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>

Term used for

limnings
miniature paintings
miniatures (paintings)
miniatures, portrait
portrait miniatures

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Portrait of a female member of the Austin family of Barbados

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Dunkerley, Joseph (Attributed to)

An image of Miniature (painting)

Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723-92

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Nixon, James

Unknown Man

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Bowring, E.J.

Mrs Susannah Knott and the Misses Dorothy and Catherine Ford Knott

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Shelley, Samuel

Unknown Man

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Des Granges, David

An image of Miniature (painting)

Unknown Man

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Oliver, Isaac I (?)

An image of 3903_2_201803_sjc288_dc1.jpg

Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales 1594-1612

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Oliver, Isaac I

An image of Miniature (painting)

Ludovick Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and Duke of Richmond 1574-1624

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Oliver, Isaac I

An image of Miniature (painting)

Henry VIII (1491-1547)

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Hornebolt, Lucas

An image of PD.5-1950_2_mas_legacy.tif

Colonel Thomas Thornton 1757-1823

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

An Unknown Boy

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

Master John Beresford

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

An image of PD.20-1965_mas.tif

Alexandra Coape

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

Unknown Lady

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

Unknown Man

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

Unknown Man

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

An image of PD.190-1948_1_201408_jas244_dc1.jpg

Todi Ragini seated on a rock beneath a tree, playing the vina, attended by three maids and listened to by nilgai and black buck

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

Unknown Lady

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Smart, John (Imitator of)

An image of Box

Box

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Bayle, Georges de
Box maker: Unknown

An image of Box

Box

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: de Mailly, R.
Box maker: Unknown

An image of Box

Box

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Chazal, Antoine
Box maker: Unknown

An image of Plaque

Plaque

Maker(s)

Painter: Unknown

An image of Miniature (painting)

Unknown Lady

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

An image of Marlay 40-pl.2_201409_kly25_dc1.jpg

A lady with a white crane in a landscape

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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