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www.PortraitMiniatures.comThe premier source for fine portrait miniatures, portrait waxes and intimate drawings, located in a landmark building in Philadelphia open by appointment and at fairs in America and Britain.

01/28/2024

The last day of the famed Winter Show - celebrating its 70th Anniversary. See little Harley Jenness in the Focus Americana presentation.

04/23/2023

"In 17th and 18th century Europe, Black children trafficked from the African continent were used in visual art as a prop to highlight both the wealth and whiteness of their European enslavers. A regular feature of this Black child adornment was to add an expensive pearl earring to their decoration. The enslaved child was not seen as a person, but as a property that signified the wealth of the people or family who commissioned the portrait performance."
----Marjorie H.Morgan/ArtUKdotorg.

By Thomas Rowlandson - yes - that Rowlandson, the celebrated Georgian caricaturist, famed for his b***y satirical and political cartoons, who, after studying at the Royal Academy, produced a small number of strong portraits before turning to illustration.
Thomas Rowlandson (London, 1756-1827). Watercolor over pencil, signed, circa 1785.

See this lovely child at The Philadelphia Show, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, April 27-30.
The Philadelphia Show Philadelphia Museum of Art

10/26/2021

Mary Way began her artistic career making paper dolls. Her “dressed miniatures” profile portraits in watercolor, were actually attired using painted paper, cloth, ribbons and lace. Advertising that she would teach young ladies “Painting, Tambour, Embroidery, Lace Work on Muslin, Reading, Writing, Plain Sewing &c,” in 1809 Way opened a school in her hometown of New London, Connecticut. Finally, at the age of 42 (late middle-age in 1811), she had saved enough to move to New York City. There she met and received informal instruction from the best – John Wesley Jarvis, Joseph Wood and Anson Dickinson. Leaving her quirky profile portraits behind, Way began executing polished portraits on ivory. Recording all she had learned in letters to her sister and niece, both also artists, these are the finest surviving documents on the techniques of miniature painting in Federal New York. But after only 9 years there, like so many other miniaturists, Mary Way lost her sight. When she returned to her family in Connecticut, The American Academy of Fine Arts held a benefit exhibition in her honor.

"The Way Sisters: Miniaturists of the Early Republic" opens at the Lyman Allen Museum in New London, Connecticut on Friday, October 29th, with a fully illustrated catalogue. This is a ground-breaking exhibition - the first ever detailing the remarkable work of Mary Way and her sister, Elizabeth Way Champlain. Lyman Allyn Art Museum

09/15/2021

Finally! Available at your local independent bookshop. Or Amazon - where "Lovers Eyes" is already the #1 new release in Art books!

04/24/2021

The Philadelphia Show is open! Shop till you drop at -ThePhiladelphiaShow.viewingrooms.com until April 30th.
Enjoy!

11/01/2020

Opening Today!
The premiere TEFAF Online, November 1 - 4.
Register: TEFAF.com
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Derrick Guild, RSA "Ever After, Kruseman, Hodges and Batoni.”
Oil on linen in individual frames of gold plated alloy wiith convex glass, 11 x 8 inches, 2020

10/30/2020

TEFAF
A different online experience - November 1- 4, 2020

10/25/2020

A different only experience - one week away!
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10/16/2020

A different online experience.
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06/29/2020

Art from the American Frontier. When, in 1813, artist Richard Verbryck arrived in Cincinnati, it was the frontier. Though self-taught, Verbryck placed a lofty ad touting “drawings and paintings and portraits and landscapes,” all created at Harlow’s tavern on Front Street. The Clopper family, who, like Verbryck, descended from early Dutch settlers in New York, owned a general store on Main Street. In 1827, before their father and three brothers left for the newer frontiers in Texas, the Clopper children decided to all have their miniatures painted “...the boys to leave theirs with their sisters so that there might be a likeness of each to look upon in their absence.” Edward M. Clopper noted in his book “An American Family” about his remarkable ancestors, that “The artist was a customer of the Cloppers, as the Cloppers were patrons of the artist - a refinement of the barter system.” Verbryck’s fee was paid in “sundries.” MaryAnn Catherine Clopper (1807-1875) and Rachel Ruhamah Clopper (1809-1845) were the youngest of the 11 Clopper children. They attended the Cincinnati Female Academy, taught Sunday School and helped run the general store. Predictably - neither ever married.
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Richard Verbryck (1783-1866), portraits of Rachel Ruhamah Clopper & MaryAnn Catherine Clopper, 1827.

02/12/2020

His miniatures “were not fashionable - they were fashion itself.” - William Hazlett.

Even in his earliest portraits, flamboyant miniaturist Richard Cosway understood the importance of accoutrement. He painted this tiny (only 3 cm high) portrait of the luminous Harriet Budd while still a student, circa 1762. Cosway only got better - soon he was dictating fashion to the Prince of Wales.

Richard Cosway (1742-1821) Portrait of Harriet Budd, circa 1762.

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