• Jennifer - bought Westminster and the Tower Bridge, London in very old framesfor £2 each - what a bargain!
• Carol -has some interesting feedback, she found a beautiful watercolorof Trafalgar Square London at one of her local thrift shops. When she researched the artist the name was spelt differently but the style looks so similar. It is signed Jan Korthaws. In the left hand corner is
  1965 Donald Art Co Inc N.Y. No 4620
  Printed in Holland. Does anyone else have differently spelt signatures and are these all prints?
• Gretta - lives in New Zealand, and has recently put together a family history. She had some old framed family wedding photos tucked away, which she wanted to have copied. Her husband removed the old frames, one being more than 50 years in age. Behind the photo they discovered what appears to be either a water colour or a print of Jan Korthals. The picture itself is approx 6 x 4 inches and attached to card board.They suspect that the picture has come from her grandmother’s farm house in Ireland, and she may have put the photo over the top of the picture. The surrounding board, and the picture are somewhat yellowed with the passing of time. It is titled in the bottom left hand corner
  Grand Place Bruxelles and signed Jan Korthals. The picture is of a market square scene obviously in Brussels.
  Does anyone know more about this picture? grettam@cooltainers.com
• Patricia - has a signed print of Henley, UK which is not a common title.
• Luciana - has 3 watercolours Baden baden, Il Duome; Notre Dame found in Galverston, Texas. Beautiful & special because she has travelled & seen these for herself
• Melissa: has 4 numbered prints entitled Towns of the Netherlands, still in the original portfolio. Does anyone have any similar or other information would be appreciated rrsvs@tstar.net
• T&C.B are very excited as they have inherited many prints and oils, a lot of Jan Korthals. The father probably know Korthals personally. Hopefully they will let us know about some key pieces once they have had time to evaluate the collection.
• Charley found 2 framed pictures showing Rotterdam & Gronongen from the water
• Victor has two - a view of river Schelde from left bank of old town & the street Suikkerui looking onto the cathedral?
• Ed found 2 in a flea market Atlanta, Georgia, USA.     
• Jerry in Austin,Texas, USA has 2 dutch prints since 1974.
• Susan has a Trafalgar Square print that was framed in Toronto, Canada.                      
• Taruna from India has 3 watercolours in the family.                                                   
• Can anyone help JJ identify a signed Korthals for $0.25 in a garage sale. On the back is: De is in de ogfhosh in Lfaaslem.                                             
• WS has 3 london prints framed in Chicago, USA.
• Ed: Four years ago I married my wife in Venice! At that time I didn't know anything about the Jan Korthals painting made in Venice. A few years later my mother moved so her house was sold and I got a few boxes with old stuff. which I was going to give to a colleague of mine. The first thing that came out of a box was a book and inside was the Jan Korthals painting of Venice! What a surpise! Luckily I kept this and it is now hanging in the hallway of my house. I don't know how this Jan Korthals painting came to be in the book or how long it had been there! It's a painting from 1964 and maybe my parents were on holiday in Italy or they bought it elsewhere, I really don't know. But I'm very proud of this painting because in one off the houses on the right hand side is the house where my wife and I got married in 2000!    - now was that fate or was that fate!

• Rosemary: contacted us to say that Van Weyenbergh Fine Arts Inc. advised that a watercolour colour by Jan Korthals would be worth about $1830.00 USD.
• Pam: contacted us to tell us about the 2 framed pictures she found: " Just as a bit of background information, my husband and I bought these two together at a market in Leeds last year for £5 each. We bought them,obviously because we liked them, and consider it to be money well spent irrespective of wether the artist was known or not. Also written on the back of one of them someone had put "These two watercolours of Bruge Belgium were purchased for 100 cigarettes apiece in Maldegen Belgium in 1945" and was signed Ray Andrews 485 (NZ) Sqn RAF (at the time). I'm not too sure of the 'Maldegen' but that's what it looked like. As to them being called watercolours, they look to me like the images you say are prints, but either way we like them. The 'picture' area on both is 28cm x 19cm, and inscribed on the pictures are the words Groenereie, Brugge (that's the bridge one) and Burgmet Bunde Ezelstraat, Brugge on the other, together with the artist's signature. I hope I have read the writing correctly".

Burgmet Bunde Ezelstraat, Brugge

Groenereie, Brugge

• Philip: has advised us that at the Boyen-Y Hospital in Holland there is a large painting that the hospital commissioned Jan Korthals to paint.
• AP: has 3 prints of London. These were published by Donald Art Company, New York but printed in Holland. Now we have tried to locate information about this publisher before, with no luck. We have assumed that they either closed down or were bought out. If it was the former then unless they sold the copyrights to the images in their portfolio then none of these could be re-published for 70 years after the firms demise.

  
  

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