Antiques Roadshow; Appraisal

This painting was given to my mother by a woman in lieu of a Kentucky. My grandparents were antique dealers and had an antique shop. And on one of the trips to gather items for the shop. She took my mother who was then 5 years old so they were in this house in a third storey attic and my mother sat down in front of a frameless picture. And. Adored it. And the lady was kind enough. To offer to give it to her. She was thrilled. But the condition of the gift was she could never ever sell it. She could only give it away. So. Sometime shortly after that my grandad framed it. And. When they were buying items for the Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller museum in Williamsburg they approached my grandmother to purchase this painting. And she was ready to do it. Being the astute business woman she was and my mother said No no no you can't do that. It has. Person it.

Was. Because she couldn't. When was that. What year was it about nine hundred thirty eight it's there and now. Well. This is. An exciting painting because it has all the elements of a folk art painting. It's on a wooden panel on broken glass. It's a child. And usually children are. Part fatty This is a three quarter length child. It has a wonderful Lacy bun and you know what the little boat was in it but the best part is this. I know you call this the hair with the scary eyes. But he is so terrific with those funny little eyes that his claws and then all this hand painted detail on this little stool. Look how funny her little arm is in comparison to her. And of course not that it is in proportion. Now some of the things that are. Affecting the painting it definitely needs to go to a good conservator there's something going on

here. I can see something going on here. It's under layers and layers of varnish and it probably should be reframed. It is unsigned and I've asked a few of my colleagues there isn't anybody that we can really attribute this painting to. But I think with a little research and more time you probably could attribute it to some known painter because there's only a few painters that actually painted on panel. And the data's 1830s. So it's a really nice early painting. I would say you know in today's market it's probably in the 30 to 40 thousand dollar range. However. Since this is not a family relative tell you she's not the most attractive child all right. And if she were a very attractive child with lace than the beau she's probably worth 60000. That's. Wonderful.