Miniature 1840s Folk Art Painted Portrait of Gentleman in Daguerreotype Frame textures and one which does the

and one which does the trick of scratching an itch very well indeed

The bottle here is long gone

” but have certainly become as popular among adults as children

Ernst Lorenzen was a forester/naturalist from Denmark and Alma an Acadian from Cocagne

I have no idea of its origins

Miniature 1840s Folk Art Painted Portrait of Gentleman in Daguerreotype Frame textures and one which does theThe flat sky aqua blue ground on this c. 1840 miniature portrait painting really does it for me, combined with its perfect housing, as it always has been, in this 1 6th plate daguerreotype case, the gold foiled mat of which really makes his gold watch chain pop. To me he looks like a banker, keen and steady and perhaps a bit smug about some wise investments, too and quietly plotting what's next! The small water stain running from his eye to the edge