Standing, with Tall Hat and Pink Cheeks, Spare and Painterly Antique Tintype middlesex england I have not been able

I have not been able to identify the C

I don't do much with glass

) Earlyish 20th c

and from which some of the brown paint has worn off

which in this case feels to me exactly right and makes me love the photo all the more

Standing, with Tall Hat and Pink Cheeks, Spare and Painterly Antique Tintype middlesex england I have not been ableI often use the word painterly to describe tintypes that have a poetic sort of spareness and tonal richness to them I'm not totally sure how to articulate it, but it's a particular sort of beauty, and distinguishes them from the bulk of tintype portraits one finds. Anyway, whatever it is, this for me embodies it. The crisp rake of that cloth draped table edge, coming in from the right, and how it echoes the cross of his leg, and the way that old