Period Portraits X The Limner Company
This May, join celebrated portraits dealer Nick Cox and portrait miniature specialist Emma Rutherford for a week of miniature moments!
London Art Week
The Limner Company are delighted to be joining London Art Week, the UK's pre-eminent fine arts selling event. LAW also host talks and events throughout the year, so watch this space!
Compton Verney -EXHIBITION
The Limner Company is excited to be working with Compton Verney on an exhibition of portrait miniatures starting September 2024!
*NEWS FLASH: Hilliard Discovery*
In the April issue of The Burlington Magazine, an important miniature by Nicholas Hilliard is published for the first time in an article by Elizabeth Goldring and Emma Rutherford, having just emerged from a private collection. It adds significantly to our understanding of his practice and patronage and constitutes Hilliard’s only known completed cabinet miniature of a female subject. What’s more, the sitter can be identified as Lady Arbella (or Arabella) Stuart (1575–1615), and the commission connected with a fascinating episode of spycraft in late Elizabethan England.
Elizabeth and Emma have been researching this portrait for over a year, and it’s with enormous excitement that it is finally published.
The article is available online here.
Celebrating Miss Biffin: A conversation with Alison Lapper
In conversation with art historians Emma Rutherford and Ellie Smith, the artist Alison Lapper will share her experience as a disabled woman artist 150 years after miniaturist Sarah Biffin (1784-1850).
AUTUMN SELLING EXHIBITION
We will be holding a portrait miniatures selling exhibition at Daniel Crouch Rare Books, London. The exhibition will present a small selection of antique portrait miniatures.
Understanding British Portraits Annual Seminar
Our director, Emma Rutherford, will be speaking at the Understanding British Portraits Annual Seminar.
Miniatures at Kenwood House
For this fundraising event, Kenwood House curator Louise Cooling and conservator (and The Limner Company consultant) Alan Derbyshire will be giving a join talk on portrait miniatures.
Sarah Biffin - EXHIBITION
The Holburne Museum, Bath are to hold the first major museum exhibition to examine the life and work of Sarah Biffin. Biffin’s remarkable story had been largely overlooked by historians until the exhibition last year at Philip Mould Gallery, curated by Emma Rutherford and and Ellie Smith.
SUMMER SELLING EXHIBITION
We will be holding our first portrait miniatures selling exhibition at Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, London. The exhibition will run 30 June - 7 July 2023 and will present a small selection of fine European portrait miniatures from the 16th - 19th centuries.
Talk at Compton Verney
Join Emma to discover the the symbolism and significance of miniatures, both personal and political. The talk will be followed by a miniatures handling session with Compton Verney's Collections Manager.