Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises Or else our subject was

Or else our subject was dressed up as in a maid's uniform and is playing the part of a servant taking a break from her duties

with the single flower

all to the good I think

and shows age toning--I believe it likely early 20th century

Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises Or else our subject wasI just can't get over how contemporary a super spare full body antique tintype portrait like this one feels and how completely present the subject thereby seems, as if one could oneself walk straight into the frame and touch him. Even better to find that starkness in an occupational photo, here with this painters profession distilled down to a drippy paint can and brush in hand. And with a clear line of white paint stain running straight across the