Charcoal portrait 30 x 40 Whats it worth?

My guy says the same thing and I do not see it lol

 

Says what?

 

the same thing.......!!

 

What same thing?
That reply wasn't with the comment it was meant for.
See?

 

maybe not...but her guy said " the same thing"....sooooo.....

 

Yes. About what?
There are other comments above mine.
That is why there are two options to reply.
One to a comment directly, the other to just add to the post.
See?

 

LOL komokwa is right the same thing lol

He says what you said king about the kids head hiding a buffalo. I do not see it though it looks proportioned to me lol

 

yes.....but i'm not being too serious here.....

 

2 reply options? I only see reply to thread?

 

Oh like that

 

I am thinking the artist on this one was a friend or hobbyist. Is there a directory that someone can look up 19th century artist? The ones I found on google do not have a M E Weaver.

 

It's huge.
Probably the first Bobble Head.

 

There are two.
This is a common confusion because the 'buttons' are microscopic.
One is at the lower right of the comment and intended for that comment. The other is at the bottom of the page and for any comment not directed at a specific comment.

 

Oh now I see Thank you king

 

This is compounded when a flurry of response happens in a thread.

 

My question may be overlooked due to the flurry
I am thinking the artist on this one was a friend or hobbyist. Is there a directory that someone can look up 19th century artist? The ones I found on google do not have a M E Weaver.

 

Wow...if such a thing exists ...I want to know about it !

 

I think you're right. Very possibly a family friend. S/he had some training but, given shaky grasp of perspective, unlikely to have been professional.

Debora

 

What about "Mrs ME Weaver, art teacher in Dallas College" in 1903?
http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn96088088/1903-09-25/ed-1/seq-2/#index=2&rows=20&words=Dallas+E+M+Weaver&sequence=0&proxtext="M+E+WEAVER"++DALLAS&y=19&x=14&dateFilterType=range&page=1

That would be fairly local for Spaulding, who lived in Salem.

Her first name was Mary, and her maiden name Whiteaker. She remarried two years later, to "William R. Carter ... a prosperous farmer of Yamhill county."
http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn96088088/1905-09-22/ed-1/seq-3/ocr.txt

Her middle name was Etta, and she is sometimes recorded as "Maryetta"
http://www.polkcountycemetery.org/whiteaker/records/pf_display_record.php?id=62

We know from the marriage announcement that Mary Etta Weaver was living in Newberg sometime between 1903 and 1905; and Newberg is given as WL Spaulding's home town in this Michigan University publication:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4UDOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq

 

Now that's what I am talking about. Wow great find ! I think this portrait has a cute little story when you add everything together Except the part about the head hiding buffalo lol Thank you guys and gals for all your help and super sleuthing. Not sure what to do with it yet but now I know its value. Is that frame a particular type or wood?