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On view at Compton Verney:

Portrait Miniatures: Highlights from the Grantchester Collection
Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, Warwickshire, 10 September 2022 — 31 December 2023

Henriette Rath, Portrait of Madame Argand, 1799, watercolour on ivory, 1799 (Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, photograph by Jamie Woodle). Together with her sister, Jeanne-Françoise, Henriette founded the Musée Rath in Geneva, the first purpose-built art museum in Switzerland, constructed between 1824 and 1826.

We are excited to present highlights from the Grantchester Miniatures Collection in Compton Verney’s British Portraits gallery. The Grantchester Collection of portrait miniatures was gifted to Compton Verney in 2019. It is a highly personal collection developed by the late Lady Grantchester [Betty Suenson-Taylor], the sister of our founder Sir Peter Moores, who established the Compton Verney House Trust in 1993. Showcasing over 40 exquisite miniatures from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, this will be the first time that many of these works have been shown in public. The collection includes portraits in miniature by Isaac Oliver, Richard Cosway, George Engleheart and John Smart.

A guide to the exhibition is available here»