My Dad's portraits in pastel

My Dad did an amazing job of creating portraits of my maternal grandparents and paternal great grandparents. He worked in pastel and drew from old photographs. It helped that we had professional photographers on both sides of the family even in the early days of photography.

I recently received photos of three of his works. If only I could be as good an artist as he was!

 My maternal grandmother who's middle name, Juhlin, which is her mother's maiden name became my first name. Quite the stylish 1920's look isn't it?

One of my paternal great grandfathers who was a professional photographer and artist himself. My Dad must have inherited the genes from him!

His wife who looks the most similar to me of all the ancestors for whom we have photos. One of my nephews initially thought it was a portrait of me in period dress!