Hand-tinted Antique Tintype Portrait of Handsome Man with Wild Hair Chewing Twig South Carolina landscape with its extraordinarily expressive face

with its extraordinarily expressive face and posture

but the wood panel on the backside is easily removed to fill the frame with other things

some surface scratching to the paint on his front and aging to the paint in general

this piece is very much in the manner of the work of famous father and son Mexican folk artists Aurelio and Francisco Flores from Izúcar de Matamoros--legendary for their elaborate "tree of life" candlesticks and candleabra

This piece was designed by Anneliese Beckh

Hand-tinted Antique Tintype Portrait of Handsome Man with Wild Hair Chewing Twig South Carolina landscape with its extraordinarily expressive faceI have quite a crush on this young man, who I have to think was a bit of an eccentric, or rather a rebel, with this fantastic unkempt hair, terrific plaid trousers and look closely a twig hanging poking out of the corner of his mouth. At least I assume it is a chewing twig, though it looks a bit like a cherry stem, in which case I'd like to think he has cleverly knotted the other end with his tongue!:) Late 19th century I believe, with his pink cheeks