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I got these from my grandmother who had them for a long time. As long as I can remember actually. I've seen ones like it that were from the 1800's, but I am not sure about this one. I know she had it re framed in the 70's professionally. They both look great. They are yellowing a tiny bit and have a few spots here and there but they look great considering they may be very old. I think this may be a famous artist because it is very well done. The brush strokes are lovely and these paintings truly are a work of art. One of the ones that was comparably similar was very well drawn as well and had a lot of the same attributes: mountains, a body of water, sail boats, etc. People commented on the painting and said that it was Chinese and made to look like a Japanese painting. Any help is appreciated. If anyone could translate the symbols and maybe the artist name in the stamp that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

thanks for all the pictures. the painting in your first seven pictures has only a title: "xi shan qing xiu", or "Clear and Elegant Streams and Mountains". the seal doesn't identify the artist, it reads "hua yin" or "painting seal".

the painting in your last seven pictures is by a different artist and is signed and dated. the signature is quite hard to read because the handwriting is very stylized, and the seal is hard to read as well because of some blurring or extraneous ink that gets in the way of seeing its two characters, which in any case are different from the two characters with which the artist has signed his name. the right column is the date, which reads "dingsi nian", a year in the cyclical calendar corresponding to 1977.

Thanks for the response. I think the first one is a little older then the second one. I am surprised that it is only from the 70's. I guess it doesn't have much value then.

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