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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9587401, member: 5833&quot;]There were commissioned as a personalized souvenir of a trip to Rome.&nbsp; Whether he wanted her to wear his portrait, or it was her idea...&nbsp; The first one I showed requires quite an ample bosom to display properly.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are far more cameo portraits of men than of women, not just famous men vs famous women, ordinary civilians as well.&nbsp; I assume this is because women would wear cameos of their husband, or their mother, as jewellery, while a man might have a portrait of his wife or mother cased for travel, but not to anything like the same extent.</p><p><br /></p><p>I should add, there were photography studios not far from the cameo workshops, so you only had to sit for the photographer, not the cameist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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