Frederick Hollyer celebrity portraiture
Photographer Frederick Hollyer took many celebrity portrait photographs of artists and craftspeople.…
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Francis Williams - a portrait of an early black writer
This is a portrait of Francis Williams, the first recorded black writer in the British Empire. It was painted aroun…
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Portrait miniatures: Nicholas Hilliard & Isaac Oliver
From his workshop in Gutter Lane, London, Nicholas Hilliard painted both courtiers and other wealthy patrons.…
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Portrait miniatures: other types of small portraiture
This section looks at four other small portrait types which competed successfully with the portrait miniature; so-c…
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Subjects for sculpture: portrait busts
Funerary monuments and portrait busts were the most common ways in which people were commemorated in sculpture. Som…
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Temple and worship in China
There are three main systems of belief in China: Daoism (sometimes written Taoism), Buddhism and Confucianism.…
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Frederick Hollyer
Frederick Hollyer adapted new technical developments in photography to create a unique visual record of London life at the dawn of the 20th century. His portrait photographs offer us a glimpse into late-Victorian and Edwardian celebrity culture. The Victoria and Albert Museum holds a remarkable collection of Hollyer portraits - nearly 200 platinum prints contained in three chintz-covered albums - and also some of his reproductions.
Portrait miniatures: Susannah-Penelope Rosse
These miniatures are a delightfully intimate record of the artist, her relations and friends. Susannah's father was Richard Gibson, a miniaturist who learned to paint when a page to Charles I.
Portrait miniatures: the 18th century
ARTISTS IN FOCUS A New Generation of Miniaturists In the early 18th century miniaturists had experimented with ways to make it easier to paint on ivory with watercolour. These included roughening the ivory, degreasing it and making the paint stickier.
Portrait miniatures: royal portraiture 1580-1625
Miniatures were particularly useful to the monarchy. They were small enough to be given personally, sometimes in a public ceremony, as a sign of the monarch's favour.
Portrait miniatures: from John Hoskins to Samuel Cooper
We do not know who taught John Hoskins miniature painting. But, like Isaac Oliver's son Peter, he used real silver and gold to create jewels, a technique invented by Hilliard.
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Woman's portrait (Custom print)
Woman's portrait, by Alphonse Mucha (20 x 25 cm print, Satin Finish)
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