Portrait miniature
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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.
Locket
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A locket is a pendant that opens to reveal a space used for storing a photograph or other small items such as a lock of hair. Lockets are usually given as gifts during holidays and special occasions l
Portrait miniature
…painted with watercolour on ivory, which had now become relatively cheap. As small in size as 40 mm × 30 mm, portrait miniatures were often fitted into lockets, inside watch-covers or pieces of jewellery so that they could be carried on the person. Others were framed with stands or hung on a wall, or fitted…
A late 17th-century locket, depicting the head of King Charles I (reigned 1625–1649)