Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology Department of Western Art Handbook: Miniatures

The Author: Richard Walker is the author of National Portrait Gallery: Regency Portraits, Miniatures in the Collection Of Her Majesty the Queen, and to be published shortly, a Catalogue of Miniatures in National Trust Houses.

The Ashmolean collection of miniatures was begun in the seventeenth century by the Tradescants, father and son, gardeners to Charles I and Henrietta Maria. Among its most generous benefactors was the Reverend Bentinck Hawkins, chaplain to the Dukes of Cambridge and an insatiable nineteenth-century collector. The miniatures, mostly of very high quality, range from the Tudor and Stuart era to Victorian times, and include specially distinguished works by Isaac Oliver, Cooper, Zincke, Smart, Cosway and Engleheart.

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