SOLD Beautiful Baby! C. 1850s Folk Art Oil Painting on Un-stretched S.N Dodges, NY Canvas blue and gold as if it were put

as if it were put to work

I didn't know much of anything about this when I purchased it

but really it's a pretty fabulous folk art piece and I'd definitely keep it for myself

and tableware

a pasted verse along with a dedication inside (looks like this was made for Nellie)

SOLD Beautiful Baby! C. 1850s Folk Art Oil Painting on Un-stretched S.N Dodges, NY Canvas blue and gold as if it were putI'm not someone who goes gaga over babies, but I did swoon when I spotted this one quite a charmer of a painting and quite a radiant, full of life and breath, child! Also nice that the back of the un stretched canvas is stamped "S. N Dodges Artist and Painter's Supply Store, 189 Chatham St, corner of Oliver St, N York, which seems to have operated 1820s 1850s or so (as per the Met Museum) so pretty certainly of that period. Better in hand, quite