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Framed and ready for it's new home. . #portrait #portraitminiature #miniatureportrait #blackdog #blackwolf #blackgermanshepherd #germanshepherd #illustration #darkart #watercolour #watercolorartist #watercolor #vintageframe #commission #petportrait #petcommission (at New Haven, Connecticut) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_4uBD_pwL6/?igshid=nxr8pk44ufi9

In 1805, 19 year old Maria Bellett Roberts left her parents’ substantial home in Somerset to travel to Calcutta with her brother. Possibly seeking adventure, but more likely seeking a husband in a country where the percentage of men to women was sometimes calculated at 40 to 1, it took Maria only a year to become the wife of Colonel Marmaduke Browne of the Royal Artillery. Mrs. Browne, a glittering hostess, often entertained George Chinnery, India’s most celebrated portraitist. Already a talented amateur artist, Mrs. Browne began taking instruction from Chinnery, quickly becoming his most accomplished student. She collaborated with Chinnery on his “Treatise” describing the theory and practice of painting. His letters to her (British Museum) spell out his methods for painting miniatures. As a result of this enviable training, Maria, who often signed her works “Mrs. Marmaduke Browne,” became one of the most popular miniaturists in Calcutta. Her account book listing her sitters was primarily a list of her friends (whom she rarely charged) — Sir Charles & Lady D’Oyly, Lord Moira and Mrs. Siddons. After giving birth to 4 children, with her health failing, in 1823 Maria Bellett Browne ended her India adventure, returning to her family in Somerset, where she died in 1828. *************************************** Jane Eliza Russell, later Lady Russell by Maria Bellett Browne, 1816. *************************************** One of a select collection of portrait miniatures by British artists working in India to be exhibited at TEFAF New York Fall, opening one month from today at the Park Avenue Armory. *************************************** @tefaf_art_fair @parkavearmory #TEFAF #TEFAF2019 #TEFAFNY #ParkAvenueArmory #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MiniaturePortrait #MiniaturePortraits #AngloIndianArt #BritishArtistsinIndia #HistoricArt #elleshushan #Harp #BritishMiniature #JaneElizaRussell #LadyRussell #MariaBellettBrowne https://www.instagram.com/p/B3FxwwxnwyG/?igshid=9hz5g8fvuvmn

“Eccentric genius, poet, engraver, painter and mystic,” William Blake was everything but a portraitist, declaring “Portrait Painting is the direct contrary to Designing & Historical Painting in every respect.” Dismissive and perhaps defensive. Blake’s miniatures (who even knew he painted miniatures?) are on view in the dazzling exhibition of Blake’s work at Tate Britain. All his miniatures appear to have been grudgingly executed for financially important patrons who pushed him. Poet William Hayley commissioned Blake to copy Romney’s portrait of William Cowper (image 3) in miniature. It is certainly the best of the group. But Blake complained about Hayley to Thomas Butts (image 1) “...he thinks he can turn me into a portrait painter as he did poor Romney.” Thomas and Elizabeth Butts (image 2) kept Blake solvent for decades, purchasing as many as 200 works from the artist, including these portraits. They must have been pleased Blake was also a visionary. *************************************** @tatebritainlondon @britishmuseum The British Museum - images 1 & 2, @cowpnewtmuseum The Cowper and Newton Museum - image 3. *************************************** #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MiniaturePortraits #MiniaturePortrait #HistoricArt #elleshushan #BritishArt #BritishPortrait #BritishPortraitMiniature #WilliamBlake #WilliamBlakeArt (at Tate Britain) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2h0veznJCD/?igshid=1r36jcuq85h28

The message of miniatures can be intriguing. At first glance - simply an aristocrat of a certain age draped in satin and lace, sporting a rope of colossal pearls. But the portrait says more. Purple was the color worn in the second year of mourning. The black feathers crowning her piled-high hair are the confirmation. Does her faithful spaniel evince her fidelity to the husband she lost? And if there is no husband, then who was the recipient of the diamond-set locket? Even the artist remains a mystery. A favorite of the upper-classes in the 1770’s, he signed his miniatures with the letter “V”. His full name has been lost to history - he is now known only as “The Artist V”. *************************************** By the Artist V, circa 1775. From the spectacular collection of the Tansey Miniatures Foundation, Celle, Germany. *************************************** #TanseyMiniaturesFoundation #TanseyMiniatures #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MiniaturePortrait #MiniaturePortraits #elleshushan #WearableArt #BritishArt #BritishPortraiture #BritishPortraitMiniature #HistoricArt #TheArtistV #JewelryWithAFace #JewelleryWithAFace #DiamondLocket https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ruEuAH3Y_/?igshid=1uimbg454123j

“Bring it on cup cakes...!” Cyril being worked/painted-up. Oil painting over acrylic primer. Hughfiguren. Royal Navy Midshipman c1800. Miniature Scale Bust Painting Project. #historicalminiaturessociety #historicalminiatures #bustpainting #portraitminiature #modelbust #miniature #traditionalpainting #napoleonic #neoclassical #artistsofinstagram #paintersofinstagram #vermillionhugh #hughfiguren #mitchesmilitarymodels #oilpainting #oilpaint #scalebust #sculpt #sculpture #bust #paintersonline #paintersofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B1gjT9qH1nB/?igshid=wwyxbjla7ses

So obsessed was miniaturist Samuel Andrews with the work of John Smart that he moved into a house in India in which Smart had resided. After being refused official passage, Andrews utilized one of the many devious methods to get to India, arriving in Madras in 1791. In Madras he produced lively portraits so like Smart’s that it is occasionally difficult to differentiate. But, in 1798, Andrews moved to Calcutta. There he developed his own unique style - profiles resembling carved marble, placed against a dark background. Stunning. The demand was great; his patrons for those unparalleled portraits included Lord Cornwallis and Marquis Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington). Andrews never made it home to Ireland. He died in Patna in 1807 at the age of 40. ************************************** Samuel Andrews, signed & dated Calcutta, 1804. Provenance: The Duke of Atholl, Blair Castle. *************************************** #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #HistoricArt #MiniaturePortraits #elleshushan #SamuelAndrews #BritishArtistsinIndia #Profile https://www.instagram.com/p/B1KQ64Ln7ul/?igshid=10qbpwyljmxlr

Sarah Yocum McFadden Boyle - a mouthful of names for an artist - and yes, she used every one of them. A native of Philadelphia, she studied with Howard Pyle. Pyle produced the best - N.C. Wyeth, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Violet Oakley. You can see the influence though she never achieved their celebrity. But “Little Sleepy Dragonfly” did. A star all on his own, Dragonfly has even been turned into stained glass. Held in the collection of the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, “Little Sleepy Dragonfly” was gifted to the Philadelphia Museum of Art with many other stellar pieces in 1954. ************************************* Sarah Yocum McFadden Boyle (active 1909-1940), “Little Sleepy Dragonfly” 1928. @philamuseum #PhiladelphiaMuseumofArt *********************************** #PortraitMiniature #PortraitMiniatures #MinaturePortrait #MiniaturePortraits #AmericanArt #elleshushan #HistoricArt #AmericanPortraitMiniature #SleepyLittleDragonfly (at Philadelphia Museum of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0mKVpWH6FV/?igshid=gvjpvuy8nhlv