Antique American Portrait Miniature, c.1800, ID'd and Artist Noted in Oyster Frame writer's Displays so beautifully

Displays so beautifully

Very good to excellent on all 8 pieces

Venice is one of the most magical places

he opens to reveal a compartment for pipe tobacco

which is all the more amazing if you realize the faces are each an inch from chin to hairline

Antique American Portrait Miniature, c.1800, ID'd and Artist Noted in Oyster Frame writer's Displays so beautifullyAnother American portrait miniature from my collection, this handsome distinguished gentleman is ID's in back, noting him to be "James Woodhouse" from New York, who died in 183 something (I didn't open the back, which seems complicated, and can only read what you see). It would appear that an artist's name is also mentioned as "W. Jarvin". I'm able to find a James Woodhouse but he's a generation older. A Dr in Pennsylvania, he died in 1809. It might