This is my great grandmother, Cordelia Wells of Missouri. She was married to Charles Green/Greene. (The name of the child and the date of the photo weren't given by the submitter.)
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...