Miniature Portrait of John Todd, Dedicated to His Son Joseph on 14th May 1822

This portrait is finely painted in watercolour on card, almost monotone in colour with just gentle hints of pink in his lips, cheeks and ears and it sits within a black ebonised frame with acorn hanger. He is quite a fashionable young Chap sporting the Brutish haircut with his curls pushed forward and indeed upwards, and those soft impressive side burns which seem to sink into that very high and very starched collar with white cravat over which sits his double breasted jacket. On the back of the portrait there is the following touch verso I John Todd, son, of John Todd of Bourne, Lincolnshire do dedicate this portrait of myself to my dear Son Joseph on May 14th 1822 *28 years of age when painted* (Added some years after the above). Sadly I was unable in my research to find out any further information about John Todd, his father or his son.