For your consideration…

A very charming American School of Art Mid Victorian “Mourning Portrait “

Measure 4.5” x5”

An elegant Hand-painted Portrait of a Lady

Paint on Gesso Wafer

Set into an enamel overpainted wooden frame with a convex glass

Silhouettes like this were often made to memorialize a loved one who had left the stage and

gone to the next act of life.

For your consideration… A very special matrimonial double figure portrait silhouettes

Set into a Birds Eye Maple Frame

Cut paper with over painted details

Recently as we summered in VT and traversed the hills and dales of the Green Mt State we found some amazing tatt like this very wonderful family portrait from a very interesting collection of American
Silhouettes from a collection that spanned a hundred years

Measures 8” x10” approximately, you know handmade antiques.

In very good condition…