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Originally Posted by dedulya37
there was no camera
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The exhibition daguerreotypes in the Historical Museum about 10 years ago there were several pictures of infants on his deathbed mid last century. Terrible things.
And as for the portrait of Daphne Todd: What wild spiritual qualities one must possess to seek from his dying mother consented to posthumous image? I do not know ...
When an artist paints a portrait of a deceased loved one, trying to capture is not altered traits, and his enthusiasm - it is psychological compensation just struck with grief, a kind of triggering a sense of psychological self-preservation, then it is possible to understand - at least, to understand the motivation. But debate beforehand - cynical and inhuman.