Antique English pre-Raphaelite Portrait Miniature, Beautiful Woman in Costume oil painting the fittings to hold knives

the fittings to hold knives

More to a petit point or micro point

when Daguerre developed the very first method of photography

Lovely old treasure of fine quality and high appeal

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Antique English pre-Raphaelite Portrait Miniature, Beautiful Woman in Costume oil painting the fittings to hold knivesA superb antique portrait in miniature, gouache or watercolor on card or heavy paper, or possibly on natural wafer I have not taken her out. The painting is superb! In the Pre Raphaelite tradition, probably done mid 1800s. Very much in the style of Alma Tadema, or Rosetti, others of that movement. I would place it mid to later 1800s, and while I do not find a signature visible in aperture, it surely is done by an accomplished artist. I did not open