Atmospheric Antique Oil on Wood Panel Seascape Painting, Framed blue and white stoneware the painting pretty much completely

the painting pretty much completely dissolves into abstraction

I If I had the means I'd become a great collector of Inuit art

Dows' biography is fascinating

The leather top has lost some of its stitching

could use a few more nails on linen tape to hold it tightly

Atmospheric Antique Oil on Wood Panel Seascape Painting, Framed blue and white stoneware the painting pretty much completelyI have be come so much interested in the patina on old paintings, becoming at least as much about their object hood as the image they portray. And my favorite of all is old pool paintings on wood panel; there is just an atmospheric ness and luminosity about them that is its own very special thing. This 19th century seascape is a case in point. Plenty of scattered paint loss (with underpainting showing through), which could be seen as detracting, but I