Three Early Miniature Portrait Including Bracelet

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1 1/2" (4 cm.) - 3" (unframed). Each is a delicately-rendered painting, including portrait of elderly woman with ruffled coiffe and collar, black vest and jacket (with curved glass at the front and back of the silver frame, the back glass designed to preserve a lock of hair); brown haired girl with topknot and white low-bodiced blouse; and a semi-profile of young lady with brown hair drawn from face, with ringlet curl onto front bodice, in gold frame and presented as a center brooch of a hair-woven bracelet. Generally excellent. Mid-1800s.