I have to small oil paintings and will appreciate to verify painters
and to know more about them.
1. 8X11" painting on canvas, very colorful.It depict side of
lake(?)with siluete of a man ancoring small rowing boat, a big tree
and house like A frame.
I left lower corner signed :A. Lilb(?)y, no date.Frame is classic,
ornamental, gold leafed
 2.8.5X 7.5" oil painting in shadow box (Victorian frame).
Also side of lake/bay?, mirrow like water reflecting big tree on cost
edge, distant low hill, somewhat white cloudy sky. Color: shades of
grey and vague green. Painting done what looks like cardboard. Inner
very decorative frame is old golg color, placed in straigh 3/8"wooden
frame painted black, covered with glass. Back covered with brown
paper. No any number or name of framer.Signed
looks like: Ted? Williams? , or Williard .
 Both paintings were purchased at local auction house about 1980, price unknown

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Request for Question Clarification by chromedome-ga on 21 Apr 2004 19:58 PDT

If you have the ability to post images of these paintings online, that
would be a great help (upload the photos to a host site, then place a
link to the photo in your clarification).  A close-up of the signature
would be particularly helpful, as some references do include
facsimiles of artists' signatures.

-Chromedome

In my experience, these types of searches are difficult (I'm not a
researcher by the way).

Search engines are text, rather than visually based.  Typically, the
name of the artist and name of the piece make for good search
parameters.  If you can provide this information, your chances of
getting a decent answer increase 100 fold.

Without this type of information, its like trying to find a man with
blond hair and blue eyes in the telephone book.