Miniature portraits

During the course of their marriage, King George III and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Srelitz had fifteen children

The sitter’s identity is unknown, but she was likely a student of Martha Baker, who was living and teaching in Paris in 1899. Demand for Baker’s portrait miniatures was so great that she resigned from teaching to keep up with commissions. The artist’s obituary in the New York Times stated that she was “the world’s foremost miniature painter.” In this example, the sitter’s shoulders seem to fade into the pale background, emphasizing the similarity between her skin and the material upon which…

GEORGE ENGLEHEARTKew 1750 - 1829 BlackheathPORTRAIT OF MRS CRAWFORDWatercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gilt-meta

Anastasia Iosifovna Ushakova, circa 1866. Ivan Kuzmich Makarov (23 March 1822, Arzamas - 9 April 1897, Saint Petersburg), Russian portrait painter. Born the son of Kuzma Alexandrovich Makarov, a serf artist of the Penza landowner Gorikhvostov, who had received his freedom in 1815. After completing his general education, from 1834 to 1841 the younger Makarov studied with his father at the Arzamas School of Painting, Russia's first provincial art school. On the basis of submissions he sent to…

Anonymous portrait miniature of an unknown woman formerly attributed to a follower of Isaac Oliver

Four Small Victorian Hand-Painted Miniature Paintings

This miniature was first recorded in 1740 in George Vertue’s Notebooks as ‘another Curious Limning. Sd. to [be] by H. Holbens. – the picture of Henry Guldeford. (when young.) Comptrolor – to K. Hen.’. The context of Vertue’s statement suggests that the miniature was then in the collection of Dr Richard Mead, and this is borne out by the survival of its original gilt locket, which is similar to those preserved with other miniatures from the collection of Dr Mead. The...

ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1619PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY, TRADITIONALLY IDENTIFIED AS MISS CULPEPEROil and gold paint on silver, unf

A portrait miniature is a miniature painting which came out of manuscript illumination. The miniature portrait paintings were made with watercolor and