Artist signature detectives needed

David Hockney? Has it got any naked men in it?

 

I reckon I saw Nancy painting that when I was off school with earache in 1979

 

Does it smell of dead sharks and formaldehyde? Could be a Damian Hirst

 

I picked your painting up from the restorers, Malc. It's come up quite well

 

It does, this is how they caught these two rapscallions...

 

What's the signature say?

 

Looks to me like a genuine forgery its been varnished over to give the impreshion its old but the cracks are to consistent.

 

Might be a goose chase but:
https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/bmd_marriage/?name=William_Rashbrook&gender=m

 

Unless you have one of his from when he was reeeely decrepit and signing in capitals .... he seems to write his name in full and with both upper and lower case

 

Or .... "Is that with your new endoscope?" ... This is TLB after all

 

I can't resist delving ... Has been a useful trait for work
How about initials and then where it is, as in, Ashbrook?

 

Painting of Ashbrook by "W R" .......

 

“Sharon, class 6”

 

He saves them for hitting unwanted intruders over the head on his night's out in the truck