PORTRAIT FRAMES


I have always found second-generation images intriguing. The featured photograph here, a daguerreotype of a portrait of a young woman in its original frame, is particularly appropriate for my Portrait Frame Room. The daguerreotype was invented in 1839 and the simple hexagonal matte surrounding the photo is an early one. Thus we can assume that portrait is not later than the early 1840's.

Almost two centuries later I am pleased to offer a selection of portrait frames for period framing. I have gathered in this website room a number of frames in larger, and often standard, sizes for portrait-sized paintings. They are suitable for both folk art and academic painting from the Nineteenth Century.








click on the thumbnails below to view a selection of frames from my current stock. All frames are subject to prior sale.
#4783 Silver Gilt #SK19 Silver Gilt #4862 Gold Leaf SK17 Gold Leaf #SK53 Gold Leaf #4854 Silver Gilt #SK132 Birdseye


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