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Book Review
British Portrait Miniatures from the Thomson Collection
04/2025 | 1465 | 167
Pages: 418-419
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Lloyd, Stephen (Lloyd, Stephen)
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British Portrait Miniatures from the Thomson Collection By Susan Sloman. 311 pp. incl. 225 col. ills. (Ad Ilissvm, London, 2024), £80. ISBN 978–1– 915401–12–0. | :
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1. Henry Stuart, Earl of Ross and 1st Duke of Albany, styled Lord Darnley. c.1560. Watercolour on vellum, 3.5 by 3 cm. (Thomson Collection). 1915. Opaque watercolour over graphite, 45.7 by 55.9 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
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2. Michael Topping, by John Smart. c.1795. Graphite on paper, 29.3 by 24.7 cm. (Thomson Collection).
Article
Portable diplomacy: Louis XIV’s ‘boîtes à portrait’
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1036–43
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Happé, Samantha (Happé, Samantha)
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1. Boîte à portrait of Louis XIV, by Pierre or Laurent Le Tessier de Montarsy. 1681. Enamelled gold, silver and diamonds, height 9 cm. (Palazzo Pepoli, Museo della Storia di Bologna).
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10. Portrait, by Jean-Frédéric Bruckmann (enamel) and Pierre or Laurent Le Tessier de Montarsy (setting). Before 1696. Enamel and diamonds, 3.5 by 3 cm. (shown actual size). (Private collection).
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11. Reverse of Fig.10.
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12. Louis XIV of France riding a horse, by Pierre Mignard I. 1674. Oil on canvas, 312 by 301 cm. (Château de Versailles).
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13. Allegory of Louis XIV, protector of the Arts and Sciences, by Jean Garnier and Claude Lefebvre. 1670–72. Oil on canvas, 174 by 223 cm. (Château de Versailles; Bridgeman Images).
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14. Detail of Fig.1, showing Louis XIV dressed as a Roman emperor.
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15. L’Escalette, by Sébastien Le Clerc. 1683–94. Engraving, 45.2 by 38.3 cm. (Library of Congress, Washington).
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2. Boîte à portrait of Louis XIV, by Jean Pitan le Jeune and Jean I Petitot. c.1674. Gold, enamel, silver and diamonds, 7.2 cm. by 4.6 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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3. Reverse of Fig.2.
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4. Boîte à portrait of Louis XIV, by Pierre or Laurent Le Tessier de Montarsy. 1683. Enamelled gold, silver and diamonds, height 9.6 cm. (shown actual size). (Kunstmuseum, The Hague).
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5. Boîte à portrait of Louis XIV, by Jean Pitan le Jeune and Jean I Petitot. c.1674. Gold, enamel, silver and diamonds, 7.2 cm. by 4.6 cm. (shown actual size). (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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6. Reverse of Fig.5.
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7. Top: miniature case, 1660–80. Gold enamelled in blue, white, black and pink, 8.9 by 5.4 cm. (shown actual size). (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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8. Bottom: reverse of Fig.7.
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9. Portrait of an unknown man, by Robert Vauquer. 1660s. Enamel, metal and diamonds, 2.5 by 2.2 cm. (shown actual size). (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Book Review
Miniature Painting in the Nationalmuseum: A World-Class Collection
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1168-1170
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Lloyd, Stephen (Lloyd, Stephen)
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Miniature Painting in the Nationalmuseum: A World-Class Collection By Magnus Olausson. 400 pp. incl. 753 col. ills. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2021), £80.50. ISBN 978–91–7100–910–4. | :
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5. Interior of Judge Carl Fredrik Dahlgren’s home, Malmskillnadsgatan 7, Stockholm, c.1894–95. (Photograph Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
Exhibition Review
Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 414-416
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Hearn, Karen (Hearn, Karen)
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5. Francis Bacon, later Baron Verulam and Viscount St Alban, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1578. Watercolour and bodycolour with gold on vellum, laid on card, 6 by 4.7 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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6. Unknown woman with a jewelled hat, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1585. Watercolour and bodycolour with gold and silver on vellum, laid on a playing card with four diamonds visible on the reverse, 5.4 by 4.2 cm. (Portland Collection; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
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7. Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, by Isaac Oliver. c.1596. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, laid on card, 6.5 by 5.2 cm. (Private collection; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Article
An English artist at the Valois court: a portrait of Henri III by Nicholas Hilliard
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 102-111
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Aslet, William (Aslet, William)
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BURGIO, Lucia (BURGIO, Lucia)
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Cachaud, Céline (Cachaud, Céline)
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Derbyshire, Alan (Derbyshire, Alan)
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Rutherford, Emma (Rutherford, Emma)
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1. Henri III of France, by Nicholas Hilliard. Here dated c.1576. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum stuck to playing card, 5 by 3.7 cm. (Djanogly Collection).
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11. François Hercule, duc d’Alençon and Anjou. Here dated c.1578. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum stuck to pasteboard, 5.8 by 4.9 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
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3. Reverse of Fig.2, showing the maker’s stamp ‘JP’ or ‘PJ’.
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4. Coronation medal of Henri III, attributed to Germain Pilon. 1575. Bronze, diameter 16.3 cm. (British Museum, London).
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5. Detail of Fig.1 showing the lace ruff.
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7. Portrait of a gentleman, here proposed as Pierre de Ronsard, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1577. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum stuck to playing card, height 5.1 by 4.4 cm. (Private collection).
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8. Pierre de Ronsard, by Benjamin Foulon. 1580–85. Black and red chalk on paper, 33 by 23 cm. (The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
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9. and 10. François Hercule, duc d’Alençon and Anjou and Queen Elizabeth I, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1579. From Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer Book, with Six Prayers Composed by Her Majesty and Written by Herself in English, French, Latin, Greek, and Italian, etc., Southwood 1893 (The British Library, London; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Fig.1 in a Renaissance-revival pierced frame. Nineteenth century. Cherry wood, 20.5 by 12.5 cm. (Djanogly Collection).
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6. Henri III. France, after 1576. Oil on paper, 13.5 by 9.8 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Article
Nicholas Hilliard’s portraits of Elizabeth I and Sir Amias Paulet
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 716-726
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Bayliss, Sarah (Bayliss, Sarah)
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Carey, Juliet (Carey, Juliet)
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Town, Edward (Town, Edward)
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1. Self-portrait, aged thirty, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1577. Watercolour on vellum put down on card, diameter 4.1 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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10. Alice Brandon, Mrs Hilliard, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1578. Watercolour on vellum mounted on card, 5.9 by 5.75 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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11. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1578. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum mounted on card, 6 by 4.7 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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12. Above Details of eyes in (a) Fig.6 photographed in normal light; (b) Fig.6 photographed in raking light; and (c) Fig.11.
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13. (a) Detail of Sir Walter Raleigh, by Nicholas Hilliard, showing lace from the ruff. c.1585. Watercolour on vellum, 4.8 by 4.1 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London); and (b) Detail of Fig.6 in raking light showing lace from the ruff.
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14. Detail of Fig.5 photographed in (a) normal light; and (b) raking light, showing the impasto of the sitter’s curls of hair.
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15. Infra-red reflectography detail of Fig.5, showing earring and curls of hair.
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16. Detail of Fig.5, showing wet-on-wet stippling in the lips.
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17. Detail of Fig.6, showing the medallion.
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18. Cast of a Renaissance cameo depicting a maenad, by James Tassie. Eighteenth century. Plaster. (Photograph The Beazley Archive, The Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford).
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19. François I, by Jean Clouet. c.1530. Panel, 96 by 74 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Queen Elizabeth I, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1572. Watercolour on vellum, 5.1 by 4.8 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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20. A Woman at her bath, by François Clouet. c.1571. Panel, 92.3 by 81.2 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington; Bridgeman Images).
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21. Louis de Gonzague, duc de Nevers, and Heriette de Cleves, duchesse de Nevers, after Nicholas Hilliard. 1578. Woodcut. From The English Miniature, by Roy Strong, London 1983, p.79.
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22. Top left François Hercule, Duc d’Alençon, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1580. Watercolour on vellum mounted on card, 4.8 by 3.9 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
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23. Top right A woman, called Marguerite of Valois, Queen of Navarre, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1577. Watercolour and gouache on vellum, 5.7 by 4.5 cm. (Photograph Sotheby’s, London).
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24. Bottom left Unknown man, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1577. Watercolour and gouache on vellum, 5.8 by 6.4 cm. (Musée Condé, Chantilly).
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25. Bottom right A gentleman in a black doublet and cloak, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1577. Watercolour and gouache on vellum. Height 5 cm. (Photograph Christie’s, London; Bridgeman Images).
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3. Queen Elizabeth I (‘The Pelican portrait’), by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1575. Panel, 78.7 by 61 cm. (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool).
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4. Queen Elizabeth I (‘The Phoenix portrait’), by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1575. Panel, 78.7 by 61 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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5. Queen Elizabeth I, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1576-78. Panel, 81.5 by 61.2 cm. (Rothschild Family; photograph © Hamilton Kerr Institute).
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6. Sir Amias Paulet, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1576–78. Panel, 81.5 by 61 cm. (Rothschild Family; photograph © Hamilton Kerr Institute).
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7. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Steven van der Meulen. c.1564. Panel, 107 by 80 cm. (Rothschild Family; photograph © Waddesdon Image Library).
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8. Lord Rothschild’s bedroom at Tring Park, by H. Bedford Lemere. c.1890. From an album entitled Photographs of Tring Park by H. Bedford Lemere, 1890. (The Rothschild Archive, London).
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9. Sir Amias Paulet, by an unknown artist after Nicholas Hilliard. Canvas, 59 by 47 cm. (Government House, Jersey).
Article
Gerard ter Borch's unknown oil miniature of the Duke of Longueville
02/2017 | 1367 | 159
Pages: 109-116
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Walczak, Gerrit (Walczak, Gerrit)
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29. Henry II d'Orléans, due de Longueville, here attributed to Gerard ter Borch. c.1646-48 (The Tansey Miniatures Foundation, Celle)
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30. Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville, by Paulus Pontius after Anselm van Hulle after Gerard ter Borch. 1648 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
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31. Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville, by Anselm van Hulle after Gerard ter Borch. c.1646-48 (Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel)
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32. Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville, by Gerard ter Borch. c.1646-48 (Stadtmuseum, Münster)
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33. Gaspar de Bracamonte y Guzman, condé de Peñaranda, by Gerard ter Borch. c.1646-48 (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam)
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34. Caspar van Kinschot, by Gerard ter Borch. c.1646-48 (Private collection, on loan to the Mauritshuis, The Hague)
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35. The swearing of the oath of the ratification of the Treaty of Münster, 15 May 1648, by Gerard ter Borch. 1648 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, on loan from the National Gallery, London)
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36. Cuniera van der Cocq, by or after Frans van Mieris the Elder. c.1657-58 (Collectie Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden)
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37. Cuniera van der Cocq, by Frans van Mieris the Elder. c.1657-58 (National Gallery, London)
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38. Young woman with a letter and a medallion, by Caspar Netscher. 1667 (Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel)
Book Review
European Portrait Miniatures: Artists, Functions and Collections, B. Pappe, J. Schmieglitz-Otten and G. Walczak, eds.
10/2015 | 1351 | 157
Pages: 714-715
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Caffrey, Paul (Caffrey, Paul)
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Book Review
British Portrait Miniatures. The Cleveland Museum of Art, C. Korkow with the assistance of J.L. Seydl
05/2015 | 1346 | 157
Pages: 349-350
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Lloyd, Stephen (Lloyd, Stephen)
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57. Sir Anthony Mildmay, by Nicholas Hilliard (Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio)
Short Notice
A portrait of the king of Naples in ‘pietre dure’
06/2008 | 1263 | 150
Pages: 397-400
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González-Palacios, Alvar (González-Palacios, Alvar; Palacios, Alvar González-)
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34. Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples, by Francesco Ghinghi. c.1740. Pietre dure mosaic relief with a gilt-bronze frame, 32 by 22.5 cm. (frame). (Private collection, Paris).
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35. Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples, by Antonio Sebastiani. 1736. Canvas, 100 by 75 cm. (Reales Alcázares, Seville).
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36. Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, Electress Palatine, here attributed to Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli. 1705? Pietre dure mosaic in relief, fixed to an ebony, gilt-bronze and pietra dura clock of Florentine manufacture; at the base a commesso relief of an angel also attributed to Torricelli. (Residenz, Munich).
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37. The Annunciation, by Francesco Ghinghi and the Real Laboratorio delle pietre dure di Napoli. c.1739–42. Pietre dure, 85 by 75 cm., with an ebony and gilt-bronze frame, the bronzes attributed to Giacomo Ceci and his son. (Palacio Real, Madrid).
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38. A gilt-bronze embellishment from one of the tables made for Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples, c.1738–49. The bronzes are attributed to Giacomo Ceci. (Palacio Real, Madrid).
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