ther, a pupil of Lely. A signed miniature. Lady Molesworth, byBernard Lens {1682-1740) brings us to a periodwhen competition seems chiefly centred uponthe attempt to reduce the scale on which a headcould be painted. Miniatures in which the styleis too bold for the proportions of the… … KING WILLIAM in. (1650-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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