It looks like an original charcoal or crayon portrait of Theodore Roosevelt done on Feb 1912...don't understand Kristiana, or what appears to be a signature. But I like it!! A LOT!

Kristiania was the former name of Oslo, Norway, from 1877 to 1925. Your portrait is made in a manner very typical of Northern European and Russian art in the late 19th-early 20th centuries.

Apparently there was a Norwegian artist Mons Breidvik: Brooklyn Museum exhibition announcement

Wow....now you need to get a magnifying glass on that to see if it's a photographic repro....but I'll bet it isn't. then get to a good dealer to find what it's worth.

Also found this portrait of Calvin Coolidge

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Yes I think it is real. How would I know if an appraiser is "good"? LOL

Thrift store. 1$. plus tax.

Is there not a good way to just have it appraised online? Assuming it is an original of course.

I hate you!!!!!
Look at it with a magnifying glass....if you see little dots, it's a repro ( but the freekin frame is worth a buck!) I am pretty sure it's original....as it would not be important enough to reproduce>
Look up portraits by Mons Breidvik. Of course you won't fine this one....because if I am correct there was only one....but from the selling price of other's you will get an idea of a possible selling price.

I don't really see any prices. What site do you recommend?

A little on line stuff....he also did lithos which were reproed......but I don't think this is one.
Also it is very early in his carrear....before he came to New York I suspect.....
The Brooklyn Museum exhibited a lot of his later stuff.....contact them.....and please post what you have found!

Is this the same artist? https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/28201328_mons-breidvik-1881-pencil-signed-and-numbered

Here is another appraiser's site with a charcoal of a girl (last one down).

http://stuartholman.com/fall05/artusa.html

The picture of the man with the sail boats is a signed and numbered litho ...meaning there was an "edition"...not just one but many prints from the same sketch. The one of the girl is not the same artist.

My error....the little girl is the same artist.... estimated at $100 to $200....but I'll bet Teddy would bring more.

As far as contacting the museum I am not sure who I would ask to speak to. I don;t really imagine them giving me a price quote over the phone either most likely. ;p

Tell whoever answers the phone that you have what you think is an original Mons Breiedvik charcoal drawing and ask who you could talk to to determine if it's what you think it is. then when you have determined it's real ask how you would find out about selling it, if that's what you want to do.
Or how about emailing a picture to the Montclair new jersey Museum and see where that takes you....and also email the Brooklyn Museum.
Are you wanting to sell it? Or just know the value. I think I can safely say the value is not more than $300 ( pretty good return on a buck!!)

Yes I am hoping to sell it.

Please note the Museum does not appraise artworks or offer any evaluations. Resources for finding an appraiser include the Appraisers Associationwww.appraisersassociation.org and American Society of Appraisers www.appraisers.org.

Thats what the Montclair Art Museum has to say about that. I will wait and see about a reply from the Brooklyn museum.

Reply from the Brooklyn museum.

"Thank you for your interest in the Brooklyn Museum. Unfortunately, per the guidelines of the American Alliance of Museums, we cannot appraise or authenticate works of art. Regarding an appraisal of or more information, I suggest you contact Christie’s and Sotheby’s. Their specialists can be of more help"

Find a consignment shop....

I doubt the Brooklyn museum would have suggested Christie's or Sotheby's if they thought it would be a waste of time to those 2 auction houses.

I'd contact them before sending to a consignment shop! That's for dang sure!

As a once collector of the Norwegian artist, Mons Breidvik (1881 - 1950), I recognize this as an original drawing by the artist. I have other similar drawings in my collection of different well-known personalities in Norway.

Being a one-off portrait, probably on the occasion of one of Teddy Roosevelt's visits to Norway at the time, it is signed and dated in Kristiansand on February 1912. It also has the place where it was probably drawn, "Andvake-kontoret" or Andvake-office (probably Andvake Association's offices in Kristiansand (today called Oslo). Andvake has been a cultural forum there since 1864 and it was therefore pretty likely that they had such prominent visitors as Teddy Roosevelt, as they had others such as Henrik Ibsen signing their visitor's book.

If it was a signed and numbered Lithograph, it would normally have the word "Lito" and be numbered out of a limited edition printed by the artist himself (for example 18/150) and also signed M.B. So in this case it is obviously not a lito and most certainly not a photographic reproduction, because the artist was never that popular to have his work "mass produced" through cheaper reproductions. He did his own reproductions to serve the limited market he had locally in Norway, normally using his charming pictures of children bathing or landscape pictures of rural Norway, reproduced either as Lithographics or Etchings, in limited editions, pencil numbered and signed by the artist.

Breidvik has never reached heights in any public sales and his lithograhics and etchings are usually found reasonably cheap on the market in Norway for anything between $50 - $150, depending on popularity. A one-off portrait like yours would maybe bring more if there was particular interest in the subject matter.

I believe the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, previously bought in work by Mons Breidvik, although I can't find them on the museum's online records, so maybe they would be interested in this one-off portrait, it being of a former US President. Who knows? But it would certainly not be a fortune, that I can assure you....