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Miniature (painting)

Scope note

Use for paintings on a very small scale, especially the portraits on vellum or ivory popular in England and America from the Renaissance into the 19th century. For paintings in Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, use "illustrations."

This term has 927 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Object name
Object category

Getty AAT term number

300033936

Broader Terms used

<paintings by form>

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Girl musician

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

Shawcas Padshaw

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

Shaw Jehan Padshaw

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

Unknown Lady

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

Miniature: portrait of a painter

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Lens, Bernard III (Attributed to)

Charles II 1630-85

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Dixon, Nicholas (School of)

Unknown Lady

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Hone, Nathaniel I

Unknown Man

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

A Lady of the Pinfold Family

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Hoskins, John I (School of)

Sir Nicholas Carew d. 1539

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Hornebolt, Gerard (Attributed to)

Portrait of Josiah Walley

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Hayter, George (Perhaps)

Unknown Lady

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Hazlitt, John

Unknown Lady

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Cosway, Richard

Mrs Marlay

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Ford, Charles

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