Miniatures, ancient and modern . ?z s, K c 2 g > 7;. >- at if ^ cm is *-; O - k. ?5 52« ? a- ISAAC OLIVER 75 already seen, Hilliard had even in this beenbefore Oliver, but it was only as an exceptionto his general style of small heads that theearlier master used the larger scale so success-fully appropriated by his distinguished pupil. These remarkable works, all admirable inevery way, would place Isaac Oliver in the firstrank of miniaturists of any nation. They aresplendidly drawn and splendidly coloured. ButIsaac Oliver did other work as well; there arenumbers of small bust miniatures
Miniatures, ancient and modern . ?z s, K c 2 g > 7;. >- at if ^ cm is *-; O - k. ?5 52« ? a- ISAAC OLIVER 75 already seen, Hilliard had even in this beenbefore Oliver, but it was only as an exceptionto his general style of small heads that theearlier master used the larger scale so success-fully appropriated by his distinguished pupil. These remarkable works, all admirable inevery way, would place Isaac Oliver in the firstrank of miniaturists of any nation. They aresplendidly drawn and splendidly coloured. ButIsaac Oliver did other work as well; there arenumbers of small bust miniatures by him,always excellent, in many of the great collec-tions. At Hertford House is a somewhat disappoint-ing portrait of Lord Coventry (No. 106) creditedto Isaac Oliver, and in the Jones Collection atthe Victoria and Albert Museum, besides thelarge Duke of Dorset already mentioned, aretwo others, one a portrait of Henry Prince ofWales on card (No. 633), and the other, alsoon card, of Sir Philip Sidney (No. 630). Bothof these are signed with an O trav
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