Antique French Portrait Miniature, Handsome Young Man w Mutton Chops #2, c.1830s soupier The artist is apprenticed for

The artist is apprenticed for years and years before he/she is adept enough at this arduous and painstaking process to eventuate a finished product like the one we have here

or to incorporate into a pillow top for one of those luxuriant down-filled decorator sofa or throw pillows

The statue or fixture is in fine shape

Fit for a museum

I've owned this bag for 20-30 years

Antique French Portrait Miniature, Handsome Young Man w Mutton Chops #2, c.1830s soupier The artist is apprenticed forI feel certain this is a brother to another portrait miniature we've just sold, from the same estate and in the same silk velvet covered frame. The mutton chop sideburns were fashionable c. 1830, which is when this young man's portrait would have been made. A tall collar coat with black tie and what appears to be a garnet brooch at lapel, his hair swept up in the manner popular in his youth. Nearly 200 years ago, this young man lived and loved