Studio portrait of Stephen Brooks (1822-1896), son of Charles Hoar and Nancy Miller Damon, brother of Charles Sylvester Brooks, and uncle of Edwin Miller Brooks.
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...