I thought nothing of horse pic in my husband’s family home – Antiques Roadshow says desirable style makes it worth $75k

A WOMAN was shocked to learn a family heirloom is worth thousands while appearing on Antiques Roadshow.

The antique art piece had been in her husband’s family for decades.

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The guest appeared in an episode of Antiques Roadshow from Palm Springs, California.

She showed off a Charles Schreyvogel horse painting that her mother-in-law had acquired.

It had been hanging in the house where her husband was raised for years.

“I don’t know when she acquired it, but the linkage is that her grandmother was the relationship to the wife of Schreyvogel,” the guest said.

“Because it’s a horse, my mother-in-law would refer to it as ‘the work horse.'”

Appraiser Debra Force said that Schreyvogel was a “very important” Western artist who was “known for painting frontier and particularly the cavalry.”

The well-known painter was born in New York City to German immigrant parents on January 4, 1861.

Force said Schreyvogel “was very artistic from an early age.”

She revealed that he had worked as a pipe carver, a goldsmith, and a lithographer when he was young.

“And at some point, a group of patrons saw his talent and decided to pay for his way to go to Munich to study in art school.”

Schreyvogel attended the Munich school for around three years and was “very infatuated with the West” when he returned to the US.

Since the artist couldn’t pay to travel out West at the time, he went to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows and would “model his works on those.”

However, in the 1890s, he raised enough money to travel out West, mainly visiting Colorado and Arizona, and was soon married.

“He was not able to sell many of the paintings that he did out West initially, and so he did portrait miniatures to make money in order to support himself and his family.”

In 1901, he earned acclaim for one of his sculptures at the National Academy of Design in New York, “and it was at that point his work was recognized, which was really quite a coup for him,” Force said.

The expert appraiser then shared that Schreyvogel was a painter and a scultor who “really painted very few oils.”

She revealed that he made fewer than 100 oil paintings and was painter Frederic Remington’s “chief rival”

After Remington died in 1909, Schreyvogel “became the premier Western painter” before his death in 1912.

Force said the guest’s painting was probably made close to 1900.

The guest then revealed that the piece was appraised sometime between 2010 and 2016 and was said to be worth around $20,000.

Force then said that number was low and called Schreyvogel’s work “rare” and “highly desirable among Western collectors.”

She valued the Schreyvogel “A Lone Horse” oil painting at $75,000.

The smiling guest was visibly floored and speechless before responding, “Wow.”

Surpised, she asked, “No, really?”

Force responded, “His work is just so special, and this is so beautiful,” adding that the fact that it had been in the same family for so long “makes it very enticing for collectors.”

The giddy and excited guest exclaimed, “This is wonderful!”

OTHER ANTIQUES

Many people have been stunned by their items’ high values while appearing on Antiques Roadshow.

One woman was floored when she learned her $35 Pokémon cards were actually worth $10,000.

Another was in disbelief when she was told her great-grandmother’s jewelry was worth $30,000.

A third woman was shocked to learn her grandmother’s old clock was valued at $20,000.

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