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George Hewitt Cushman (June 5, 1814 – August 3, 1876) was a top American engraver and painter of miniature paintings and portraits of his time (second only to Edward Greene Malbone). He turned early to these professions after family financial misfortunes prevented him from entering West Point and becoming a soldier.
The Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, more commonly known as the Royal Miniature Society (RMS), is an art society founded in 1895 dedicated to upholding and continuing the tradition of miniature painting and sculpture, [1] generally meaning the painted portrait miniature, a particular English tradition.
Freeman's 1841 miniature of Queen Victoria (14.1 x 11.2 cm, oil on canvas). Freeman specialized in miniature portraits—typically comparable in size to a modern 4x6 inch photographic print, often small enough to be held in a locket or brooch, and usually (but not always) painted onto either porcelain or ivory rather than canvas. [8]
Portrait of John Dyer Collier, circa 1785, by George Engleheart; watercolour on ivory; V&A Museum no. P.76-1910 [1] Victoria and Albert Museum, London. George Engleheart (1750–1829) was an English painter of portrait miniatures, and a contemporary of Richard Cosway, John Smart, William Wood, and Richard Crosse.
Modern Fruit Medieval Art (1850) The Blonde and The Brunette (1851) The Seneschal (painted for Sir Morton Peto, 1852) Harold (1855) Fair and Fruitful Italy and Beautiful in Death, a peacock (1857) The Peacock at Home (1858) The Golden Age (1859) A Sunny Bank (1861) A Gleam of Sunshine and The Burgomaster's Dessert (1862).
Miniature of Sinon and the Trojan Horse, from the Vergilius Romanus, a manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, early 5th century. A miniature (from the Latin verb miniare 'to colour with minium', a red lead [1]) is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment.
by George,” the Prince of Wales and the Princess of Wales, both 40, captioned a Sunday, December 25, Instagram photo of the portrait. George, 9, sketched out and painted a brown reindeer ...
Christian Horneman's miniature portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven (1802).. In Denmark, Cornelius Høyer specialized in miniature painting (often 40 mm × 30 mm or approximately 1-1.5 inches, or in many case, oval or round in shape) in the second half of the 18th century and was appointed Miniature Painter to the Danish Court in 1769.