Two William Sherlocks exhibited miniaturesat the Royal Academy in 1803.
In case D, miniatures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and a large number of small copies after François Boucher, with similar work by Charlier and others of the French school of the middle of the eighteenth century.
But I have heard some collectors say, "My miniatures have never been put against damp walls; they have been kept in cases always, yet they have mildew on them.
At Windsor, by the way, are three notable and beautiful miniatures by him of Queen Charlotte, all after Gainsborough, two of them representing her as quite young and not a little attractive.
These considerations lead him to regard old miniatures as valuable adjuncts to historical research, and as worthy of careful and serious study.
Apart from the Jones Collection, which may be dealt with separately, the miniatures in the Victoria and Albert Museum are rather disappointing, and that in spite of a few examples of interest.
The foregoing remarks apply to Cosway's miniatures upon ivory, but, as is well known, he by no means confined himself to those.
Amongst the miniatures by Oliver which are best known are those of Sir Kenelm Digby and his family, which were shown at Messrs.
His miniaturesare said to have exceeded two thousand in number.
My uncle has some rather good miniatures which might please you.
Blake placed the case of miniatures on a table and she took up one or two.
She felt that her old friend was threatened, but she could not see where the danger lay, and, sitting with the miniatures before her, she tried to formulate her suspicions.
On entering the gallery, Challoner took out a case of miniatures and placing it on a small table brought a chair for Mrs. Keith.
And he behaved as though he were showing hisminiatures only to her, as though he were showing her his old lace.
If he asks me to come and see his rooms--he lives in the Palazzo Ruspoli and wants to show me his pictures and miniatures and old lace--why should I refuse to go?
Illuminated miniatures were often protected by a piece of silk between the leaves--and this should be done now, in the case of fine work.
Two librarians named Cavou successfully robbed the library, and probably soldminiatures and pictures.
D it probably dates from the sixth century, if not a little sooner, and is the earliest known copy of Scripture which is adorned with miniatures in watercolours, seventeen in number, very interesting and in good preservation.
In all probability, we may say that the large miniatures are painted by Timoteo Viti, and the illuminations and arabesques by Litti di Filippo de' Corbizi.
St. Beatus, Commentarius in Apocalypsim, written in Spain about 1150; with one hundred and ten very large miniatures and a circular map of the world.
Through this art of illuminating and the painting of miniatures in MSS.
In this apartment are two cabinets, containing numerous miniatures painted by the Countess of Essex,” and many family and other portraits.
The embroideries on the orphreys, which are formed of figures of saints, are as perfect as the miniatures on illuminated MS.
The figures of the tapestry of Gerona are disposed in a precisely similar manner to the miniatures of the 12th century.
Why, let me reflect," as he threw his cold, icy look at the frame of miniatures on the opposite wall.
The two miniatures assigned to Peter Oliver belong respectively to Mr. Jeffery Whitehead and Sir Francis Cook, Bart.
Catalogue of Exhibition of Portrait Miniaturesat the Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1889, pp.
Among the more important kitchen accessories which have been discovered on the sites of Roman towns are bronze scales not unlike miniatures of the steelyards once common in England, and still used by butchers.
At one time there was quite a rage for miniatures in metal-work.
The so-called miniatures range from important reproductions for household and gallery ornament to the quite miniature bronzes which adorn the mantelpiece or cabinet.
His oil-paintings were decidedly popular, but he gained his chief success by his miniatures and enamels, which he executed with masterly capacity.
The quality of his work varied greatly, but the merit of his miniatures and enamels entitles him to a place among the ablest artists of the British school.
One of these miniatures represented a young man about seven-and-twenty, with a sanguine complexion, full lips, and clear candid grey eyes.
The only other manuscript of value was a copy of the Gospels, in quarto, containing severalminiatures and illuminations of the eleventh century; but with this also they refused to part, so it remains for some more fortunate collector.
Another book, of a much greater age, was a copy of the four Gospels, with four finely-executed miniatures of the evangelists.
The miniatures were first-rate works of Byzantine art.
On paper there were two hundred more manuscripts, amongst which was a curious one of the Acts and Epistles, full of large miniatures and illuminations exceedingly well done.
At the period of the full maturity of the Byzantine school great skill is displayed in the best examples of figure-drawing, and a fine type of head and features is found in the miniatures of such MSS.
The frames of the miniatures are chiefly composed of conventional foliage, and the same architectural leaf-mouldings of classical origin which are seen in the foreign MSS.
Westwood, Facsimiles of Miniaturesand Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish MSS.
British Museum there are: a copy of Plutarch's Lives, with miniatures in a remarkable style (Add.
The Flemish miniatures naturally followed on the lines of painting.
These fill the backgrounds of miniatures and initials, together with other forms of decoration, such as sheets of gold stippled or surface-drawn in various designs.
After this brilliant period decadence sets in; and in the course of the 11th century Frankish illumination sinks to its lowest point, the miniatures being for the most part coarse and clumsy copies of earlier models.
In the miniatures of the 13th century the art of England, of France, and of the Low Countries runs very much in one channel.
Two miniatures so perfect that they give one the feeling of glimpses of Paradise!
The miniatures are said to rival those of the Greek Codex 1028 in the National Library in Paris.
Danesi, Editore, Roma, 1911), with a preface and descriptions of the miniatures by Cosimo Stornajolo.
They used woodcuts to take the place of the miniatures with which the manuscripts were embellished.
Parisian art, which sought to imitate the beautiful miniatures for which Paris had been famous from even before the time when Dante praised them.
This artist was undoubtedly the greatest painter of miniatures who ever lived.
A piece of the artist's handwriting is to be seen at the back of one of his miniatures in the Welbeck Abbey collection, and one of his drawings in black chalk is in the University Gallery at Oxford.
The Byrd was, as usual, attired in miniatures of Sam's overalls, and his red mop stood on ends all over his head, while his freckles shone forth resplendently from the excitement of my arrival.
The first leaf contains a miniature showing Talbot and his wife at prayer under the protection of their patron saints, and many other miniatures are scattered through the rest of the volume.
It afforded no means of livelihood, and Morse had gifts as an artist; in fact, he earned a part of his college expenses painting miniatures at five dollars apiece.
Some of the miniatures which he painted at this time are said to be very good.
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