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Hello everyone, wow, so many responses. Thank you all for your interest
arthurk, you have the right man. As far as I am aware he was not on active service, he was a mining engineer/ manager. He was also an amateur photographer so could have painted this from either a photo or sketches. We have several old glass plate negatives of his but none similar to the painting. Charles Herbert was my father in law's grandfather. F-in-L has recently acquired several paintings & sketches from a distant relative and was told this painting was Silverdale. There are family connections to that area but the scenery doesn't seem right to me for Silverdale, a predominantly limestone area.
We haven't taken the painting out of it's modern frame, only got it last night, there may be something on the back to help, he has written on some of the sketches
Carol, thanks, a poor photo of mine, trying to reduce glare from the glass!
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