Antique Western Oil on Canvas Painting Native American "The Captive" 1901 by Frank Paul Sauerwein Sculpture Large antique oil on canvas

Large antique oil on canvas

5" long X 6

The base of the dome and the rim of the cover having bands on interlaced silver inlay

Paper was rolled up to create small coils and then gilded or coloured to simulate metalwork

Antique Western Oil on Canvas Painting Native American "The Captive" 1901 by Frank Paul Sauerwein Sculpture Large antique oil on canvasSOLD A large American Western, Native American oil on canvas landscape, by Frank Paul Sauerwein (1871 1910), "The Captive", 1901. This large oil on canvas depicts a Native American brave captively tied to a tree stump and being viewed by a rival tribe, who are evidently deciding his fate. Behind the collected tribe of elders, braves and children are a pair of conical tipi dwellings, to the background are grazing horses and another group of native