Ron,
You were my best friend and one of the very few true friends i have ever had, i will miss you. it tears me up that you had to leave this world so soon when you may not have seen it, you did have so much to live for. Farewell friend in another life.
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...