Family portrait on a Bench, 1840s-50

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A Family Seated in Its Garden / Family Group (The “Hidden Witness”)

by Charles H. Fontayne & William Southgate Porter, 1848-1852

Exterior view of wooden house with family posed on bench. A black man is in the extreme background.

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source: J. Paul Getty Museum

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1840s 1848-1852 19th century American apron bench boy C. H. Fontayne Charles H. Fontayne child children daguerreotype exterior family family portrait father Fontayne garden garden bench gentleman girl hair comb haircomb house man mother Porter print dress sun bonnet sun hat top hat vee hair parting vee hairparting W. S. Porter William Southgate Porter

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