Child Painted Santa Watercolor Drawing in Chip Carved Tramp Frame antique painting I love little portraits

I love little portraits

I'm not sure the maker

and there is an iron hook near the front

Froebel Gifts 2 through 6 (aka "the Building Gifts") are wood blocks in various shapes and quantities

Child Painted Santa Watercolor Drawing in Chip Carved Tramp Frame antique painting I love little portraitsI love this watercolor, and the tramp frame, and think they make a happy marriage. (Forgive the glare in photos.) Santa (who happily looks more like dad as Santa than "Santa") was executed on orange construction paper mounted to green, dated Dec. 13 and signed AW at the bottom left. Fabulous beard, fabulous boots, fabulous decorated tree (which Santa appears to be hailing), and this curiously sparse arrangement of objects underneath the tree a tiny