Patti, Adelina - Original Portrait Painting 1889 CDVs Cabinets Instrumentalists also dated in 1898

also dated in 1898

American-Israeli actor (1936-2012)

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Album page signed by her at a very young age

and American actress (1912-1994)

Patti, Adelina - Original Portrait Painting 1889 CDVs Cabinets Instrumentalists also dated in 1898Star soprano (1843 1919), probably the greatest of the second half of the 19th Century. Original portrait of her, hand painted, attributed on verso to Scottish American painter William Russell Smith (1812 1896), with the date 1889. No signature, but verso inscriptions match very well some typical verso inscriptions found in paintings by him (see HERE). We believe this could be an authentic painting by William Russell Smith and not by any members of