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2009/2016 - Additions and Comment: May 2014 - An important addition

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2009/2016 - Additions and Comment. This is part of the Artists and Ancestors miniature portrait collection. Click on Home to return to the start page. Click on my photo for my email link. May 2014 - An important addition. The purchase of this miniature does illustrate how it is possible to find miniatures by important artists at bargain prices, even if not every day. It is just necessary to gradually keep on accumulating knowledge and keeping one's eyes open for any opportunities that may arise. Research...

2009/2016 - Additions and Comment: December 2013 - Additions and Comments

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2009/2016 - Additions and Comment. This is part of the Artists and Ancestors miniature portrait collection. Click on Home to return to the start page. Click on my photo for my email link. December 2013 - Additions and Comments. Anyway, apart from that "grumpy old man" (! The essay will discuss Hogarth's famous series of engravings The Four Stages of Cruelty. Closely into social concerns, medicine, and literature of 1750/52, including the origins of the 1752/53 Paper War. Photographic portraits of Sir Win...

2009/2016 - Additions and Comment: September 2014 - News and publications

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2009/2016 - Additions and Comment. This is part of the Artists and Ancestors miniature portrait collection. Click on Home to return to the start page. Click on my photo for my email link. September 2014 - News and publications. For those collectors with a specialised interest in European miniatures, or even those wider collectors with a more generalised interest, this excellent book of essays has recently been published. The book European Portrait Miniatures - Artists, Functions and Collections. Claudia ...

2009/2016 - Additions and Comment: February 2014 - Some American Additions

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2009/2016 - Additions and Comment. This is part of the Artists and Ancestors miniature portrait collection. Click on Home to return to the start page. Click on my photo for my email link. February 2014 - Some American Additions. Time has been found to catch up on and add to the collection, several American miniature portraits acquired at various times in the past year or so. Math prodigy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Samuel John Stump (1778-1863) was a very competent artist who is believed to have...

2009/2016 - Additions and Comment: April 2012 - Discussing Joseph Wood

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2009/2016 - Additions and Comment. This is part of the Artists and Ancestors miniature portrait collection. Click on Home to return to the start page. Click on my photo for my email link. April 2012 - Discussing Joseph Wood. The acquisition of an attractive miniature of a naval officer, see View. Has been an interesting exercise and led to the decision to write the following brief paper to try to add and share knowledge about a little researched artist. I have to start by saying that I believe they are b...