INDEX
Reading edition
A
Amber, Millicent, wife of William Cobden, 256, 257
Amsterdam, Liotards at, 218
Anglo-Celtic, see Hibernian
Arlaud, 28
Ashmolean Museum, miniatures at, 83
Aubrey, L. F., 355
Audley, Lady, by Holbein, 286
Augustin, J. B. J., quality of his work, 350, 351;
examples of, in Wallace Collection, 310, 351;
his career, 351
Augustin, J. B. J., Madame, 351
B
Barbor jewel, the, 315
Battersea enamels, 89
Belvoir, miniatures at, 298
Bessborough family, owners of Liotards, 218
Betts, J. & T., 28, 105, 106, 109
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Janets at, 288
Biffin, Miss, 35
Boit, Charles, 83
Bonaparte, Napoleon I., 308
Bonaparte, Caroline, 308
Bonaparte, Jerome, 308
Bonaparte, Louis, 308
Bonaparte, Pauline, 308
Bone, Henry, 30, 90
Bone, Henry Pierce, 30, 93
Bone, W., 30, 93
Bone, C. R., 30, 93
Bone, P. J., 31
Bordier, Jacques, 75, 198, 201
Bordier, Pierre, 76, 201
Boucher, François, 308, 337
Boucher, Madame, 338
Bourgeois, C. G. A., 352
Brandon, Alicia, wife of N. Hilliard, 297
Brandon, Charles and Henry, sons of the Duke of Suffolk, by Holbein, 282
British Museum, enamels at, 73
Buccleuch Collection of Miniatures, the, 22, 118, 122, 140, 143, 149, 160, 293-95, 300
Burdett-Coutts Collection, 298, 299
Byzantine work, 66, 69
C
Camargo, La, portrait of, 309
Canterbury Gospels, 53
Carlisle, Earl of, his collection, 206
Carlovingian school, 53
Carriera, Rosalba, 334;
her character, 334;
her pastels, 337
Carter, W., 35
Catherine of Braganza, by Cooper, at Victoria and Albert Museum, 316
Chalon, A. E., R.A., 31, 271
Chalon, J. J., R.A., 31
Chalon, Miss M. A., 31
Chalon, H. B., 31
Chantilly, works by Janet at, 110, 288;
reference to, 332
Charles I., his collection of miniatures, 22;
his miniature by Petitot, 206
Charles II., by Cooper, 183, 291, 309;
by Flatman, in the Wallace Collection, 309;
his miniature by Petitot, 206
Charlemagne, 53
Charlier, patronised by Louis XV., 338;
examples of, at Hertford House, 306, 339
Charlotte, Queen, by O. Humphrey, 252, 292
Chatillon, C., 359
Chavant, Mlle., imitator of Petitot, 202
Chinnery, George, 247
Claypole, Elizabeth, 294, 297
Clive, Lord and Lady, portraits of, 247
Clouet, works by, 333
Cobden family, miniatures of, 256
Cobden, William, 256
Cobden, Richard, 256
Cobden, Richard Brooks, 259
Cobden Unwin, Mrs., miniatures belonging to, 256-59
Collins, Richard, 31
Collins, Samuel, 31, 221, 251
Constantin, Moïse, imitator of Petitot, 202
Cooper, Samuel, 31, 57;
Evelyn's reference to, 50;
his birth and career, 175;
Pepys's admiration for him, 176;
money value attaching to his miniatures, 179;
his portraits of the Protector's family, 179, 180;
merits of his work criticised, 183;
examples in the Royal Collection, 186;
at Montague House, 294;
at Welbeck, 297;
at Kensington, 314;
at Victoria and Albert Museum, 315, 319
Cooper, Alexander, 31;
rarity of his work, 186;
his death, 186;
his inferiority to S. Cooper, 187
Corneille de Lyon, 333
Cosway, Richard, 31;
his reputation, 232;
his eccentricities, 232;
his career, 235;
his training and dexterity, 235;
the number of his works, 236;
and of forgeries of the same, 236;
a great collector, 238;
his marriage, 238;
his character, 242;
his technique, 245;
his portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire, 292;
his works at Victoria and Albert Museum, 314
Cosway, Maria, reference to, 31;
her parentage and marriage, 238;
her ability as a painter, 238, 241;
separates from her husband, 241;
retires to Italy and dies, 242
Courtois, Jehan, 70
Cromwell, Oliver, by S. Cooper, at Montague House, 294
Crosse, Lawrence, 31;
his style of painting, 218;
examples at Welbeck, 298
Crosse, Richard, 31
Cuper, Madeleine and Margaret, 79
D
Dartrey, Lord, collection of, 80, 201
Dauphin, Janet's portrait of, 287
Davis, Mary, by S. Cooper, 297
Day, Alexander, 31
Day, Thomas, 31
Dayes, Edward, 31
de Court, Suzanne, 70
de Heere, Lucas, 101
de la Chana, Alexandre, imitator of Petitot, 202
Derby, Alfred, 31
Derby, William, 31, 221
Devonshire, Duchess of, portrait of, 238
Dickinson Gallery, exhibitions of miniatures at, 264, 299
Digbys, the, portraits of, 150, 153, 154, 299
Dimier, M., on the Clouets, 331;
on Corneille de Lyon, 333
Dixon, John, 31;
engraver, 31;
examples of, in the Buccleuch Collection, 297
Dixon, N., 31, 32
Downman, John, A.R.A., 268
Drake, Admiral, by S. Cooper, 297
Dubourg, Augustin, 352
Dudman, W., miniature painter, 256
Dufey, copyist of Petitot, 202
Dumont, F., his career, 346;
character of his work, 349
Dumont, Laurent N. A., 349
Du Thé, Mlle., portrait of, 309
Dyce Collection at Victoria and Albert Museum, 315
E
Edridge, Henry, A.R.A., 268;
his copies of Reynolds and drawings, ibid.
Edward VI., by Hilliard, 286
Enamels, early use of, 65;
cloisonné, 66;
champlevé, 69;
Limoges, 70
Engleheart, George, 32;
his origin, 255;
characteristics of his style, 255;
number of his works, 255;
their rarity in our public collections, 256
Engleheart, J. C. D., 37
Essex, William, 32, 93, 315
Essex, William B., 32
Ethelwald, Benedictional of, 56
F
Felu, C. F., 35
Ferrier, F., 32
Ferrier, L., 32
Ferrand, J. P., imitator of Petitot, 202
Fitzherbert, Mrs., by R. Cosway, 309
Flatman, T., example of, in Dyce Collection, 316
Foldsome, Miss, see Mee
Forster, Thomas, portraits of Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, 314
Fragonard, J. H., examples of, 310, 339
Fragonard, Madame, works by, 310
French School, as shown at Hertford House, 307;
its excellence, 327
G
Gardiner Collection, 79
Geddes, portrait of A. Plimer by, 246
George III., patronises Humphrey, 252;
patronises Engleheart, 255
George IV., miniature of, 245
Gibson, Richard, 32
Gibson, Penelope, 32
Gibson, William, 32
Goupey, Louis, 32
Goupey, Joseph, 32
Goupey, Bernard, 32
Green, Mrs. Mary, 32
Green, Robert, 32
Gribelin, Isaac, 74
Grimaldi, W., copy by, 309
Guérin, J., 355;
his career, 355;
his portrait of Kléber, 355
Gunning, Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton, 222
Gunning, Maria, Countess of Coventry, 222
H
Hall, P. A., 80;
his portrait of Marie Antoinette, 205;
works by, 307;
at Hertford House, 310;
facility of his execution, 339;
characteristics of his work, 339;
his career, 340;
high price fetched by his work, 340
Hamilton, Lady Elizabeth, 222
Hargreaves, Thomas, 267
Haughton (or Houghton), Moses, 32
Hayter, Charles, 32, 271
Hayter, Sir George, 32
Hazlitt, William, 242
Heins, D., 32
Heins, John, 32
Henderson, R., 57
Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, by Petitot, 299
Henry VII., by Hilliard, 286
Henry VIII., by Holbein, 285;
by Hilliard, 286
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, miniature of, 36;
by I. Oliver, 288
Henry, Duke of Gloucester, by S. Cooper, 314
Hertford House Collection, see Wallace
Hibernian School of Manuscript, 53
Hiles, Bartram, 35
Hilliard, Nicholas, 32;
his manner of painting, 39;
birth and parentage, 127;
employed by Elizabeth, ibid.;
his death, 131;
examples of his work, ibid., 136-44, 286, 288, 297, 314;
his method of painting and merits, 132-36
Hilliard, Lawrence, 32, 128, 131
Holbein, Hans, the Younger, the founder of miniature painting in England, visits Sir Thomas More, 113;
portraits by him, 114;
taken into the service of Henry VIII., ibid.;
collection of drawings and miniatures by, at Windsor, ibid., 118, 282;
at Hertford House, 309;
other works by, 121, 122
Holmes, Sir Richard, on the Royal Collection, 281, 282, 287
Hone, Nathaniel, R.A., 32, 84, 87
Hone, Horace, A.R.A., 32, 87
Hopkins, Thomas, 33
Hopkins, William, 33
Horneband Family, 102
Hoskins, John, 32;
his career, his pupils, 166;
examples of work, 167;
his merits as a miniature painter, 167, 168;
his death, 169
Houin, C. J. B., 345
Howard, Katherine, 282
Hudson, Thomas, Master of Cosway, 235
Hughes, Madame, by S. Cooper, 297
Humphrey, Ozias, R.A., his qualities as a miniature painter, 248;
compared with Plimer and Smart, 251;
his origin and career, a pupil of Collins, 251;
goes to Italy, 252;
and India, 251;
his prices, 251;
examples of his powers as a copyist at Knole, 255;
beauty of his work, 292;
his portrait of Queen Charlotte, 292
Hurter, the Brothers, 80
I
Isabey, J. B., his portrait of Napoleon I., 308;
painter to successive monarchs, 356;
examples at Hertford House, 310, 356;
diverse nature of his work, 357, 358
J
James II., by Cooper, 291;
by Petitot, 206, 299, 300
Janet, François, his family, 109, 331;
his work at Windsor, 287;
by members of his family, 333
Jansen, S. J., 89
Jennings, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, by B. Lens, 319
Jones Collection, 76-80, 148, 156, 193;
index of portraits in, 320-24
Joséphine, Empress, portraits of, 307
K
Kells, book of, 53
Kensington, Loan Collection at in 1865, 131, 143, 144
L
Lambert, imitator of Petitot, 202
Laudin, 70
Lavreince, Nicholas, 343;
his career and nature of his work, 344
Leczinska, Marie, portrait of, 308
Legarré, Jules, 207
Lens, Bernard, 32;
examples of, at Welbeck, 248
Lens, Andrew B., 32
Lens, Peter P., 32
Lens family, 218
Limousin, Lenard, 70
Limousin, Jean, 70
Limousin, Joseph, 70
Limousin, François, 70
Linnell, John, 268
Liotard, J. E., his work criticised, examples at Amsterdam and Paris, 218
Loggan, David, portrait of Sir G. Verney, 314
Louis XV., portrait of, 308
Louis XVI., portrait of, 308
Louis XVII., portrait of, 308
Louis XVIII., portrait of, 308
Louvre, enamels at, 73, 206;
snuff-boxes, 80, 205;
Le Noir Collection, 205;
Liotards at, 218
M
Mansion, J., works by, 310;
at Hertford House, 313, 350
Marie Louise, portraits of, 307
Mary, Queen of Scots, portraits of, 109, 110, 143, 287
Massé, J. B., 337
Mayerne, Sir T. de, 75, 194
Medici, Catherine de, 332
Mee, Mrs., 268
Meyer, Jeremiah, R.A., 87, 88, 315
Milton, John, by S. Cooper, 297
Miniatures, on the collecting of, 22;
forgeries of, 27, 237;
on the care and preservation of, 36-42;
painted on several pieces of ivory, 41;
origin of the art, 45-57;
and of the term, 49;
method of painting, 58-62
Miniature painters, early, 97
Miniature painting, its long history, 363;
importance of perpetuating it, 364,
Monck, George, by Cooper, 183, 291
Monmouth, Duke of, by Cooper, 183, 291;
by Dixon, 297
More, Sir A., 105
Moser, G. M., R.A., 33, 87
Moser, Joseph, 33
Moser, Mary, 33, 88
Mosnier, J. L., 344
Muss, Charles, 84
N
Napoleonic period illustrated at Hertford House, 307
Netscher, Gaspar, 218
Newton, Richard, 33
Newton, Sir William J., 32, 41, 271;
the number of his works, ibid.;
example at Victoria and Albert Museum, 315
Nixon, James, 221
O
O'Keefe, Daniel, 33
O'Keefe, John, 33
Oliver, Isaac, 33;
the Oliver family, 147;
examples of Isaac Oliver's work, 149-160
Oliver, Peter, 33;
his parentage and family, 161;
his copies ofold masters, 165;
his death, 161;
example at Victoria and Albert Museum, 314
Olivers, the, in Burdett-Coutts Collection, 298, 299
P
Pala d'oro, 69
Périn, Louis L., 349
Perrot, copyist of Petitot, 202
Petitot, Jean, 24, 74, 75, 79;
his origin, 194;
his arrival in England, ibid;
introduction to Charles I., and friendship with Van Dyck, 197;
takes refuge in Paris, ibid.;
his numerous portraits of Louis XIV., 198;
quits France and settles at Geneva, ibid.;
his death at Vevey, ibid.;
his copyists, 202;
fine examples of his work, 206, 299;
number of, in Jones Collection, 316
Petitot Fils, 201;
inferiority of his work to that of the elder Petitot, ibid.
Plimer, Andrew, 33, 245;
parentage, 33, 245;
death, 246;
his portrait in the Scottish National Gallery, 246;
his group of the Rushout girls, 246;
examples of, at Victoria and Albert Museum, 314
Plimer, Nathaniel, 33, 245;
exhibits at Royal Academy, 245
Plott, John, 87
Plumley Collection at Victoria and Albert Museum, 315
Pompadour, portrait of, 308
Pope, Alexander, miniature painter and poet, 33
Portland, Duke of, his collection, 297;
Coopers in, 298
Portsmouth, Duchess of, by Cooper, 297
Powis, earl of, collection of, 247
Prewitt, W., 84
Primitifs Français, Exhibition of, 332, 334
Propert, Dr., on forgeries, 236, 237
Prudhon, P. P., 350
Q
Quaglia, F., 358
R
Radnor, Earl of, collection of, 241
Raeburn, Sir Henry, 268
Raleigh, Sir Walter, and his son at Belvoir, 298
Ramolino, Madame, portrait of, 307
Reymond, Pierre, 70
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, P.R.A., referred to, 235, 251, 255
Robertson, Andrew, his origin, 33, 263;
his varied talents, 263;
comes to London and makes B. West his patron, 264;
characteristics of his work, 264;
his death and character, 264
Robertson, Archibald, 33
Robertson, Alexander, 33
Robertson, Mrs. A., 33
Robertson, Walter, 34
Robertson, Charles, 34
Rome, King of, portrait of, 308
Romney, George, goes to Italy with Humphrey, 252
Ross, H., 34, 276
Ross, Mrs., 34
Ross, H., Junr., 34
Ross, Miss Maria, 34
Ross, Miss Magdalene, 34
Ross, Sir William Charles, R.A., 34;
his birth and parentage, 275;
his precocity, 275;
is patronised by Royalty, 275;
the great number of his works, 275;
characteristics of his style, 276;
many examples in the Royal Collection, ibid., 292;
examples of, at Victoria and Albert Museum, 315
Rouvier, M., 346
Rouvigny, Rachel de, her portrait, 197
Rupert, Prince, by Dixon, 297
Rushout, the Misses, Plimer's miniature of, 246, 247
Rutland, Duke of, his collection, 298
S
Sadler, Thomas, 34
Sadler, William, 34
Saint, D., 359
Saunders, George L., 34
Saunders, Joseph, 34
Saunders, R., 34
Schreiber Collection, 89
Seymour, Jane, by Hilliard, 286
Sheepshanks Gallery, see Victoria and Albert
Shelley, Samuel, 221
Sheridan, Mrs., 251
Sherlock, William, 34
Shipley's Drawing School, 235, 247
Sicardi, or Sicard, L., 345;
charm of his colouring, 345;
example at Hertford House, 345
Sidney, Sir Philip, by I. Oliver, 288
Singleton, Joseph, 34
Singleton, William, 34
Smart, Anthony, 35
Smart, John, 34;
his birth and career, 247;
goes to India, 247;
qualities of his art, 248
Smart, John, junr., 34, 247
Smart, Samuel Paul, 34
Smith Thomas Correggio, 34
Smith, John Raphael, 34
Snuff-boxes, 79;
their use in the eighteenth century, 205
Soutter, J. G., imitator of Petitot, 202
T
Teerling, Levyn, 102
Thorburn, Robert, A.R.A., his method of painting large works on ivory, 41;
his rapid rise, 271;
his method of making cabinet pictures, 275
Toutin, Jean, 74, 193
Toutin, Henri, 75
U
Unwin, Mrs., see Cobden
Upsala, MSS. preserved at, 57
V
Van Cleef, J., 105
Van der Doort's catalogue, 285, 286, 288
Van Dyck, Sir A., his friendship with Petitot, 197
Victoria and Albert Museum, enamels at, 73, 74, 76, 93;
snuff-boxes at, 205;
miniatures at, 313
W
Waddesdon Collection, 73, 74
Wallace Collection, miniatures in, 304-313;
snuff-boxes, 79
Walpole, Horace, his criticisms, 183, 299
Welbeck Collection, 297
West, Benjamin, P.R.A., a patron of Robertson, 264;
his influence at Court, 264
Windsor, collection at, its extent, 282, 291;
Olivers at, 149, 150, 165, 288
Wood, William, 267
Wright, Mrs., see Biffin
Z
Zincke, C. F., 83, 300
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