Portrait Miniatures – The Original Classic Edition

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Portrait Miniatures. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. npnThis is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by George C. Williamson, which is now, at last, again available to you.npnGet the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Portrait Miniatures in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous – Get it NOW.npnEnjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Portrait Miniatures:npnLook inside the book: pUntil quite recently the statement made by Vertue that Hoskins had a son, was incapable of proof; although the fact that the contemporary inscriptions on some of the miniatures at Ham House speak of ‘Old Hoskins,’ implies that there must have been a younger man of the same name, and it was thought that the variety of signatures might help clear up the doubtful question, and that perhaps the father adopted a certain method of signing his portraits, and the son another form of signature. nn…If, as seems most probable, the attribution of this portrait is correct, it gives us a view of Milton at a period of his life of which we have no other portrait, for it must have been painted when he Was about 48, and it bears out Aubrey’s remarks about him, in which he speaks of his reddish hair, of his ‘exceeding fayre complexion,’ of his oval face, and tells us that he was ‘a spare man.’ nn…Here and there we have scraps of information respecting their history, details concerning the place where they resided, a few dates, and now and again an inscription on the back of a miniature to guide us; but of the vast majority of those who exhibited at the early exhibitions we know little, and of many of them it is not necessary that we should know very much, as their work was neither especially remarkable, nor especially praiseworthy.

Additional ISBNs: 9781486439126, 1486439128, 9781486447008, 1486447007