Excerpt from Miniatures: Ancient and Modern
Miniature painting in England Of the Stuart period, on vellum, card, or metal - Broad oval portraits painted in Opaque colours with bold shadows, and mostly Of men - Sir Anthony Vandyck, Sir Balthasar Gerbier.
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