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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
Introduction
By Catherine MacLeod
and Alexander Marr
ARTICLE
An Early Impresa Miniature
By Alexander Marr
ARTICLE
Lively Limning
By Christina J. Faraday
ARTICLE
Game of Thrones
By Karin Leonhard
ARTICLE
Negotiating a Courtship between Courts
By William Aslet
ARTICLE
A Portrait of the Miniaturist as a Young Man
By Edward Town
ARTICLE
Isaac Oliver and the Essex Circle
By Catherine MacLeod
ARTICLE
Portrait of an Unknown Lady
By Polly Saltmarsh
ARTICLE
A Very Proper Treatise
By Annemie Leemans
ARTICLE
Secrets of a Silent Miniaturist
By Christine Slottved Kimbriel
and Paola Ricciardi