Half length portrait of a young woman holding a photograph or miniature of a man. She is seated on a chair resting her elbow on a table. She has ringlets and wears a silk dress with buttoning on the bodice, white cuffs and two bracelets as well as a brooch at her neck.

head and shoulder portrait of a woman.

Portrait of Mrs Littledale of Belton Hall. She is in profile and wears a lace cap, and a lace collar over a checked dress

See The Victorian Art World in Photographs by Jeremy Maas, page 41. Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859) was a painter and writer. He was born in London though his parents were Americans. The family resettled in Philadelphia in the USA when Charles was five years old. He was always interested in painting and drama and came to the attention of George Frederick Cooke when Cooke saw a portrait Leslie had drawn of him. Donations enabled Leslie to study in Europe.[1] Leslie went to London in 1811 and studied at the Royal Academy where he became a prize winning student. He became friends with Coleridge, Beechey, Allston, Washington Irving and Benjamin West. In 1825 he married Harriet Honor Stone. Together they had six children. One of whole followed in his fathers steps and became an artist, another was bridge builder and was knighted. Leslie became a full member of the Royal Academy in 1826. The following year he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician. In 1833, he spent six months teaching drawing at the military academy of West Point in the USA, but soon returned to the UK. He died 5 May 1859.[1] Leslie's brothers were the American author Eliza Leslie and the United States Army soldier Thomas Jefferson Leslie.

Catherine M Wiseman had six children. This image is one of three plates, seemingly identical, presumably for different children. They were probably taken as three successive exposures. All three are included in case anyone wishes to study multiple daguerreotype images.