International studio . HOWARD, VI-ATTRIBI TEH roi sr HINDKN (./. lOlo/l I)TO lETKR mind of the man who sits before him, as heportrays him. It is because the fashionablemodern exponents of Miniature assume such anegative attitude towards their sitters that theirminiatures are so dull. They are reflectionswhich nine times out of ten are poorer than thereflection in a lens. To feel one man summing up another, that isthe soul of the enjoyment of portraiture. It isthe impressiveness of the judgments passed, asexpressed in one small drawing after another, thatgives to the art of Samuel Coope
International studio . HOWARD, VI-ATTRIBI TEH roi sr HINDKN (./. lOlo/l I)TO lETKR mind of the man who sits before him, as heportrays him. It is because the fashionablemodern exponents of Miniature assume such anegative attitude towards their sitters that theirminiatures are so dull. They are reflectionswhich nine times out of ten are poorer than thereflection in a lens. To feel one man summing up another, that isthe soul of the enjoyment of portraiture. It isthe impressiveness of the judgments passed, asexpressed in one small drawing after another, thatgives to the art of Samuel Cooper an importancethat makes the scale on which he works anirrelevant t|uestion altogether. only rellect, it can make no advances. The wordnegative gives us its soul, but the attitude of theartist—the great one—is positive towards his sitter,advancing, so to spwik, into the lust recess of the. MONCK () BY NICHOLAS IlIXON(See minuiluie by S. Cooftr on next pa^e) Cooper was the pupil of Hoskins, but contraryto all precedents, and succeeding custom, thepupil it was who was considered so able as to becharged to put in the heads while the masterattached body and accessories. Apparently Cooperacquired the habit of contenting himself withfinishing the face in his miniatures, leaving therest merely suggested, perhaps with a view, some-times, to completion by another hand. It wasCoopers practice to work a great deal by candle-light, as it enabled him to command more com-pletely the shadows which reveal character. Then with my wife to Coopers, writes Pepys, and there saw her sit : and he do do extraordinary-things indeed. t!ooper had rivals in Ihonias l-latm.»n andNicholas Dixon. Klatman was a jKiet and essayistas well as a [winter of miniatures, anil a fortune- The BiiccJciicli Miniatures hunter too, it is said—in the description of hismarriage. Dixon succeeded to Coope
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