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--- Artists and Ancestors --- Miniature Portrait Art Collection: August 2015 - A new book

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Artists and Ancestors - - Miniature Portrait Art Collection. An Internet Art Exhibition displaying portrait miniatures from the 17C to the 20C. August 2015 - A new book. Even so, I believe the research is still less than half complete. In a nutshell, the Smollett Project is a huge cryptic crossword, one which seeks to determine which anonymous or pseudonymous (a/p) works published in 1737-70 were authored or edited by Tobias Smollett. For 1732-66 The London Magazine. The book is of 384 pages, comprising ...

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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...

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2008 - Additions and Comment: More from the Market

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2008 - 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. More from the Market. The Market for Miniatures. Included in recent sales of miniature portraits which have caught my eye over the past month, are several which I believe are decorative copies. Some were advertised as if they were genuine, although I question their genuineness. It was signed "G Freeman". Given the false use ...

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2008 - Additions and Comment: December - The market - fake and genuine miniatures

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2008 - 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 - The market - fake and genuine miniatures. As a little test, albeit unscientific, I recently did a search on eBay in the Art category, using the two words; "ivory" and "miniature", just to see what proportion were fakes! Also what proportion of the genuine miniatures were worth bidding on for the average collector.

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2008 - Additions and Comment: November - "Blog following" and the market place

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2008 - 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. November - "Blog following" and the market place. 8250; Blogger Help. 8250; Customize Your Blog. 8250; Advanced Use. 8250; What is Following? Do you have a favorite blog and want to let the author and readers know that you are a fan? Well now you can do that and more with the Blogger Following feature! If you elected to foll...

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2008 - Additions and Comment: Two Additions

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2008 - 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. An American Addition and a British Addition. The first addition is rather special. This American miniature portrait on ivory dating from 1820 is special on several counts. Firstly, it was painted by an early 19C female artist in the United States, at a time when female artists were very much in the minority. More about the t...

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2008 - Additions and Comment: November - more from the market, fake and genuine

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2008 - 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. November - more from the market, fake and genuine. I recently mentioned two fake miniatures of George Washington offered at auction by a well known Dallas auction house, which were claimed to be genuine. See George Washington and the 2008 Financial Crisis - part 4. It offered by a different auction house based in Poughkeepsi...

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Background to Miniature Portraits: Guest Gallery

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Background to Miniature Portraits. This is part of the Artists and Ancestors collection of miniature portraits. For the start page click on Home. This gallery has been opened to display images of quality portrait miniatures submitted by private owners of limited numbers of miniatures who wish to share their images and help enhance the exhibition as a reference collection of privately owned miniatures. Which shows a selection from a French collector's collection of 18C and early 19C French miniatures.

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2008 - Additions and Comment: Miniatures of George Washington - fake and genuine.

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2008 - 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. Miniatures of George Washington - fake and genuine. George Washington - More Miniature Portraits. Regularly I seem to need to comment on fake miniature portraits of George Washington. Normally they are fakes, and here are several different miniatures of George Washington offered for sale at auction recently. And; "This is on...

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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 ...