International studio . 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 collection.

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International studio . 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 QUEEN MARY I. (1516-I558)PAINTED IN OIL BY ANTONIO MORE for that proportion. Now this is in one sensetrue of all art on a small scale that reveals aperfect craftsman. The writer has seen the smallest

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