Two water cans.

[oldironsides]

Hi, folks,

found these two cans in an antique shop at the weekend. one is fairly recent, the other is presumably older. I wonder if anyone can suggest where they come from?Two cans.

Edited August 22, 2011 by oldironsides

[kitman]

Hi, folks,

found these two cans in an antique shop at the weekend. one is fairly recent, the other is presumably older. I wonder if anyone can suggest where they come from?Two cans.

Is one of them Percy Foster? page 59, Flowers Afloat

[dave moore]

Hi all,

I've had a look at the photos and agree with Kitman that Percy Foster could be the painter, although in my opinion Frank Nurser is slightly more of a possibility. Certainly the painting is classic Braunston style. I'd love to see the can in the flesh; it's often hard to discern detail from photographs. I have several examples of Braunston painting here as part of mine and Phil Speight's historic collections and comparison would be useful.

 

The newer can I can't help with.....post carrying days, I suspect.....lots of painters have "had a go" since then. Certainly whoever painted it had looked at older stuff and there's a touch of Bunny Bunford in the castle, I fancy, He was a well known signwriter and painter in the 60s/70s.

 

Anyone else care to offer opinions? Hope so!

 

 

Best wishes

 

Dave

[Laurence Hogg]

I would tend to agree with Dave re first can, second is a Lesters can from around the mid 1990's and the painter almost cetainly is my ex wife Gill Hogg (Traditional Artmetalware Co). The brush strokes are identical to can here in the office. The can looks "unfinished" and rushed which typified her cans as she always said there was no money in them!

Edited August 22, 2011 by Laurence Hogg

[Terence]

I would agree with Kitman on Mr Foster, I can see some of Nurser in the work. This image is a Nurser Can similar but I can see differences.

 

 

Terence