Wonderful Antique Portrait of Woman in Green on Tin cranberries I personally would treat it

I personally would treat it as a found sculpture and hang it straight on the wall

or gophers (or heads of squirrels if one prefers to think of them

Just a beautifully carved little beaver

joined to one another by small nails and then by four pieces of wire strung through holes and neatly twisted along the bottom edge

Wonderful Antique Portrait of Woman in Green on Tin cranberries I personally would treat itI have no information about the subject of this painting, but I think it's a wonderful portrait, and personally I like the craquelure and paint loss revealing the mirror like surface of the shiny tin underneath, making it feel at the more atmospheric. Between her dress and her hair I think mid 19th c., and it seems the black neck ribbon and pink bow with brooch may be signifiers identifiers of some sort, but I'm not entirely certain what they tell us