Thomas Jefferson (I Presume) in Red Coat, Naive Ink and Watercolor in Antique Frame framed object with a little (original) messiness

with a little (original) messiness to the paint job and scuffs here and there

And I think it is also the heaviest

6 1/2” x 5” x 2"

no presents this year

some of them showing carved plugs

Thomas Jefferson (I Presume) in Red Coat, Naive Ink and Watercolor in Antique Frame framed object with a little (original) messinessI take this as a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, who loved a red coat; I don't know for sure, but at a moment when it feels like sight of the founding vision for the United States should not be lost, I'll call him so. Here looking especially quiet and contemplative, with what I take for wall paper pattern surrounding him, and, aside from his rich red coat and gray hair, looking almost as if about to fade into the ether. Under glass in a nice old wooden