Artist: Nellie M. Hepburn Edmunds 1913Lady Barber in a Lilac Dress Medium watercolour on ivory Dimensions 127 mm Origin England Collection Lady Barber Collection, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts (B/1/46) Nellie Hepburn Edmunds was a British artist trained at…
Artist: Unknown · 10 June 1927 (inscribed)Printed certificate for membership of ‘The Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Engravers’, issued for Rosalie M. Emslie Medium Print, lithograph printed on vellum Dimensions 303 x 317 mm Origin England Collection V&A…
Artist: Rosalie M. Emslie · about 1905-10Self-Portrait Medium watercolour on ivory Dimensions 36 x 30 mm Origin England Collection V&A (E.488-2010) Rosalie M. Emslie was a London-based miniature painter working in the early twentieth century. She exhibited at the Royal…
Artist: Sarah Biffin · 1811The Reverend William Pateshall (1779–1832) Medium watercolour on ivory Dimensions 76 x 60 mm Origin Oxford Collection V&A (P.22-1954) Sarah Biffin was born to a farm labourer in Somerset, in 1784. Biffin was born without hands,…
Artist: Anne Mee · about 1784-1815Frances, Countess of Dartmouth (1733-1805) Medium watercolour on ivory Dimensions 64 x 52 mm Origin England Collection V&A (EVANS.163) Anne Mee came from an artistic family, and probably received her early training from her father,…
Artist: Anne Mee · about 1795Self-Portrait Medium watercolour on ivory Dimensions 76 x 57 mm Origin England Collection V&A (P.12-1962) Mee specialised in watercolour on ivory miniatures, a small and intimate format that was particularly popular among the British upper…
Artist: Penelope Carwardine · about 1760Portrait of a Lady Medium watercolour on ivory Dimensions 33 x 28mm Origin England Collection V&A (412-1907) If you look closely at the edge of this miniature (at about 5 o’clock if this were a…
Artist: Susannah-Penelope Rosse · about 1680Portrait of a Woman, presumed Self-Portrait Medium watercolour on vellum Dimensions 80 x 64 mm Origin England Collection V&A (451-1892) This is widely presumed to be a self-portrait of Susannah-Penelope Rosse. It offers a rare…
Artist: Charlotte Martner · 1809Lieutenant-Colonel William Cleeve (1780-1831) Medium watercolour on ivory Dimensions 67 mm (diam.) Collection V&A (P.14-1978) Born in Paris, Charlotte Martner relocated to the Caribbean in 1803, where she was based in Martinique with her husband. Martner’s…
Artist: Diana Hill about 1791Lieutenant Thomas Harriott (1753-1817) Medium Watercolour on ivory Dimensions 48 x 33 mm Origin Kolkata, India Collection V&A (P.126-1920) More about the artist: Diana Hill →