Painting, oil on canvas (attribution)
 

All the good times.
Prompt by author and time please.
In advance thank you all for the tip.
Size 53 x 79 cm oil on canvas.
It is interesting to any opinion, suggestion, a reference to the signature of the author.

Thank you very much.

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photo caption.

Time - most likely the third quarter of the 19th century, and even the fourth.

The place of writing - such as Central Europe.

The level of painting - an amateur, and the one below srednelyubitelskogo, but not much.

Perhaps an Italian artist Gaetano Dura (1805 - 1878)?

But not sure.
I now have no access to the database with the signatures ...


On the signature of the artist's watercolors referred to different ...

Yes, maybe, and Italy.

Well, if we take into account that most likely represented Lake Como, the version of SW.
John Preston is a very plausible:

Painting
 

Yes, very much like the place.

Painting
 

I wonder how much it will cost you a professional restoration.
Can someone tell me?

[QUOTE="arhitektor; 1977891 '] Can someone tell me?
[/QUOTE]

In the [URL="http://forum.artinvestment.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=45"]this section[/URL] ask around, there are restorers.

In 2008, a pair of "Vesuvius" that Dura had sold for 3.5 m pounds for Christie's.
By coloring similar, although this is not an argument: