Fake or fortune?

Definitely not fake but a bargain Facebook Marketplace purchase I made today. These two pictures of my home town are by the artist Robert Morley, painted in 1885. The person selling them acquired them from an antique shop in Petworth about 30 years ago in exchange for some work she carried out for them.

I’m going to do a bit of research as I’d like to find out a bit more about them. There are stickers on the back showing the pictures were at one point held in a department store depository in Taunton, so one thing I’d like to know Is what they were doing there and who their owner was at that and other points. The curse of being a researcher: incurable curiosity!