Antique Hand-painted Full Plate Tintype, Woman with Pink Rose and Feathered Hat old whimsy now nicely faded but with

now nicely faded but with darker red around the perimeter

it features alternating bands of a pale blonde and a darker tan grass

where heads and figures and chickens and more commingle

I realized how much better it is to have them all together

because I can’t resist them

Antique Hand-painted Full Plate Tintype, Woman with Pink Rose and Feathered Hat old whimsy now nicely faded but withThis one is much better in person the intensity of her blue green painted coat is really rather otherworldly. I never paid a whole lot of attention to painted tintype portraits before, but recently found a few in the collection of an artist near me (which was also the source of the Mexican fotoculturas I've recently sold and some charcoal photo portraits I have yet to list, too) and I've become quite taken with them. The flat, matte gray ground really