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December 1, 2010
Stephen Lloyd and Kim Sloan The Intimate Portrait: Drawings, Miniatures, and Pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence Exh. cat. Edinburgh and London: National Galleries of Scotland and British Museum, 2009. 272 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper £25.00 (9781844543984)
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The 2008 exhibition that this catalogue accompanied was instigated by the British Museum’s acquisition of an important drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Mary Hamilton (1789). Cover-girl of the catalogue and an astonishing tour-de-force by the gifted nineteen-year-old artist, this work reminded authors Stephen Lloyd and Kim Sloan of just how ubiquitous miniatures and portrait drawings were in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—particularly at the Royal Academy—and how central they were to the contemporary debates on...