Miniature: A small picture not normally larger than 6 in in anyone direction. The greatest schools of miniature-painting flourished in England during the 16th and 17th centuries. The leaders were such as Nicholas Hilliard, the Olivers and John Hoskins. Portraits were nearly always mounted in elaborately worked gold lockets. Miniatures can be painted in oil, water-colour, gouache and tempera and the smallest brushes No. 000 are known as triple goose, and are made from fine sable hairs. Although Hilliard painted small heads that would fit in rings, the smallest ever are by a Canadian, Gerard Legare of British Columbia, who manages to work on pin-heads with diameters from 0'8-6'3 mm.

 

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