Anagnes Study Collection

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The Anagnes Study Collection

A living record of paintings, ceramics, and sports memorabilia — documented honestly, displayed with care, and open to your knowledge.

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Landscape painting with figures
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Landscape with figures, oil on canvas

Signed "J. Maris" · 42 × 58 cm · Oil on canvas

Acquired at an estate sale among a group of unattributed Dutch-style works. The palette and brushwork suggest the Hague School tradition — but no documentation connects this canvas to any named artist. Open to your insights.

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On the ethics of displaying unauthenticated work

How a stranger on a forum identified my vase

Photographing marks and signatures with a phone

Why I stopped chasing appraisals

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    All suggestions are reviewed before appearing publicly. Contributors are credited by name (with permission) on the Contributors page.

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    How to Help

    You do not need to be an expert to contribute. Sometimes a fresh eye is enough.

    What is useful

    • Recognizing a signature, mark, or stamp
    • Identifying a style, school, period, or region
    • Spotting a printing method, card variation, or edition
    • Pointing to a similar piece in a museum or auction archive
    • Noticing a detail I have missed

    What is not useful

    • Statements of value ("this is worth X")
    • Unsourced claims of authorship
    • Anything you would not want attributed to you publicly

    How it works

    • Find the item.
    • Click Suggest Information.
    • Tell me what you noticed, and — if you can — why.
    • I review every submission. If it holds up, I add it to the research log and credit you (with your permission).

    Free research tools I use

    • Museum open-access databases — The Met, Rijksmuseum, Getty, Smithsonian, Europeana
    • Reverse image search — Google Lens, TinEye, Bing Visual Search
    • Auction archives — LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, WorthPoint (trial), AskArt
    • Ceramics marks — Kovels, marks4ceramics, thepotteries.org
    • Sports cards — PSA Card Lookup, Beckett, COMC, TCDB
    • Community forums — r/Antiques, r/whatisthispainting, specialist Facebook groups

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    Notes from the collector

    Journal

    Occasional reflections on collecting, documenting, and identifying.

    On the ethics of displaying unauthenticated work

    How a stranger on a forum identified my vase

    Photographing marks and signatures with a phone

    Why I stopped chasing appraisals

    Starting a study collection — where to begin

    About

    About This Catalog

    This is a personal study collection — an open, ongoing research catalog of paintings, ceramics, sports memorabilia, and other objects collected over the years.

    Most of these pieces have not been authenticated or appraised. Formal authentication is expensive, and for a collection like this, often impractical. Rather than pretend otherwise, I have chosen to document each piece honestly: what I can see, what I have observed, what I suspect, and what I simply do not know.

    That is where you come in.

    Every item here is open to correction, refinement, and identification. If you recognize a maker's mark, a signature, a style, a printing method, a card variation, or a frame stamp — please use the "Suggest Information" button on that item's page.

    Every piece carries a status

    Documented — has paperwork, receipt, or provenance Attributed — style or signature suggests, unconfirmed Researching — actively seeking information Unidentified — maker or origin unknown Community-Identified — identified by a visitor, pending confirmation

    Language is deliberate

    When I write "attributed to," "in the style of," or "signed [name]," I am describing what I observe — not asserting authorship. A signature is a mark on an object. It is not proof.

    Notes are dated

    My research log on each item shows what I have learned and when. Earlier notes may later be corrected — that is the point.

    Nothing is final

    This is a living catalog. Pieces move between statuses as new information arrives. This catalog exists to learn, share, and preserve — not to sell, not to claim value, and not to assert authorship.

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    Questions, suggestions, or a piece you would like to discuss? Send a message — I read every one.