Rosina Farmer, Charming 1851 Signed Ink and Watercolor Portrait in Profile in Original Frame gilded chinese export tea caddy once blackened but most of

once blackened but most of the black now gone

Some scratches to the black paint

quintessentially Tlingit geometric patterns remaining pretty well in tact

bred with a series of dames including "Starry"

probably dating to the 20s or 30s

Rosina Farmer, Charming 1851 Signed Ink and Watercolor Portrait in Profile in Original Frame gilded chinese export tea caddy once blackened but most ofI really love a 19th century miniature portrait, but much prefer a painted silhouette to a hollow cut one, as for me it is all about the details and feeling the presence of the hand. This one is is signed and dated (1851 it looks to me, 1850 something for sure) and attributed on the back of the frame as portraying a Rosina Farmer, noted as being 55 years old in 1865, so I presume in her early 40s here. I love her face, looking bright eyed and open and