Miniature 1840s Folk Art Painted Portrait of Gentleman in Daguerreotype Frame textures folded over at the ends

folded over at the ends to hold it together

but I've never seen another joined pair like this

The bottle here is long gone

I have no idea of its origins

” but have certainly become as popular among adults as children

Miniature 1840s Folk Art Painted Portrait of Gentleman in Daguerreotype Frame textures folded over at the endsThe 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