~Roses on Ebay~

Thea, if you're really interested in antique roses paintings, then my advice is

• Only buy what you really love (more will come along ~ don't be impatient!)



• I Like to only buy original oil paintings done on canvas



• I like them to be antique or at least 80 years old - make sure you see a photograph of the back (it must be quite brown looking as though the oil has seeped through the painting)



• I don't mind if they have crackelature (tiny thin crackles in the painting) but that means the painting is quite unstable and you may lose some more paint especially in transit (does not worry me ~ but may worry you)



• I will not buy paintings that have been 'inpainted' ie when someone has redone some areas of missing paint



• These paintings are usually done by the Victorian ladies of leisure ~ they are amateur paintings and many of them are copies of the famous Victorian painters living in America at the time paintings these still lives (for example, Paul De Longpre, Le Roy and Catherine Klein)



• The roses are usually painted almost dying, quite droopy, lying on a table in a relaxed bouquet. Later paintings have roses formally arranged in a vase.
  

When you search on ebay, I suggest you search ~ antique roses painting or vintage roses painting or old roses painting. I found this one on ebay today, I have bought from this seller before and she is very trustworthy. Noveaurose (is you can't find her, search roses painting Klein and I think it will come up)