If the signature is reasonably readable but not entirely, use the section that you can read correctly. Here is a good example. This was a painting I had recently visited

 

 

The signature is reasonably unreadable. There are a number of letters that are good to read. like the F & Chatt. These are the letters that I am going to search for. To begin with, I search for a list of Dutch art painters because this is once a painting that was bought in the Netherlands. There are several sites where this can be found but for convenience I have placed a list of Dutch painters on this blog ->

klikhier: LIJST ALFABET HOLLANDSE SCHILDERS  

Click here: LIST ALL WORLD PAINTERS

Once you are on the site, you search quickly and easily through the search option. 
CTRL + SHIFT + F



A search window now appears, in which you type your clearly readable letters from the signature. the readable letters must be next to each other in the signature. In the example this was "chatt" A number of names will be found. Compare these names with the signature and you may find the right one. With the painter's example, the "chatt" part clearly emerged and the search result immediately matched the right painter.



 Rossum du Chattel of Frederic Jacobus 1856-1917 Now you can easily find out who the painter is that match with google. There is a lot to be found on the internet nowadays as well as what a painter is. Whether the painting you have corresponds to the working of the found painter. And of course whether the signature matches the painter found. It is soon to be found that the painter often signs with "Fred.F.du Chattel".



The painting I was looking for, however, was different. "n.F.J.du Chattel". Many paintings are often painted after large masters. The paintings were then often signed with a letter N in front of it, ie painted to. By searching google with the painter there is a lot to be found. This is also the original work of van du chattel. The after-done work of du chattel:

 

The Utrecht Vecht and its surroundings inspired F.J. from Rossum du Chattel to painting numerous impressions of this river, which is why he was called 'the painter of the Vecht' by critics. He also painted the landscape around The Hague. He was born in Leiden in 1856, received his first painting lessons from his father, Jan Hendrik van Rossum du Chattel, and then worked in The Hague in the studio of the Hague impressionist Willem Maris. Museums: including the Haags Gemeentemuseum. 

If your painting does not have a signature look then here: How to trace art painter without signature / signature?



Signatures are unique and often reveal something of our individual personalities. In this intriguing book, John Wilmerding—an eminent historian of American art—explores the unconventional use of signatures in paintings. The author focuses on American artists who have not simply signed their works on a corner of the canvas but have intentionally placed their signatures within thepictorial space of the painting. A painter’s name or initials might, for instance, appear as an illusion on a wall or floor, on an object within an interior, or on some form in a landscape. Wilmerding examines such signatures in works by twenty-seven artists from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, including John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Jasper Johns, Andrew Wyeth, and Richard Estes.