Having the Guys head to Brimfield makes me just want to go too! Lewis reminded me of the painting that we found that was of the Gloucester Harbor. We found it in a flea market in the Mountains of Virginia. It was a really nice looking painting, and it ended up being signed. We reframed it and cleaned it. My Dad was still alive at the time, he thought it looked good too. His eye sight was not what it used to be. We all tried to figure out the signature we finally came up with the name Emily Greer, she was an american artist who had studied with some really good Impressionist painters. We took the painting to Brimfield for two seasons. An art dealer from Maine looked at it and debated and looked some more. He finally purchased it from us for $800. It had been to Brimfield some 4 times.
Years later reflecting on the quality of the painting and rethinking the signature we realized that we had sold the painting as a Greer,but in reality it was more than likely to have been a Emile Gruppe. Here are some documented Gruppes, not the one that we sold, but, oh so similar. This just goes to prove that the early bird sometimes misses the worm. I really loved that painting, but we are in the business to sell.
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