A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting from Renaissance art, usually executed in gouache, watercolour, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures i
A display case with 18th-century portrait miniatures at the National Museum in Warsaw.
Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1535–36
Christian Horneman's miniature portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven (1802).
The future Duke of Wellington in 1808, by Richard Cosway.
Richard Crosse was an English painter of portrait miniatures. He was a contemporary of John Smart, George Engleheart, Richard Cosway and William Wood.
Self-portrait in miniature, c. 1780. Held by Victoria and Albert Museum
Richard Crosse, Portrait of Unknown Man, c1770, Victoria & Albert Museum
Richard Crosse, Portrait of Unknown Woman, c1780, Victoria & Albert Museum