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	Juniata College - Museum of Art
		Portrait miniature painting began in the 1500s and it became particularly popular between 1750 and 1850.
		Portrait painters strove to capture the individual character of the sitter in watercolor on thin disks of ivory.
		Portrait miniatures were regarded as highly as full-size portraits, and often took just as long to complete given the intricate work involved.
	services.juniata.edu /museum/coll_miniatures.html (257 words)

	Portrait miniature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache or watercolor.
		Portrait miniatures began to flourish in 16th-century Europe and the art was practiced during the 17th and 18th centuries.
		His portraits are generally on ivory, although occasionally he worked on paper or vellum, and he produced a great many full-length pencil drawings on paper, in which he slightly tinted the faces and hands, and these he called "stayned drawings".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portrait_miniature (1543 words)

	Portraits, Miniatures and silhouettes by Phyllis Arnold
		Her unique method of painting a portrait silhouette on plaster from a single sitting, carries on a tradition of painting on a plaster surface which was used by a small number of profile artists, in the years between 1770 and 1820.
		Her portraits are to be found in many corners of the globe and amongst her sitters can be found names from many walks of life; from Royalty and politcians to young children.
		Her silhouette portrait of Queen Elizabeth II was a familiar sight, when it was chosen to enhance a number of fine limited edition porcelain commemorative pieces issued by Coalport Porcelain, to mark the Silver Jubilee.
	www.bcwebdesign.co.uk /portrait-miniaturesandsilhouettes/silhouettes3.htm (342 words)

	American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Portrait miniatures, small enough to fit in the palm of the hand, are unique among works of art for their highly personal associations.
		Whereas easel portraits were displayed on the wall, miniatures usually were worn as jewelry or framed to be cherished in private.
		The miniature's rise in popularity in the North American colonies in the mid-eighteenth century coincided with a greater cultural emphasis on romantic love, marriage, and affection between parents and children.
	cmi.yale.edu /ym (218 words)

	Portrait Miniatures of Claudia Hill
		The miniature portrait originated in the 16th century, through the union of two separate streams of tradition, one being the illuminated manuscript, the other that of the portrait medal.
		Portrait Miniature paintings today are usually executed on a small scale, and can be painted in any medium, such as watercolour, oil, enamel or plumbago.
		Whilst the earliest examples of portrait miniatures are painted on vellum, those of the 18th and 19th century are on ivory.
	www.ellisonfineart.com (292 words)

	Cynthia Walmsley :: Portrait Miniatures, Silhouettes and Portraits
		Portrait of a young gentleman with curly hair wearing a fl jacket and white waistcoat, white shirt and frilled white cravat.
		He exhibited at the R.A. This miniature is typical of his work in that the modelling of the face is good and the background is grey/brown.
		A fine portrait of a gentleman wearing a blue jacket, white shirt with frilled cravat and a buff coloured waistcoat.
	www.c-walmsley.co.uk /portraitminiatures.asp?c=1&od=notes (489 words)

	Columbia Museum of Art: General Info (2006 News Releases) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Portrait miniatures were personal mementos created to commemorate life's most significant events, such as the birth or death of a child, a marriage or the departure of a loved one for war.
		Miniatures could also be displayed more publicly atop small, decorative boxes; larger ones were framed to hang on the wall in a home.
		The exhibition explores the art of the portrait miniature beginning with its origins in the European courts of the 16th century through its international resurgence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
	www.colmusart.org /html/news2006/0601.shtml (473 words)

	John Wood Dodge: and the portrait miniature Magazine Antiques - Find Articles
		He quickly found portrait miniatures on ivory to be his metier, and his progress in the field was remarkable.
		Portrait miniatures were not made to be hung on a wall, to be gawked at by the merely curious, as were large portraits.
		Dodge's miniatures are in the larger size, they tend to have the bolder coloring, and his normal background is relatively dark.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_5_164/ai_111185594 (967 words)

	Coastal Antiques and Art
		Such is the case with portrait miniatures, where the wide range of subjects includes royalty, merchants and, eventually, well-to-do tradesmen, military heroes and statesmen.
		Portrait miniatures were especially popular as love tokens when the portraits were of beautiful women.
		In America, portrait miniatures became vogue by the mid-18th century and were created by famed artists such as John Copley and Charles Wilson Peale.
	www.coastalantiques.com /archives/may2002/ANTtinypix.html (563 words)

	Headlines@Hopkins: Johns Hopkins University News Releases
		She ended up focusing on Teerlinc, a gentlewoman of the Tudor Court and a talented painter whose portrait miniatures were prized by kings and queens.
		Portrait miniatures were very small, full-color illuminated paintings that were highly prized among royalty and the aristocracy as very personal items--sort of the wallet-size snapshots of that era.
		As she studied the scholarship on portrait miniaturists, Franco began to suspect that there were many miniatures that Teerlinc had painted but had not gotten credit for.
	www.jhu.edu /news_info/news/home99/sep99/portrait.html (568 words)

	Portrait Miniatures from Barry Hayes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A portrait miniature of a Lady wearing a red dress and white bonnet.
		A portrait miniature of an attractive young lady.
		A portrait miniature of a naval officer c1800.
	www.portraitminiatures-barryhayes.co.uk (438 words)

	American Portrait Miniatures by Johnson
		Miniature portraits of family members and sweethearts were valued possessions before the advent of photography.
		Miniatures were meticulously painted in watercolor on ivory, a difficult medium that demanded considerable technical mastery.
		Each miniature is catalogued with a physical description, an illustration at actual size and a discussion that whenever possible includes information about the subject of the portrait.
	www.spencermarks.com /html/american_portrait_miniatures.html (481 words)

	The Johns Hopkins Gazette: August 30, 1999
		Teerlinc was a gentlewoman of the Tudor Court, a talented painter whose portrait miniatures were prized by kings and queens.
		She was also one of the few female portrait miniature painters.
		Franco said it was rare for a woman to be included in the highly secretive world of portrait miniature painters, who guarded their techniques and would teach them only to selected proteges.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/1999/aug3099/30jamie.html (769 words)

	Rosenbach Museum & Library - Collections Spotlight
		In 1999, the Rosenbach acquired a portrait miniature by Anna Claypoole Peale (1791-1878), one of the many Peale family artists active in and around Philadelphia during the 18th and 19th centuries.
		As in the miniatures made by her father, James Peale, the luminosity of the skin was enhanced by placing a piece of foil behind the ivory in the area of the flesh.
		Most of the Rosenbach's portrait miniatures were acquired by Philip H. Rosenbach in his 1928 purchase of the collection assembled by Talbot Hughes.
	www.rosenbach.org /collections/spotlight.html (550 words)

	sentimental jewelry: Portrait Miniatures
		Portrait miniatures were intensely intimate objects that linked together the sitter, viewer, and wearer and communicated their relationship to one another.
		In addition to miniature painting, Taylor was also a jeweler and probably crafted the silver brooch with a fl enamel band specifically for this miniature.
		French portrait miniature by Jean-Baptiste Soyer, the reverse of which houses the most incredible hairwork I’ve ever seen: a family of birds nesting among three sheaths of wheat.
	sentimentaljewelry.blogspot.com /2006/07/portrait-miniatures.html (299 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Hermitage News
		The miniatures were executed on ivory sheets using watercolour and gouache by the noted artists I.A. Vinberg, K.F. Edlinger, V.M. Vankovich, F. Kronewetter and L.I. Solovyov, as well as a number of unknown artists.
		On the reverse of the miniatures there were partial repetitions, multiple layers of paper, cardboard and leather pasted on.
		Many of the miniatures were lacking the metal foil that was applied to the reverse side of the ivory sheets to give warmth and intensity to the colours.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/13/hm13_3_016.html (404 words)

	Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures
		Miniatures, like William Birch's enamel portrait of Washington set in a snuff box, melded the public and private realms, helping to fashion an American character based on the internalization of republican ideals through ownership of everyday objects.
		Portrait miniatures resonate with the greater emphasis placed on romantic love in an era newly enthralled with family life.
		The miniatures grouped here offer an intimate glimpse into relationships between men and women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the vogue for exchanging miniatures to celebrate betrothal and marriage was at its height.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/2aa/2aa507.htm (2847 words)

	Antique Portrait Miniatures from Piccolo Art Ltd.
		For centuries people have been interested in the portrait miniature for many reason; perhaps one of the most important being that the miniature has always stood apart in the field of portraiture.
		Unlike the wall portrait, which by its very size was meant as a public object, designed to flatter the sitter, or impressed the viewer, the portrait miniature was initially conceived for quite different reasons.
		Miniatures were also routinely given to solidify a declaration of love; bestowed at the time of an engagement or marriage.
	www.piccoloart.co.uk (298 words)

	VMFA: Exhibitions: Masterpieces in Little: Portrait Miniatures from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
		There are 75 miniature portraits in Masterpieces in Little: Portrait Miniatures from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts through Sunday, July 13.
		Testifying to the wide-ranging interests of British royalty and nobility are miniature portraits of poet John Donne, composer George Frideric Handel, and Lord Nelson, the naval hero of the Battle of Trafalgar.
		The art of portrait miniatures, which began in the 1500s, flourished through the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I, when the cultural elite were proud to have their likenesses "counterfeited" by means of these bejeweled treasures.
	www.vmfa.state.va.us /MasterpieceLittle2.html (853 words)

	Boscobel Acquires Rare Portrait Miniatures -- by the Half Moon Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Curators at Boscobel are certain that he owned portrait miniatures of the King and Queen because they appear in the estate inventory taken at his death in 1806.
		Several weeks after acquiring the portraits, it was discovered that there is a silhouette of States Morris Dyckman in the Boscobel collection and on exhibit in the museum that was acquired by States in the 1780s and that bears the same maker label, Meirs of London, on the back of the frame.
		The framed miniatures are hung in the Front Drawing Room, which was considered to be the "best" and most formal room in the house, and which is the room the Dyckmans chose to proudly display their miniatures originally.
	www.hudsonriver.com /halfmoonpress/stories/0504bosc.htm (756 words)

	Russian Portrait Miniatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Portrait of an officer of the Life Guard Hussar regiment by Michael Zatsepin, signed with Cyrillic initials 'MZ' and dated 1820, set in a gold bezel, wooden frame of the period with gilt-bronze mounts.
		Three portrait miniatures by M.Zatsepin from the collection of the State Historical museum in Moscow are published in "Portrait Miniature in Russia 18th-19th Centuries", 1988.
		Portrait of a gentleman, circa 1845, by Ivan Andreivich Winberg, a prominent St.Petersburg portrait miniature artist, academician of watercolors and miniatures (1846) of the Academy of Arts, set in a gold and blue enamel bezel, 1 4/8 x 1 13/16 in.
	www.romanovrussia.com /PrtMnt.html (163 words)

	At Yale, Some New Faces among the Old
		As a result, 95 miniatures are now the promised bequest of the collector and her husband, Alvin Deutsch, a 1958 graduate of Yale Law School.
		A fascination with Washington's death as a cultural phenomenon led her also to study needlework, portrait miniatures, and artifacts of mourning.
		Most American miniatures were painted in watercolor on thin disks of ivory and housed under glass in finely worked gold lockets, brooches or bracelets.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /TT0-12-12-2000-11-31-43 (1404 words)

	British Portrait Miniatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Romantic portrait of a dark haired beauty, signed with initials, and set in an ormolu mount, 4".
		The miniature is set in a paste frame with clear reverse to show the signature.
		The miniature is set in an eighteenth century gold and enamelled locket with a solid gold reverse with diamond surround panel.
	www.portraitminiatures.co.uk /Portrait_Miniatures/British_Artists/british_artists.html (333 words)

	Portrait Miniatures
		Augustin was certainly one the greatest French miniature painters with Isabey, Dumont, Autissier, Laurent, Guérin or Sicardi.
		This miniature, one of the most exquisite he painted, was certainly a masterpiece whereas some other works by him did not reach pre-sale estimates and were unsold in that sale.
		The first miniature carried an estimate of £ 15,000 to 25,000 and the second one of £ 6,000 to 8,000.
	www.artcult.com /minait.htm (339 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 04/26/2006 : Mini Masterpieces
		A razor-thin cell phone, a digital camera with family photos and a tiny portrait of a loved one painted on an ivory brooch sit on an office desk.
		Miniatures could be tokens of affection shared by lovers or they could be diplomatic tools bestowed by a King.
		Perhaps this is why many of the portraits express the intimacy of families and the fragility of life.
	www.citybeat.com /2006-04-26/art.shtml (827 words)

	Miniatures, Classical Realism in miniature art portrait artist miniature artist landscape artist, Renaissance style ...
		As small in size as 40 mm × 30 mm (1½ in × 1¼ in), portrait miniatures were often used as personal mementos or as jewelry or snuff box covers.
		Une miniature est un tableau de petites dimensions réalisé avec minutie.
		Le terme miniature est également utilisé pour désigner un modèle réduit, une maquette.
	www.yoyita.com /Miniatures.htm (612 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In Pictures \| In pictures: Portrait miniatures
		The portrait miniature first appeared in Britain in the 1520s and the term was used to describe a painting in watercolour on a fine animal skin called vellum.
		Richard Cosway's portrait of Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington was painted on ivory.
		Charles Hayter's Portrait of an Unknown Boy was painted around 1800 and depicts the boy holding a miniature of his mother and siblings.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_pictures/4308253.stm (293 words)

	Amazon.ca: Love and Loss : American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures: Books: Robin Jaffee Frank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Yet most of its colorplates are full-scale reproductions, for the brilliantly lifelike paintings in them are tiny portraits painted in watercolor on thin ivory disks.
		At the height of their American popularity, from 1760 to about 1840, these cherished portraits were frequently commissioned as a way to hold on to absent loved ones.
		Miniature itself in size, it contains a whopping 358 pages packed with information and insights, along with plenty of full-size illustrations.
	www.amazon.ca /Love-Loss-American-Mourning-Miniatures/dp/0300087241 (689 words)

	Yale Bulletin and Calendar
		Drawn from the gallery's collection of nearly 300 portrait miniatures, the exhibit includes works both recently acquired and those within the promised bequest of Davida and Alvin Deutsch, some of which are being publicly displayed for the first time.
		Frequently worn as lockets or bracelet ornaments, portrait miniatures often served as surrogates for absent loved ones or as personal icons of honored individuals.
		On the reverse is a miniature of the couple's granddaughter, Nelly.
	www.yale.edu /opa/v34.n1/story9.html (710 words)

	Portobello Road - Portrait Miniatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Large selection of 17th, 18th and 19th century English and Continental miniatures on ivory, enamel and porcelain always in stock.
		Also portrait boxes and enamel items, perfume bottles, object of vertu, pocket watches and fine snuffboxes.
		Large selection of 17th, 18th and 19th century miniatures on ivory and enamel.
	www.portobelloroad.co.uk /specialist/portrait_miniatures.asp (49 words)

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