"Mayeur" is Adrien-Charles Le Mayeur de Merprès

Maison Jules, from Ghent, Belgium, sells on 27 November 2016 a "Mayeur" Seaview estimated at 200 to 300 Euro.

It is a typical work of Adrien-Charles Le Mayeur de Merprès (1844-1923), an early Belgian impressionist painter who is best known for this type of seaview with a low horizon and lots of clouds.

Artsignaturedictionary.com gives this type of signature incorrectly to his son, the painter Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merprès (1880-1958). If only...

The correct signature for Adrien Jean can be seen on other paintings. Adrien Jean seems to have had an unremarkable career until he moved to Bali in the early 1930s. He there met the love of his life, a Balinese dancer who became his model and a few years later his wife (though she was his junior by more than 30 years), and starting painting the life and woman of Bali in a colourful, vibrant style. He became well-respected and succesful and his house in Bali is now a museum.

Works by Adrien-Jean, which are quite different from the works of his father, can be very expensive: earlier this year Christie's Hong Kong sold his "Women around the lotus pond" for a whopping 3.9 million US$.

Works by Adrien-Charles in the same vein as the one for sale here, on the other hand, fetch between 600 Euro (for smaller ones like this) and 5,000 Euro (for the larger works, e.g. at Drouot 2007), so this one should be worth 500 to 800 Euro. Still considerable above estimate though.

So it does matter a bit which Le Mayeur, father or son, painted a work you are buying... 

UPDATE: sold for 200 Euro, cheap!