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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. Founded 2014 · 550.7K members

551.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 25.6K upvotes, which works out to 46 per 1,000 members.

46peak upvotes per 1,000 members
551.8Kmembers
25.6Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
104posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Gallery 65% Image 35%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Likely Solved 42 Solved 28 Unsolved 18 Hall of Fame 7 Older Unsolved 4 Likely Solved - Decor 3 Resubmit Prompted 1 Likely Solved - Fakes 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Bought at an antique shop for $100

↑ 25.6K 💬 535 gallery 2024

Found in dead guys trash in Boston

↑ 19.4K 💬 1.3K image 2025

Forgot to take a picture of the placard! @ the National Gallery

↑ 14.3K 💬 137 image 2024

Mom got at goodwill 25 years ago

↑ 10.7K 💬 329 gallery 2024

My sister found this in a Goodwill years ago

↑ 7.5K 💬 85 gallery 2024

Received this at a white elephant gift exchange. No signature, nothing on the back.

↑ 7.1K 💬 304 image 2024

6'x4' Goodwill Horse painting

↑ 6.9K 💬 331 gallery 2025

My mother in law offered this to me, said she got it from a friend

↑ 6.6K 💬 170 image 2024

Any ideas on what this is? My Dad left it to me.

↑ 6K 💬 230 image 2025

Found at a thrift store in SD, painted on black velvet. Paid $80

↑ 5.3K 💬 135 image 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/WhatIsThisPainting, in numbers

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What is r/WhatIsThisPainting?
r/WhatIsThisPainting ("A subreddit to help you identify artists & works of art...") describes itself this way: 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. It was founded in 2014 and has 550.7K members.
How many members does r/WhatIsThisPainting have?
r/WhatIsThisPainting has about 551.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 104 of its posts; the biggest reached 25.6K upvotes, which is 46 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/WhatIsThisPainting?
"Bought at an antique shop for $100" reached 25.6K upvotes and 535 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/WhatIsThisPainting.
What subreddits are similar to r/WhatIsThisPainting?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/complaints.
What kind of posts do best on r/WhatIsThisPainting?
Of the posts we hold, 65% are gallery posts and 35% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/WhatIsThisPainting?
Across 104 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 16:00 UTC (4.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 19:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes), Monday at 02:00 UTC (3.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/WhatIsThisPainting?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/WhatIsThisPainting has 3.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 2 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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