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.
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]
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
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
posted by brachiopod at 11:39 AM on September 18, 2021
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posted by JimN2TAW at 9:24 AM on September 18, 2021