Can anyone ID the artist's name?

[ambridgebuckskins]

Four framed prints of vintage years. All four have horses, camels and rugged looking men near wagons.

Same artist's name on each of them.

I've searched for Booth and Boott so far and gotten no where.

[ambridgebuckskins]

[siddieswans]

Is it possible to see the other 2 signatures? I agree that Googling brings up nothing, which seems unusual given these look very professional prints. I can only guess that maybe the first letter is not B?

I know it does not help but these look to me prints of early Australian explorers; the third one looks like Crossing the Blue Mountains; the camels could be Burke & Wills? Leichhardt?

[ambridgebuckskins]

Sure.

They are all framed behind glass.

All the paper backing over the wood backboard is aged and bug eaten (the wood behind them is okay).

They all had inches of dust on them as the house they were in has not been used for at least 10 years that l know of (and it would of been longer no doubt).

They are all a decent size, frames are 48cms x 38cms and on the heavy side.

All the horse riders have swags behind their saddles, and seem to all carry a rifle.

The first one (above) with the men, horses and camels on the beach, two of the riders towards the back on the sandbar appear to be in war green and have military saddles on (l've stared at them alot).

The second one (above), the camels pullng the wagon are in horse harness. Not that l've seen camel harness but the artist has painted the camel harness exactly as a horse one is set up.

I've even tried to ID the breed of dogs in the 3rd print.

Totally baffling.

[siddieswans]

Totally flummoxed. Certainly look like the first letter is a B. Come on you clever clogs out there.

[ambridgebuckskins]

Another reason why l think Australian and not American is that all the saddles are stock saddles. Not a western horn on any of them so thats a bit of a help.

[bsal6160]

Possibly, Ruth 'Rooth' Robertson (1951-.)?

[siddieswans]

Don't think so - here is an example of her work and signature

[bsal6160]

Oh well, I am all out of names then.

[ambridgebuckskins]

We have some further information!!

A wonderful member here has let me know what the subject matter is.

Brothers Alexander and John Forrest from Western Australia, early explorers.

John Alexander has a lot of info about him online so was able to read all about his horse and camel trips.

Yesterday l had to go back to the house to clean out another load and found another 2 framed prints.

There was a family member there so l asked if they knew anything about them. They seemed to think there was 6 prints in the set (which l have all of them now) and that they were off a large calendar bought out by Federal Insurance many years ago. There was only the one calendar given to this Insurance building in town (now demolished) and the owners got the prints framed.

Still this 'Booth' remains a mystery but every little bit of the puzzle helps. l've sent a message off to the Forrest Centre to ask if they know anything about them.

Thankyou to all that have helped with the search, and yes, even wrong guesses, because you all took your time to search.

Will put up the photos of the remaining two prints shortly when l know 4 inches of dust off them.