Run the image through a search engine

Save the image first. A screenshot works if a download will not. Open Google Lens or TinEye and drop it in. The engine matches the picture itself, not words, so a badly titled page stops mattering. Crop to the painting if the page included frames, text or furniture, because those elements dilute the match. Expect a shortlist rather than a single hit, and expect some of it to be unrelated.

Then add words. Search the artist's name with terms likely to appear on a print listing, such as landscape, river, or the scene's rough subject. Trenerry painted Australian landscapes for much of his career, so rural and pastoral terms narrow the field. If the original page is still in your browser history, that is faster than any search. Check history before anything else.

Once you have the title, compare editions rather than grabbing the first result. A work like Bank landscape as a framed poster will appear under slightly different titles on different sites, and cropping varies. Our guide to buying high-quality Trenerry prints online covers what separates a faithful reproduction from a washed-out one.

What to do when the search fails

Some images resist matching. Low resolution, heavy filters, or a private seller's photo can defeat the engines. In that case describe the work instead. Note the subject, the palette, the season it suggests, and any signature you can read. A search for the artist's name plus two or three of those details often lands on a catalogue page or a gallery record that the image search missed.

Be honest with yourself about dead ends. If the image came from a social media post or a closed marketplace listing, the exact print may no longer be available anywhere. That is not a failure of your searching. The practical move is to find the same painting issued by a different print seller, since popular landscapes are usually carried by more than one outlet.

It also helps to know what the artist actually painted before you chase a title. Our overview of Trenerry's most common subjects gives you the vocabulary to search with. And if the hunt stalls entirely, a comparable edition such as The Family of Trees framed poster or By the River Eure framed poster may serve the same wall as well as the one that got away.

Naming the work correctly once found

Print sellers title inconsistently. The same painting can appear as a numbered catalogue title, a descriptive title invented by the seller, or a translation. When you find a match, note the title, the seller, the size and the date you saw it. Two of those four details are usually enough to find it again, or to describe it accurately in an email to a seller.

One caution. Reproduction editions and original works are different markets, and a title that matches an original in a collection does not guarantee a print of it exists. If your image was of an original hanging somewhere, check whether any seller has licensed it before assuming you can buy one. Most Trenerry landscapes in circulation as prints are his more pastoral scenes, which is where your search is likeliest to succeed.