[Elderly Man; Full Face]

Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850

What you practise here

American daguerreotype: sharp portrait, studio light

A photograph gives you honest values: map the darks first, keep the lights clean, and resist copying texture.

Public-domain artwork from a museum collection, reproduced for study. 100% real art — 0% AI.

Other artworks to study

Lemuel Shaw [Nancy Southworth Hawes] Albert Sands Southworth Josiah Johnson Hawes [Girl with Portrait of George Washington] [Woman in Profile with Lace Collar and Shawl]