miniature portraits
Small painted faces
Miniature portraits are small painted likenesses, typically under six inches, historically worn as jewelry or kept in lockets.
Before photography, they served as intimate keepsakes of loved ones, painted on ivory, vellum, or metal.
The form flourished from the 16th through 19th centuries: She wore a miniature portrait of her late husband on a ribbon around her neck.
- gouacheOpaque water-based medium
- likenessVisual similarity or representation
- keepsakeItem preserved for sentiment
- sitterTemporary child caretaker
- court painterArtist serving a monarch
locket · pocket watch · hidden compartment · oval frame · watercolor · ivory · medallion · patronage · brushwork · Renaissance · pigments · hand painted · identity · vellum · limner · silhouette · Victorian era · mourning jewelry
- antiquesantiques, antique furniture, antique, antique coins, Greek vases
- miniaturesfigurines, figurine, scale models, dollhouses, dollhouse
- Portrait Artbusts, famous faces, public figures, political figures, commissions
- portraitsheadshot, headshots, profile, profile picture, profile shot
- American portraitsfounding fathers, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Martha Washington
- portraitureheadshot, profile view, three quarter view, frontal view, full length
miniature portraitspublic monuments
Structures commemorating collective heritage
official portraits · Mount Rushmore · equestrian statues · presidential portraits · commemorative statues
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