Miniatures: 300 Years of the English Miniature : Illustrated from the Collections of the National Portrait GalleryA chronological guide to the history of the English miniature, fully illustrated in colour with over 100 examples from the National Portrait Gallery. It covers the period from the accession of Elizabeth I to the early 19th century, and includes examples of the works of Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver, Samuel Cooper, Peter Cross and Richard Cosway, among many other masters of this precise and fascinating art. The text includes detailed discussion of each example illustrated, with biographical details of artists and sitters, as well as presenting new fashions and developments in each period of the history of miniature painting in England. |
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4TH BARON NORTH acquired actual size 76 Alan Evans bequest Anne of Denmark Antiquaries Artist unknown Attributed Barrow became Beechey bequeathed Bernard Lens Bligh bought Christian Richter Christie's collection of miniatures colours Complete Peerage court CROMWELL daughter diameter Inscribed Dudley Duke Edgeworth ENGLEHEART engraved exhibited famous favourite Foskett full-scale George Vertue given Henry Bone Horace Walpole Isaac Oliver James Jeremiah Meyer John Hoskins John Smart Joseph Goupy JOSIAH SPODE Keats's Kerslake known London NPG Lord miniature painting Miniaturist Self-portrait National Portrait Gallery Nicholas Hilliard Ormond oval 48 oval 51 oval 64 oval 70 oval 86 Ozias Humphry Peter Cross Piper poet Portrait Miniatures portrait painter portraiture Prince of Wales Queen Anne rectangle Reigned Reynolds Richard Cosway Rogers Romney Royal Academy Royal Collection Royal Society Sackville Samuel Cooper shows Signed and dated Signed with monogram studio Thomas Uninscribed NPG Vellum Walker Watercolour on ivory whole-length William