Unidentified Crayon Portrait, circa 1880 to 1910, prior to 1901, “crayon” was still only a French-word meaning pencil.
"Crayon portraits were enlargements produced by a developing-out process and finished with applied pastels or charcoal. Such prints were often life-size and were made from the 1860s up to the early 20th Century." - Constance McCabe.
"David Acheson Woodward (1823–1909), a portrait painter and art instructor, patented a solar camera in 1857 that used light from the sun and copying lenses to enlarge a small negative onto large photographically sensitized paper or canvas. Many artists did not simply paint [or pastel, charcoal] the photograph, but would use the photograph as a starting point, changing the background of the room, the pattern of fabric, style of the clothing, or expression of the face of the sitter." -- Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, John Hannavy.
"Crayon portraits were enlargements produced by a developing-out process and finished with applied pastels or charcoal. Such prints were often life-size and were made from the 1860s up to the early 20th Century." - Constance McCabe.
"David Acheson Woodward (1823–1909), a portrait painter and art instructor, patented a solar camera in 1857 that used light from the sun and copying lenses to enlarge a small negative onto large photographically sensitized paper or canvas. Many artists did not simply paint [or pastel, charcoal] the photograph, but would use the photograph as a starting point, changing the background of the room, the pattern of fabric, style of the clothing, or expression of the face of the sitter." -- Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, John Hannavy.
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