Over the past few years, art historians have identified several previously unknown paintings by Elizabeth I's favorite artist ...

The intimate charm of their small size and the delicat complexity of their gold cases, which sometimes house a lock of hair decoratively plaited, make portrait miniatures appealing. The sport in ...

If you ask Alan Derbyshire how he came to specialise in the conservation of portrait miniatures, he says it was “being in the right place at the right time”. He joined London’s Victoria and Albert ...

“Portrait miniatures are like passport photos: They’re small, portable and realistic,” said Emma Rutherford, the head of portrait miniatures at Bonhams, a London auction house. “Their accuracy is what ...

A fascinating niche in antique collectibles is what we call miniature portraits on ivory. Don't let the word "ivory" confuse you because that factor is not discernable. If you have seen very small ...

At Yale University Art Gallery, the artist designs a show blending fact and speculation about the lives of Black Americans whose stories have largely been lost. Mickalene Thomas designed “Portrait of ...

Miniature portraits, from one inch in diameter up to tennis ball sized, started getting popular among Europeans in the sixteenth century. If a husband was going traveling, both spouses would keep an ...

Intimate portraits painted on a tiny scale first appeared in Europe’s courts in the 16th century. Unlike the grand likenesses displayed in castle halls for all to see, these palm-sized portraits were ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A new exhibit at the ...

He may have fought in some 60 battles during a long and distinguished military career, earning himself the nickname 'Iron Duke', but a little-known portrait miniature of the 1st Duke of Wellington has ...

The rather ornate frame on a miniature of Henri III of France. It's not every day we're handed a magnifying glass as we enter an exhibition... in fact it's never happened before, and we've been to a ...

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