Seventeenth-century English Miniatures: In the Collection of the Victoria and Albert MuseumThis publication is a complete catalogue of 17th-century miniatures in the national collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It offers a full account of the physical construction of the miniatures, setting each object in its historical context both in terms of the artist's oeuvre and of the portraiture of the known sitters. |
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Alan Evans Alexander Cooper artist attributed background Beale bequeathed bezel blue wash brown and sanguine Buccleuch Charles Christie's collar Collection Colour Plate Condition convex back convex glass copy costume D-section dark brown darker colour Dixon Duke Dyck Earl Elizabeth Elizabeth of Bohemia enamel engraved eyes Features Flatman Foskett Foster Frame Gerbier Gibson gouache Goulding Graham Reynolds Granges hair in brown hair in pale Ham House hanger hatched in brown hatched with darker Hoskins identification Inscribed inscription Isaac Oliver Lady leaf Lely lights in pale Literature locket Long miniaturist mm Features modelled Murdoch Museum nineteenth-century Oliver Millar opaque Oval painted pale brown wash pale carnation ground pale gouache pasteboard Peter Oliver Piper portrait present miniature Provenance repro retouches Reynolds Samuel Cooper self-portrait seventeenth-century shadow sitter Sotheby's stippled Summary Catalogue table-book vellum put Vertue Wallop washed and hatched Welbeck Abbey white heightening Williamson 1904