Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

Miniatures – tiny portraits, often no bigger than a palm and sometimes as small as the width of a thumb – were the descendants of the gold-leaf illuminations in medieval manuscripts.

7 1/2"H x 6 1/2"W 9 3/4"H x 9"W Sheet: 3 1/2"H x 2 1/2"W Frame: 7"H x 6"W ...

click image for close-up When Elizabeth Freeman was nearly 70 years old, Susan Ridley Sedgewick painted a miniature portrait of her in watercolor on ivory. Sedgewick was the young wife of Theodore ...

Young Amalia Kussner gazed out the second-floor window of her room and sketched the scenery of bustling, 1870s. A unique career in artistry was born. The next step in that trajectory came through a ...

The miniature is the only known colour depiction of George Quayle A set of miniature portraits, including the only known colour depiction of historical figure George Quayle has returned to the ...