Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush baton and I think maybe billiards

and I think maybe billiards

I believe a sea lion

with a solid panel on his back and bias tape seams around his flappy ears and for his tail

I am quite sure original to them and which is in very good condition

just beautiful on all levels

Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush baton and I think maybe billiardsI 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