Selling original paintings on Ebay- anyone done?

[QueenoftheNights]

I've had a quick look and there are some....

I've a couple of 'nice' watercolours, one of which may be an antique, which I bought around 30 years ago. They are professional, not 'art club' amateur stuff. They are small landscapes, about 12 inches by 9 inches and nicely framed, one slightly abstract.

They just aren't my taste any more partly because the trend is for bigger and more neutral paintings.

I'm loathe to give them to charity but have no idea of what I'd get on Ebay. Think I paid around £50 each or maybe a bit more.

Any ideas?

Are they signed? If so, google the name as the price just might have gone up since you acquired them. If they are worth money, I would sell through an auctioneers rather than Ebay.

One def isn't- it has the name of the dealer on the back who I assume sold it to the gallery where I bought it and she has written 'artist unknown'. Hmm!

The other is a local artist in the north and perhaps the less 'professional' of the two in terms of technique but it's still good.

actually I'm being a bit dim- the name of the artist is on the back, but it's also the name of the river (Avon) and the way it's written looked like ANON.

I've googled the artist and some of her work is on Ebay and other auction sites for around £150 (slightly bigger frames.)

We have sold one or two but it is slow unless the artist is well known. We had a nice one of a flapper girl that did quite well on auction but country scenes have well and truly stuck. Mind you the prices most pictures by unknown artists get at real-life auctions is pretty abysmal too so not sure you will do much better there. To give you some perspective we paid the princely sum of £10 for an oil painting by the same artist as a picture we had previously paid £300 a few years before from an art shop. It was bigger too!

I know it's a pretty dismal market.

We gave several paintings belonging to my late MIL to an auction house and got barely anything for them.

ive sold paintings on ebay for the charity i work for , i did loads of research into the artist they were by, including any completed ones on ebay, the more info you can give the better chance of getting a decent price for them, and did them as collect only as paintings are a nightmare to post you need so much packaging, or go to a local auction house and get them to give you an idea of value now

Thanks!