Art
Lesson
 Valerie:
Jeanette Langmann has an art lesson for us.
Jeanette Langmann: Well, Arthur Elsley and Frederick
Morgan were the top chocolate box Victorian painters and they were
so popular for their paintings of children and animals and today
their works in oil go for hundreds of thousands of dollars. And
this watercolour came in and he didn’t do a lot of watercolours,
he actually was shortsighted and has these opera glasses to view
his models.
Valerie:
Can you imagine? Just a sec! Let me have a look! Imagine being able
to create this!
Jeanette
Langmann: Well, exactly, this is very typical of the way he painted
in oils but watercolours are quite scarce.
 Valerie:
And you’ve got a book on him.
Jeanette
Langmann: I have a book on the artist and the owner of this work,
she wrote to him, the author of the book, and asked him about the
watercolour and he said undoubtedly it is by Elsley. But because
he didn’t paint a lot of watercolours – there’s
very, very few of them and they’re not very desirable…
Valerie: Well, if this were an oil, it would be
worth…
Jeanette
Langmann: Probably about a hundred to a hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
Valerie: Really! And because it’s a watercolour?
Jeanette Langmann: In this particular case, it’s
signed and everything, it’s only worth about seven thousand
dollars.
 Valerie:
So what’s the lesson – buy oils?
Jeanette
Langmann: Do a little bit of research. Don’t go jumping in
because this wouldn’t be the most, the best investment if
you were going to buy something unless you wanted something by the
artist. I would go for an oil, but a lot of people couldn’t
afford it.
Valerie:
(laughs) Thank you.
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