Small, made large - a selection of portrait miniatures

Portrait of a lady, by Louis-Marie Sicard, called Sicardi, circa 1787.

Portrait of a lady, Nathaniel Rogers, circa 1820s.

Edward Raphael, by John Smart, 1789.

Portrait of a young boy, Continental School, circa 1610.

 Portrait of a young gentleman, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, circa 1750.

Portrait of a nun, by Richard Cosway, circa 1790.

Portrait of a lady, unknown artist, circa 1800.

 Portrait of an army officer, by George Engleheart, circa 1800.

Margaret Walpole, née Clive, by Richard Cosway, circa 1790.

Portrait of a young gentleman, by Nicholas Hilliard, circa 1600.

Unknown artist, probably circa first part of the nineteenth century.

Robert Arthur de Acres, marquis de l'Aigle, by François Meuret, 1858.

Portrait of a lady, by Louis-Marie Sicard, called Sicardi, 1789.

Portrait of a young lady, attributed to Levina Teerlinc, 1549.

Carl-Erik Wadenstierna, by Nicolas Lavreince (Niklas Lafrensen), circa 1760s.

Elizabeth Stirling Foote, by Thomas Seir Cummings, 1832.

 Sir George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (?), by Richard Cosway, circa 1766.

Self-portrait, by Anne Mee, circa 1795.

John Dent, "Solicitor and County Coroner", unknown artist, circa 1810-20.

Francis Bacon, later 1st Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, by Nicholas Hilliard, 1578.

Portrait of a young lady, unknown artist, circa 1840s.

Colonel the Hon. James Hamilton of the Coldstream Guards, by John Smart, 1784.

Edward Livingston, by Anson Dickinson, circa 1827.

Unknown artist, circa 1780s.

Margaret Roper, by Hans Holbein the Younger, circa 1535-36.

A gentleman in the uniform of a volunteer regiment, by John Smart, 1799.

Unknown child, by Anson Dickinson, circa 1810-30.

Richard Whitmore, aged 3, by Bernard Lens III, 1718.

 Portrait of a lady, by Richard Cosway, 1798.

Muhammad Ali Khan, Nawab of Arcot, by John Smart, 1787.

Royal Ralph Hinman, by Anson Dickinson, circa 1810-20.

Portrait of a lady, by Adam Buck, 1803.

John Dyer Collier, by George Engleheart, circa 1780s-90s.

Portrait of a lady, attributed to Georges Nicolas Toussaint Augustin, called Augustin Dubourg, circa 1790.

Self-portrait, by Louis François Aubry (copy after), circa 1805 (original 1795).

Miss Burnaby Green, by Andrew Robertson, 1829.

Count Axel von Fersen, attributed to Nicolas Lavreince (Niklas Lafrensen), circa 1784.

Count Fersen was the "special friend" of Queen Marie Antoinette.

James Bogert, Jr., by Henry Inman, circa 1835.

Portrait of a lady painting a portrait miniature, by Jean-Baptiste Soyer, circa 1795.

Unknown woman in masque costume, by Isaac Oliver, 1609.

Count Felix von Woyna, by Friedrich Ludwig Vieth von Golssenau, circa 1815.

Portrait of a lady, called Mrs. Ackland, by Sir William Charles Ross, circa 1840s.

 Portrait of a boy, attributed to Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, circa 1780.

Portrait of a lady, by George Engleheart, circa 1780s.

Louis de Kergorlay, by François Dumont, 1789.

A king of the House of Orange - portraits of Willem II of the Netherlands

Unknown artist, 1815.

Jan Baptist van der Hulst, 1848.

Nicolaas Pieneman, 1849.

Jan Baptist van der Hulst, 1833.

 Nicaise de Keyser, 1846.

Louis-Henri de Fontenay (?), 1840.

After John Singleton Copley, circa 1813-15.

Unknown artist, circa 1840s.

William Salter, 1840. (This very curious painting - crude to begin with, like all of Salter's work - looks also to be quite damaged, possibly by fire.)

François Joseph Kinson, 1830.

Jan Adam Kruseman, 1842.

Jan Adam Kruseman, 1840.

Willem II at his desk in the Kneuterdijk Palace, by Augustus Wijantz, 1847.

Nicolaas Pieneman, circa 1840s.

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I've written about Willem II before - his life, his wife, and other things - here.

Swedes on board - Great Garbo and Nils Asther in "The Single Standard", 1929

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Garbo arrived in Hollywood in 1925; Asther two years later. Sometimes referred to as "the male Greta Garbo" because of his nationality and his epicene beauty, Asther made two films with Garbo in 1929, "Wild Orchids" and "the Single Standard". Having know each other previously in Sweden - both had been mentored by director Mauritz Stiller - the gay Asther and bisexual Garbo became good friends for a time, even vacationing together. In his posthumously published - and quite unreliable - memoirs, Asther claimed to have proposed marriage to Garbo on three separate occasions. With no doubts regarding his sexuality - or her own? - she understandably refused.