16 Facts About Portrait miniature

1.

Portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel.

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2.

Portrait miniature developed from the illuminated manuscript, which had been superseded for the purposes of book illustration by techniques such as woodprints and calc printing.

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3.

John Hoskins was followed by a son of the same name, who was known to have been living in 1700, since a Portrait miniature signed by him and bearing that date is in the Pierpont Morgan collection, representing James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick.

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4.

Portrait miniature spent much of his time in Paris and Holland, and very little is known of his career.

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5.

Portrait miniature's work has a superb breadth and dignity, and has been well called life-size work in little.

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6.

Portrait miniature painted upon card, chicken skin and vellum, and on two occasions upon thin pieces of mutton bone.

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7.

Portrait miniature's work is frequently signed with his initials, generally in gold, and very often with the addition of the date.

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8.

Portrait miniature worked at several other European courts and won a considerable international reputation.

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9.

Portrait miniature was succeeded by Christian Horneman as Denmark's premier proponent of the special trade of miniature portraits.

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10.

Portrait miniature's works are of great beauty, and executed with a dash and brilliance which no other artist equalled.

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11.

Portrait miniature's 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".

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12.

Portrait miniature's work was hailed by contemporaries for his excellence in refinement, power and delicacy; its silky texture and elaborate finish, and the artists love for a brown background.

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13.

Portrait miniature was used as a tool for notoriety, respect, and promotion especially for the British in Colonial India.

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14.

Portrait miniature contributed miniatures to the Society of Artists in Dublin from 1765 to 1773.

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15.

Around 1900, the United States experienced a revival of miniature portraiture, marked by the 1899 foundation of the American Society of Miniature Painters and the success of artists such as Virginia Richmond Reynolds, Lucy May Stanton, and Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt.

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16.

Concealing the identity of a Portrait miniature would have been necessary if the subject was an unpopular ruler, potentially causing harm if a person was caught carrying the picture.

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