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Lover's Eyes

Lover's Eyes

Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection

by Elle Shushan
Hardback
Publication Date: 14/09/2021

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Until the early 2000s, little had been written about eye miniatures or "Lover's Eyes", and their short-lived popularity at the end of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries, when hand-painted portraits of single human eyes were set in jewelry, or created to memorialize a deceased loved one.

This volume examines their role in the broader context of Georgian and early Victorian portrait miniatures; and looks in detail at the creation, and appeal, of these extraordinary objects. Dr and Mrs. David A. Skier's collection of eye miniatures is one of the most complete such collections of this genre of miniature painting anywhere in existence.

This volume features over 130 pieces from the Skier Collection, with 36 extraordinary newly acquired pieces, including two of the three known existing "Lover's Lips", and six examples of a delightful sub-category known as "Flower Eyes". There are illustrated essays on forgeries and fakes of lovers' eyes, on "Flower Eyes", on the persistence of the eye image which continues the tradition of lovers' eyes, and an essay on the eye miniatures created by Richard Cosway.

ISBN:
9781911282938
9781911282938
Category:
Antiques & collectables: pictures
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
14-09-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
D.\Giles#Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
280
Dimensions (mm):
181x181x32.51mm
Elle Shushan

Elle Shushan is a specialist dealer, author, lecturer and museum consultant. She is a member of the Antiques Dealers' Association of America, the British Antique Dealers' Association, CINOA, the Private Art Dealers Association and the Association of Historians of American Art.

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