ature was on ivorv, but withCosway, Engleheart, and Plimer the miniaturerecovers breadth of draughtsmanship. Indeedthe late eighteenth-century miniaturists allowedthemselves considerable looseness of style, andthev often found it convenient to enlarge theminiature to a size out of keeping with its… … KING WILLIAM III. (165O-I702)ARTIST UNKNOWN intimacy which will ever remain the soul of theminiature portrait. A picture in little becomes a fiddling thing when it is on a scaleas small as Lenss Lady Molesworth. Such ascale leaves no room for ease, and while therepresentation of character suffers,…
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