Antique Hand-painted Full Plate Tintype, Woman with Pink Rose and Feathered Hat old whimsy it features alternating bands of

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

and just the sort of early theorem painting I am always wanting to find

because I can’t resist them

5 5/8 x 3 9/16 and in good condition

Antique Hand-painted Full Plate Tintype, Woman with Pink Rose and Feathered Hat old whimsy it features alternating bands ofThis 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