American School Folk Art Painting of a Grist Mill in Snow

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.

DOA 21.25 x 24.5 in.

Purchased at a country auction from an old farmhouse in the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina.

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

Light surface grime and stable craquelure; some rubbing and wear to frame.