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	miniature painting miniature painting [Ital.,=artwork, especially manuscript initial letters, done with the red lead pigment minium; the word originally had no implication as to size]. In a general sense the term denotes any small, detailed kind of painting, including medieval illumination and much of the finest... Read more
	Charles Willson Peale Charles Willson Peale , 1741-1827, American portrait painter, naturalist, and inventor, b. Queen Annes County, Md. Early Life Apprenticed to a saddler in Annapolis, he became at 20 his own master and taught himself various other trades—watchmaking, silversmithing, upholstery, and sign... Read more
	Miniature MINIATURE MINIATURE. In Europe, about 1520, the independent miniature, or "limning," evolved from the illuminated manuscript. In eighteenth-century America, a portrait painting was sometimes referred to as a miniature or a limning. Both terms refer to a small painting on a waferthin oval of... Read more
	Rosalba Carriera Rosalba Carriera , 1675-1757, Italian portrait and miniature painter, one of the greatest of her day. At 24 she had achieved a reputation throughout Italy and abroad for her miniatures and crayon portraits. In 1705 she was elected to the Academy of St. Luke (Rome), the Academy of Bologna, and the... Read more
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	Nicholas Hilliard Nicholas Hilliard 1537-1619, English miniature painter, son of a goldsmith. Trained first as a jeweler, he was court painter to Elizabeth and to James I. The first true miniaturist in England, Hilliard was self-taught. He painted meticulous linear portraits on card or vellum, even on the backs of... Read more
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	Rembrandt Peale PEALE, REMBRANDT(b. near Richboro, Pennsylavania, 22 February 1778; d. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3 October 1960)natural history, technology.Rembrandt Peale was the son of Rachel Brewer Peale and Charles Wilson Peale, adistinguished American artist also noted for the innovative scientific displays... Read more
	Ozias Humphry Humphry, Ozias (b Honiton, Devon, 8 Sept. 1742; d London, 9 Mar. 1810). English portrait painter. He worked for a time as a miniaturist in Bath, but settled in London in 1764 on the encouragement of Reynolds. In 1772 a riding accident that affected his eyes made him abandon miniatures and after a... Read more
	John Hoskins Hoskins, John (b c.1590/5; bur. London, 22 Feb. 1665). The leading English portrait miniaturist between c.1620 and c.1640 (from the death of Hilliard to the emergence of Samuel Cooper, Hoskins's nephew and pupil). His early work is a development of Hilliard's style. Later he became a specialist... Read more