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Miniature heroes: The tiny portraits that delight, amuse, and have changed the course of English history

Miniature heroes: The tiny portraits that delight, amuse, and have changed the course of English history
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Philip Mould & Company exhibits a group of exceptional Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits

Philip Mould & Company exhibits a group of exceptional Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits Workshop of Steven van der Meulen (fl. 1543–d. 1563), Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532–1588), c. 1562. Oil on panel, 45 x 34 in (114 x 86 cm). Photo: Philip Mould & Company. LONDON .- This spring, Philip Mould & Company shines a spotlight onto a group of exceptional Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits that have benefited from the very latest developments in a formerly dark age of British art history. In recent years, a new generation of art historians has benefited from improved access to unseen or overlooked documentary sources and transformative technological advances in the physical understanding of art, to produce fresh insights into the life and work of many of the artists of this era, shedding new light on their painting practices and the production of portraits in 16th and early 17th century Britain. This emerging period of art history is one that has a global fascination, wi

Signed Decourt Painting Discovered - TEFAF Maastricht 2021 Dates

Uniquely Signed Painting By Decourt Discovered In London A miniature painting – bought ‘unseen’ during lockdown in 2020 has been positively attributed to the 14th- century court painter  Decourt. The 57mm tall likeness was originally described as Sir Walter Raleigh, but experts at Philip Mould & Co soon discovered it was an image of Henri III, King of France (1551-1589), whose remaining contemporary images are extremely scarce. A second transformative discovery was made when a conservator opened the painting’s delicate frame and found the signature, ‘Decourt’ along with the date ‘1578’, on the reverse. Unusually, despite Decourt’s high profile and status at the time, no signed portrait had been unequivocally ascribed to this highly significant court artist. Until now.

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