Completed Continental European after 1800, Continental European before 1800 23 Can anyone tell us more about this painting?

This particular design of Winsor & Newton stamp was common between about 1888 and 1905. See the guide to canvas stamps, "Part 10 Winsor & Newton canvas" on the page on the National Portrait Gallery website, https://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/artists-their-materials-and-suppliers/

The boy looks Italian, wearing country or peasant clothes, and what may be a religious medal.

Is it possible to get a high-resolution close-up of the lower right corner? Perhaps it is nothing, but there might be a faint signature there.

Perhaps it is a painting inspired by Neapolitan Fisher Boy by Gustav Karl Ludwig Richter, which was widely copied:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neapolitan_Fisher_Boy_by_Boston_Public_Library.jpg

It is certainly in the same vein, Andrew.

The necklace no doubt holds a Catholic religious medal, very commonly worn by children, possibly a St Christopher medal.

Compare to these pictures of Italian fisher boys also wearing medals:

https://bit.ly/2Qvu76y

https://bit.ly/3gjhlCT

https://bit.ly/3vbxoHh

This sort of genre picture, quite possibly meant for a non-Italian market, was not intended as a portrait of a specific person but as a type, so the title need not use the words "portrait" or "unidentified." Something like "Italian Boy with Straw Hat" is more apt.

Thanks for all your comments and suggestions. Will will add the information provided to our database record.

The zoom into the bottom right corner on the high resolution images show no sign of a signature.

As the Collection has noted the comments and suggestions and said they will add the information provided to the database record, would this not be the moment for closing this submission, with a Group Leader recommendation?

Is it possible to improve the information about the donor? Was he Arthur Ridgway Denton who passed away on December 24, 1964, at The Hollies, 90 Haygate Road, Wellington, Shropshire? His birth was registered at St. George, Hanover Square, London, in Q2 1881.

Mr. Denton was a retired bank official according to the London Gazette of January 15, 1965. https://tinyurl.com/2p8kxdah

He was a member of the British Numismatic Society. https://tinyurl.com/5uwnc8m6

According to Wikipedia, numismatics “is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects." Perhaps this painting was selected by Mr. Denton because of the medal worn by the boy.

A painting by Salvatore Postiglione (https://tinyurl.com/msrykhhb) that clearly copies the work mentioned by Andrew – ‘Neopolitan Fisher Boy’ by Gustav Karl Ludwig Richter – shows the medal more clearly. https://tinyurl.com/5n6xczu7

Is this work “Italian School” or does the Winsor & Newton stamp mean that it is "British school"?

I have a painting I'm buying it's stamped on back winton London but I've researched the artist I can't find anything can anyone please help?
Thanks

Art UK is focussed on public collections. It is not a vehicle for providing information on paintings in private collections as I think you will find in its guidelines

Good afternoon Stace. There's more information here. https://www.artuk.org/artdetective/about

Art UK will adjust the homepage text to clarify what is meant by a 'public collection' in this context. Collections must be represented on our website and they must be accessible to the general public, whether through advertised opening hours or by appointment.

To answer Marcie's question of 30/03/2022 the Winsor & Newton stamp likely means that the painting is a British copy of an Italian work.

As David Saywell asked on 29/03/2022 would this not be the moment for closing this submission, with a Group Leader recommendation?

I suggest that Art UK approaches the relevant group leader concerning this work.

I would suggest a descriptive and incontestable title like "Boy with a Straw Hat" and listing this as by or after Italian School. Even if it is a copy, which is entirely possible, I doubt the original is earlier than 19th century.

The will of Arthur Ridgway Denton (26 April 1881 – 24 December 1964) dated 15 December 1961 confirms that he was the donor of this work. Perhaps his full name could be used in the acquisition information and the record updated with his home address (The Hollies, 82 Haygate Road, Wellington, Shropshire).

At the outset of this discussion the collection posted two images of the reverse, a canvas stamp and a fragmentary stretcher label. I commented on the Winsor & Newton canvas stamp at the time (16/04/2021). The label, I now observe, is almost certainly that of Mrs Elizabeth Norton's Birmingham business active 1866-1919. See the downloadable guide, part 12 England, under Research: Artists suppliers, on the National Portait Gallery website.

I recommend that the Shrewsbury Museum’s painting should be entitled Italian Boy with a Straw Hat by an unknown 19th-century British artist copied after an unknown Italian or German artist.

Thanks to Jacob Simon’s research on Winsor & Newton canvas stamps (see post 16/04/2021) and the artist supplier Elizabeth Norton in Birmingham (see post 31/05/2023) as tabulated on the NPG website at https://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/artists-their-materials-and-suppliers/ and https://www.npg.org.uk/assets/files/pdf/research/artists_materials_12_London.pdf the anonymous British artist probably painted the canvas sometime between 1888 and 1905 and may have come from Birmingham or the West Midlands.

As Marcie Doran’s post (31/05/2023) confirms it was donated by Arthur Ridgway Denton (26 April 1881 – 24 December 1964) a retired London bank official of Wellington, Shropshire.

Xanthe, thank you for your comments. I will close this after we hear from the collection.