Nice painting. Biographical details and signature examples for Louis Henry seem to be thin on the ground unless you’re a subscriber to one of the art sites that provide such information. Auction records show a highest price of about $1,500 dollars for an original but with many well below that. It would be worth trying to track down the product mark on the canvas stretcher to see if it can be attributed or dated. Looks to be an anchor with something else across it, but it’s not very clear.
Good score on the jewellery, but the reflections in the picture make it hard to read with respect to maker and possible date... unless you have already tracked it down.
The needlepoint is modern and from a kit. The scene is adapted from a painting by the American artist Charles Wysocki, Jr. Mostly his works depicted American life in the horse & buggy era and he widely commercialised his artwork for use on collectibles, as wall décor, for greetings cards, calendars, jigsaw puzzles and embroidery kits. I’ve seen this same needlework touted on fleabay as ‘rare’ and ‘Victorian’ at ridiculous prices but both claims are false. Wysocki was born in 1928 and died in 2002. Those kits were mass-produced well into the last part of the 20th Century and I wouldn't be surprised if they're still being made.
