Tunmer, Charles Frederick (McKechnie Section 2)

Recorded by Mr J. A. Pollak ('Fresh Light on Silhouette', Connoisseur, March 1949) in an account of a silhouette bearing a trade label (No. 1; see below) of Tunmer, giving a Colchester address. According to another label, seen on a silhouette taken on 14 April 1824, Tunmer in due course worked as a carver and gilder in Ipswich. The silhouette noted by Mr Pollak, from the collection of the late L. Morgan May, was taken not long after 1800. The silhouette taken in Ipswich (described to me by a collector) was painted in black on card, and embellished both with gold and with pigment mixed with gum arabic.

Mr Pollak records that Trade Label No. 1 (printed) was seen on the silhouette in the Morgan May collection; it gives the address 16 High Street, Colchester, and appears to have been used in the early 1800s.

An example of Trade Label No. 2 (handwritten), from the later of the two recorded silhouettes, has been seen by Mr Graham Thomas; it reads as follows:

C. F. TUNMER

Profile-Painter

Carver and Gilder

White Hart Lane,

IPSWICH.


April 14, 1824.