Antique Frontier Scene (?) Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame silver hardware 12 color plates by John

12 color plates by John R

I love whoever made this puzzle so much--such a clever and brilliantly executed thing

including regarding factors such as site

and perhaps especially through zooming in on his face with those big blue eyes and loose red lips

Antique Frontier Scene (?) Watercolor in Period Gilded Frame silver hardware 12 color plates by JohnI'm not entirely certain what is going on in this evocative little watercolor, but I really really love it, with its big dark sky enveloping what looks like a western frontier structure to me, and cowboy looking figures standing next to what I assume is a fire. Considered together with the deer watercolor surely by the same artist, which I just listed, my guess might be that these were done as first hand sketches out west, late 19th century or so,