I can imagine what a shock it was to see the photograph! A thrilling shock, of course! It is amazing you found a photo of him.
Do you know what kind of photo it was? I read that many tintypes and ambrose types are mirror images, just as modern photograph negatives are.
Seek and ye shall find is very good advice! I found a photo of a portrait of my great-great grandfather, the dad of my Civil War great-grandfather, by contacting distant relatives in S. Africa I'd found online at a gen. site. The family emigrated from England to South Africa, as many English families did back then, to escape the cold dampness of England.
My great-great grandfather Isaac Austen (1797-1856), an Englishman, owned a grocery store in Godalming and one in Tonbridge and was a circuit Wesleyan Methodist preacher. He and my gr grandfather are listed in Jane Austen's family tree, but I haven't yet figured out exactly how they were related to her.
The facial spots are from paint discoloration on the original portrait.
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