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Issue 17 – September 2020

Elizabethan and Jacobean Miniature Paintings in Context Edited by Catharine MacLeod and Alexander Marr

Watercolours. Two portraits show the same man with pale skin, grey eyes, a pointed nose, brown hair, and a full, bushy beard against a vivid blue background. They both wear black jerkins with white collars, though the collar to our left drapes down and other flares up, like flower petals. The portrait on our left tapers at the bottom, like a guitar pick. The portrait on our right is oval. — Left portrait: Isaac Oliver, Ludovick Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, later Duke of Richmond, circa 1605, watercolour on vellum, laid onto table-book leaf, 5.7 x 4.4 cm. Collection of National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 3063); Right portrait: Isaac Oliver, Ludovick Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, later Duke of Richmond, circa 1603, watercolour on vellum, laid on card, 4.9 x 4 cm. Collection of Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (FM 3869). Digital image courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, London (All rights reserved); Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (All rights reserved).

INTRODUCTION

By Catherine MacLeod
and Alexander Marr

ARTICLE

An Early Impresa Miniature: Man in an Armillary Sphere (1569)

By Alexander Marr

ARTICLE

Lively Limning: Presence in Portrait Miniatures and John White’s Images of the New World

By Christina J. Faraday

ARTICLE

Game of Thrones: Early Modern Playing Cards and Portrait Miniature Painting

By Karin Leonhard

ARTICLE

Negotiating a Courtship between Courts: Hilliard’s Prayer Book Portraits of Queen Elizabeth and the Duc d’Anjou

By William Aslet

ARTICLE

A Portrait of the Miniaturist as a Young Man: Nicholas Hilliard and the Painters of 1560s London

By Edward Town

ARTICLE

Isaac Oliver and the Essex Circle

By Catherine MacLeod

ARTICLE

Portrait of an Unknown Lady: Technical Analysis of an Early Tudor Miniature

By Polly Saltmarsh

ARTICLE

A Very Proper Treatise: Specialist Knowledge for a Non-Specialist Public

By Annemie Leemans

ARTICLE

Secrets of a Silent Miniaturist: Findings from a Technical Study of Miniatures Attributed to Isaac Oliver

By Christine Slottved Kimbriel
and Paola Ricciardi