SOLD Beautiful Baby! C. 1850s Folk Art Oil Painting on Un-stretched S.N Dodges, NY Canvas blue and gold with an Elvis stance and

with an Elvis stance and attitude

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

beautifully constructed with mortise and tenon joints

as if it were put to work

and tableware

SOLD Beautiful Baby! C. 1850s Folk Art Oil Painting on Un-stretched S.N Dodges, NY Canvas blue and gold with an Elvis stance andI'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