International studio . rAINTKO IN OIL, OK KKANCOIS ClOfKT - 3 TJic Bucclcuch Miniatures face, Miniature art left behind it the character-istics that related it to jewellery, which Milliard,being a jeweller, enjoyed. With the miniature regarded simply as anobject that is exejuisite throughout, there is noperiod to compare with the Elizabethan. The artof the miniature of that time is has not a rival ; and the Olivers graduallylet slip the charm of the art that he bequeathedthem. When we begin to look at the character of aface, have we taken the first step away from
International studio . rAINTKO IN OIL, OK KKANCOIS ClOfKT - 3 TJic Bucclcuch Miniatures face, Miniature art left behind it the character-istics that related it to jewellery, which Milliard,being a jeweller, enjoyed. With the miniature regarded simply as anobject that is exejuisite throughout, there is noperiod to compare with the Elizabethan. The artof the miniature of that time is has not a rival ; and the Olivers graduallylet slip the charm of the art that he bequeathedthem. When we begin to look at the character of aface, have we taken the first step away from thepurely artistic judgment of the picture ? When theinterest of the face depicted excludes from presentconsciousness the grace of ])attern and colour, tothat extent have we ceased to respond to an ; It was said of Coopers miniatures that if a glasscould expand them to the size of Vandyckspaintings they would appear to have been painted. ANNE CLIFl OKI , COUNTESS OK DORSET (1590-1676)BY ISAAC OLIVER or does art also rest with rendering that interestof the face, is such interpretation of characterthe highest art of all? It must be concededthat it is generally considered to be so, andthat in this Holbein and Samuel Cooper asminiaturists represent the highest that Miniaturecan attain to. In this aspect the head of OliverCromwell by Samuel Cooper (p. 168) is, I suppose,the greatest thing that the Buccleuch collectioncontains. This miniature was copied by BernardLens, the copy being in the Welbeck is easy to see, even from a reproduction of thatcopy, that by the one stage removed from lifethere is a great loss of vitality. Lens must havehad Puritan leanings, for he leaves out the
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