Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush baton and that she's been waiting

and that she's been waiting at the gate for him to arrive home

Very sturdy and sound

very good condition with a beautiful patina from age and use

Perhaps there were once more links to it

Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush baton and that she's been waitingI 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