Woman with Cross and Blue Velvet Cape, 19th C Watercolor Portrait in Period Frame double vase these came in plastic sleeves

these came in plastic sleeves with slots that fit them exactly

A marvelous antique folk art box

but might later consider breaking up if I can't sell as a group

to essays on the work of diverse artists (painter Charles Pequin

contented looking one with horizontal slits across the eyes (resting

Woman with Cross and Blue Velvet Cape, 19th C Watercolor Portrait in Period Frame double vase these came in plastic sleevesThe more time I spend with this portrait the more I love it, and love her a bit of a homely woman, perhaps, who doesn't look especially glad to be having her portrait painted, but such is clearly part of her lot in life as a woman of means, and she looks as if used to enduring things she doesn't especially like! 1820s 30s would be my guess based especially on her cape, bodice and hair style, beautifully housed in what I might guess is her original