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Portraits and Frames<\/h1>\n

Before the advent of photography, family portraits were usually commissioned by well known artists and oil on canvas was the preferred medium. While most were made lifesize some were produced in miniaturized form and included on small boxes or pendants. The advent of photography in the mid-1800s made portrait production available to a far wider spectrum of society by the start of the 20th century. In the late 1880s studios in Paris and Berlin produced fine portraits on glass for discerning customers but it was very costly so only the very rich could afford such things.<\/h2>\n

Photograph of Fedor Artemeivitch Tereshchenko<\/h1>\n

Around 1888 Fedor Tereshchenko sat for his portrait in one such Parisian studio and obtained a large 9″ x 12″ size reverse negative on glass image of his face which was then framed in an ebony wood with gold guilt frame to be displayed in the salon of his Kiev residence. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dimensions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n