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r/WhatIsThisPainting↗

A subreddit to help you identify artists & works of art...

A place to find out if you have a lost masterpiece or if it's just a garage sale treasure! Please, read the tips and rules in our sidebar before submitting.

554k subscribers1,133 posts / mo in Sep 2026981 authors / mosince 2014

r/WhatIsThisPainting has 554k members (+7.4% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,133 posts a month from 981 people. Top topics: Artist Signatures, Old Family Paintings and ThriftArtIdentify.

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+7.4%in 12 months · +1.4% in 3 months · +0.4% in 1 month
Oct 2026553k
Growing553k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/WhatIsThisPainting

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−37%vs Sep 2025 · −6.2% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.1k
QuieterPeaked at 2.8k in Jan 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/WhatIsThisPainting

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Artist Signatures11%
  2. Old Family Paintings8.8%
  3. ThriftArtIdentify7.5%
  4. Identify Paintings5.6%
  5. Identifying Artists and Paintings4.9%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Invaluable
  2. MutualArt
  3. WorthPoint
  4. eBay
  5. Wikimedia

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