Another Mystery Artwork (Oil Painting)

[ambridgebuckskins]

Here is an oil painting that l recently come across. No idea of the history at all.

Its a large piece 98cms x 72cms.

Artist signed Faber.

Now kid me if l'm wrong but those boats sailing on the water - are they not all different time periods? l can see a paddle steamer there along with the clipper ship.

Any leads or hints muchly welcomed.

Will get a close up of the siggie in a second.

[ambridgebuckskins]

[nett_nanny]

That must be Mr Faber of Faber-Castell   No????

[cq_electrical]

If so, I'd have expected the artwork to have been done in pencil. 🙂

[nett_nanny]

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@cq_electrical wrote:
If so, I'd have expected the artwork to have been done in pencil. 🙂

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Just joshing but of course you knew that 

[cq_electrical]

Were you really? I thought you were being deadly serious!

[ambridgebuckskins]

Those Faber pencils have made google search a bit of a nightmare when looking for this artist's name.

l've tried blocking out pencil, crayon, pens, brushes....ARGH!

[bsal6160]

Joachim Faber or

Jesse Faber or

Portrait of an Old Woman by J. Faber  

or Johann Faber

[imastawka]

This guy looks about the right date   

Karl Gottfried Traugott Faber (German, 1785-1863)

Can't track down any actual signatures though.

You might try here:  http://www.artistssignatures.com/artistsbyname.php?letter=f

Good luck

[siddieswans]

To my mind this looks like a relatively modern pastiche of sea-going vessels of another era, along the lines of Freedman's Cavalcade of Transport. Naturally I may be completely wrong.