Another illegible artist signature
September 18, 2021 8:43 AM   Subscribe

My sister bought this watercolor in Belgium sometime in the last few years. Nobody can figure out the signature. Here is a photo of the whole painting. Can you help decipher it? The waterscape looks like Holland to me.
posted by mareli to Media & Arts (4 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
First name looks like "Aaron".
posted by JimN2TAW at 9:24 AM on September 18, 2021


The first word actually looks like "Anvers" to me, which is apparently the French name for Antwerp.
posted by wintersweet at 9:30 AM on September 18, 2021 [2 favorites]


The first word looks like “Anvers,” ie Antwerp. So that could be a description of the painting, and the rest could be the artist’s signature.

Edit- what wintersweet said.
posted by leeloo minai at 9:32 AM on September 18, 2021


Agree about the Anvers. This is only a guess but the next character (or two) has a distinct flourish coming of it, so it looks to me like the initials of a first/middle name with “Mous” being the last name. A Jozef Mous comes up as a Belgian painter from the late 1800s to the 60s and the online examples cover a range of styles but do include pictures of ports in a style that looks roughly contemporaneous with yours. The signatures don’t match but is possible for that to evolve to over a lifetime..or could be a relative?
posted by brachiopod at 11:39 AM on September 18, 2021


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