Need help identifying Victorian lithograph artist

noofa · January 1st, 2012, 09:32 PM

I have a lithograph of the Horse Statue (Residenzbrunnen) in Saltzburg, probably late 1800's. The signature looks like 'Rerfn' and is reasonably clear but open to interpretation. Any help with the signature and/or the artist would be appreciated. Colin

John · January 1st, 2012, 11:13 PM

I would say that reads "Perov". There are a number of artists by that name, notably Vasily Perov.

You can try putting a scan of the lithograph into Google's reverse image search to see if anything comes up. Use the little camera icon inside the search box of Google's image search.

noofa · January 3rd, 2012, 01:08 AM

Thank you John for your prompt reply and advice. The line behind the O (second last letter in the signature) confused me into thinking it was an F.
You also introduced me to the search by picture feature of Google images which I didn't realise existed. So I was enlightened in two areas.

Unfortunately the image wasn't able to be matched at this time and I have searched many sites in relation to PEROV but as yet haven't progressed much further.

So, again thank you for at least helping identifying the surname of the artist - this sort of search becomes enriching and exciting - thankyou

Noofa

John · January 3rd, 2012, 10:53 AM

No problem. Of course I may not be correct, but at least Perov is a fairly common name and it seems like a good guess. BTW, findartinfo.com lists several different artists by that name. It seems like a long list at first glance, but they list some artists multiple times using different translations of their names from Russian. Looking at the birth/death dates will make it clearer who is who.

January 3rd, 2012, 01:08 AM	#3
noofa Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 2	Need help identifying victorian lithograph artist Thank you John for your prompt reply and advice. The line behind the O (second last letter in the signature) confused me into thinking it was an F. You also introduced me to the search by picture feature of Google images which I didn't realise existed. So I was enlightened in two areas. Unfortunately the image wasn't able to be matched at this time and I have searched many sites in relation to PEROV but as yet haven't progressed much further. So, again thank you for at least helping identifying the surname of the artist - this sort of search becomes enriching and exciting - thankyou Noofa

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January 1st, 2012, 11:13 PM	#2
John John Malyon, host Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,400	I would say that reads "Perov". There are a number of artists by that name, notably Vasily Perov. You can try putting a scan of the lithograph into Google's reverse image search to see if anything comes up. Use the little camera icon inside the search box of Google's image search.

January 3rd, 2012, 10:53 AM	#4
John John Malyon, host Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,400	No problem. Of course I may not be correct, but at least Perov is a fairly common name and it seems like a good guess. BTW, findartinfo.com lists several different artists by that name. It seems like a long list at first glance, but they list some artists multiple times using different translations of their names from Russian. Looking at the birth/death dates will make it clearer who is who.