American School Folk Art Painting

Oil on canvas, monogrammed and dated in the lower right "M. S. R. / 1853," presented in the original gilt frame inscribed "Edgeworth" on the verso.

Purchased by the consignor at a country auction from an old farmhouse in the Yadkin Valley, NC. This painting was likely by a family member and depicts a grist mill in the Yadkin Valley.

A charming winter scene with figures admiring a frozen grist mill. The painting in the style of George Henry Durrie and Currier & Ives.

Stable craquelure.

$400 - 600