Catalogue of Portrait Miniatures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Catalogue of Portrait Miniatures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Author: Fitzwilliam Museum

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 9780521267779

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The collection of portrait miniatures at the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of the finest in any country. No other public collection except that in the Victoria and Albert Museum can equal its representation of the British School. It begins at the inception of the art in England (c. 1525), and continues through the next four centuries. All the greatest British miniaturists are represented as well as a number of leading continental artists. In this catalogue each miniature is described and illustrated actual size. Where known, the artist and sitter's name is given. There are references to any literature respecting each miniature, the exhibitions where it has been shown and the collections of which it has formed part. The artistic merit of the miniatures is discussed and comparable work considered. Reasons are given for attribution to particular artists and for identification of sitters. There is a brief biography of each artist and known sitter. A number of miniatures are reproduced in colour.

European Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
European Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0870998080

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A catalog of the museum's collection of some 300 European portrait miniatures dating from the early 16th to the mid-19th centuries. Each piece is described in detail and illustrated with bandw and color photos. Includes an overview of the history of miniature painting, notes on artists, and indices of artists, collectors, makers, and sitters. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Portrait Miniatures from the Merchiston Collection
Portrait Miniatures from the Merchiston Collection

Author: Stephen Lloyd

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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Portrait Miniatures from the Merchistion Collection is the fifth in a series of titles which examines the portrait miniature. This collection, which has never been on public display, was assembled on the London art market during the 1970s and 1980s. Scottish miniaturists from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are particularly well represented with fine works by Scouler, Bogle, and Skirving and Sir William Charles Ross. Of outstanding interest is Nicholas Hilliard's matching pair of tiny lockets of Queen Elizabeth and her admirer Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Stephen Lloyd's essay discusses the formation of the collection and the impact of the invention of photography on the art of miniature painting. It also explores the social history of the miniature. Twenty of the key works are illustrated in colour, with extended captions, and a complete list of the collection is also included.

Portrait Miniatures in Enamel
Portrait Miniatures in Enamel

Author: Gilbert Collection

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers

Published: 2000-07-28

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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A scholarly, comprehensive study of the art of enamels in Europe, presenting examples from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Demonstrates the extraordinary quality and scope of these exquisite works. This scholarly book contains comprehensive information on the art of enamels in Europe and England. It also examines the techniques and tools of enamelists and presents an overview of artists, patrons and sitters represented in this fine collection.

Blake and Conflict
Blake and Conflict

Author: S. Haggarty

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-11-28

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0230584284

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Famously, Blake believed that 'without contraries' there could be no 'progression'. Conflict was integral to his artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume look at conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts.

Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790
Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790

Author: Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780300058338

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The field covered by this volume includes the work and influence of foreign-born painters such as Holbein and Van Dyck as well as native masters from Gower and Milliard to Gainsborough, Stubbs, and Sandby. We can follow step by step the development and flowering of British painting, and can compare, for example, the work of the English Sir Joshua Reynolds with the Scottish Allan Ramsay. Portrait and landscape, history piece, miniature, watercolour, there is a record of them all. The text is both scholarly and readable and the illustrations include well known examples of British painting and others seldom or never before reproduced between the covers of a book. This is the fifth edition of this work, newly enhanced with colour illustrations.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Fine Arts
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Fine Arts

Author: Morton D. Paley

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008-07-10

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0199233055

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In a fascinating account of picture collections in the early 19th century through the eyes of a great English poet, Morton Paley tells the story of Coleridge's initiation into art in England, and his further exploration in Rome. He describes the collections Coleridge saw and his thoughts about the arts and about specific works.