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This cabinet portrait shows Robert Muir wearing a sailor-styled tunic suit with some Fauntleroy trimming at the collar and cuffs. The tunic has large cloth-covered buttons and a low self belt. It looks to be a velvet suit. It is a dark suit, but we are not sure about the color. It does not look to be black. The sailor collar is white with a white dickey and dark blue ruffles. We have not seen trim quite like this before. He has matching long stockings and high-top shoes. Robert looks to be about 7-8 years old. The studio was J.E. Mack Studio in Northern Ireland (Coleraine, Portstewart, and Ballymoney). Presumably Mack had studios in these three towns. The cabinent mount was styled a little differently than the ones we have seen in America. We are not sure how to date it. The traditional cabinet card mount suggests the 1890s. We are not sure about the chronology of tunic suit in Ulster, probably the same as Englsnd. Tunic suits in America were popular at the turn of the 20th century. We are less sure about Britain and by extension northern Ireland, but something like 1895-1905 seems likely. Boys in Ulster wear tunic suits throughout the 19th century, but the Fauntleroy and sailir styling date Robert's out fit to the end of the century ir early-20th century.
Robert's hair is done with a top curl and ringlets.
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