Where Is This?

[bhg481]

Does anybody know where this is? It's a watercolour my grandma had and I've always wondered where it was painted.

https://i.postimg.cc/QxJ05rMw/PGX90146.jpg

[mallyh]

is it signed as that may help identify the place

[237SJ]

The town part looks a bit like Ilfracombe but the foreground doesn`t

[bhg481]

No, not signed, Mally, that's the whole picture. You can see the pencil sketch lines on the original, which makes me think it's a real place not just a made-up picture. It's at least 75 years old, so not much chance the original artist is still around.

[bhg481]

I've always thought the water was a lake, not the sea, but it could be either.

[Zacs-Master]

Looks a bit like Abergavenny

[Mamyalynne]

My first thought was the Mourne Mountains, any Irish connections?

[bhg481]

Zacs - I can't see any water near Abergavenny on Google Earth but thanks anyway. I thought the small chapel on the hill might be a giveaway to someone.

[bhg481]

No Irish connections, Mally. One of my great grandparents lived in Glasgow for a while but he was from the other side of the family ie, maternal grandma owned the picture, paternal great grandfather lived in Scotland.

[Zacs-Master]

The chapel definitely looks Welsh.

[Canary42]

After taking into account Artist's licence , it is often very difficult to identify such scenes.

As a bit of fun, I shall shortly post another old painting, but where I know the location, which I will reveal later.

[237SJ]

The more I look at it, the more I think it's Ilfracombe. St Nicholas Chapel on the left, Pip n Jims church on the right, Hillsborough (the big hill in the background) and the cliffs of N Devon beyond.

[237SJ]

The steeple of Pip n Jims has even been painted the same

[Mamyalynne]

I think you have it 237, this scene but from a different angle.

http://walkinginthecountry.blogspot.com/2017/05/ilfracombe.html

[royfromaus]

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere Liverpool or Rome

[Canary42]

Wow Mamya, nice bit of detective work :-)

[237SJ]

I think it was painted from an area called the Capstone

[237SJ]

(The Capstone is the green hill in the link above)

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, deffo ilfracombe. Striped slate roof on the church tower. This is closest modern day view I can find.
https://ibb.co/SRRvBXz

[gness]

Well done 237 and Mamya!

[237SJ]

I shoud flipping know where it is, I was born there! (Didn`t recognise the foreground at first)