Antique oil painting age and possible value

Found this painting at a thrift store, it looks Victorian to me. Measures 10" x 8". It is signed, W. J. Edmondson. Any info about the age, artist or value would be much appreciated.

 

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Askart: William John Edmondson
Born in Norwalk, Ohio, William John Edmondson was a painter of portraits and landscapes. He was born in Norwalk, Ohio in 1868. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Robert Vonnoh and with William Merritt Chase in New York City. He also studied at the Academy Julian in Paris with Jules Lefebvre.

He spent most of his career in Cleveland, Ohio and traveled West frequently, painting in California and in 1950, settling in Monrovia

 

I think that exact painting sold (or maybe didn't sell) at auction a couple of years ago: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/48569592_wj-edmondson-landscape-19th-c

 

yup.....same one !!

 

Sold for $15 + 10% premium Liveauctioneers October 2016.

 

no wonder it ended up in a thrift..........

 

as you all like to say...... worth what someone is willing to pay for it....!!

 

If someone with all that training painted this, he probably should have taken a different career path.

 

Sorry @Daniel oshaughnessy
What a strange co-inky-dinky that you came across this!
Sorry for the outcome

 

The comps on this artist were so strange... He was born in 1868, so this MIGHT have been done by him in Ohio, but much later he emerged as a Californian artist.

Even given that, the "Californian" stage paintings attributed to him don't match up, side by side, as being by the same artist.

 

Haystacks were in those comps, but in a much different style.

 

Not his best work and dirty but he did have an eye for color (and a thing for haystacks.)

Debora