5 5/8" h. x 4 3/4" w. 5 7/8" h. x 5 1/8" w. 6 3/4" h. x 4 1/4" w.

The word "miniature" was originally associated with the creation of small images and portraits. Tiny, often expensive likenesses—requiring a highly trained artist with good eyesight and a steady ...

At first they look like regular paintings - beautiful, and bursting with talent – but regular nonetheless. And then, it strikes you that these photographic images are barely larger than your thumbnail ...

I am an average painter. Maybe a little above. I want to be really clear about what I mean by this. There are times I knock it out of the park with a painted miniature, as with my Great Unclean One ...

A few years ago, the British Library acquired an interesting group of miniatures painted on ivory and laid down on paper supports with identifying inscriptions, still mostly with their original glass.