Portrait miniatures, silhouettes and gallimaufry

Small Portraits of Character

Wigs on the Green specialises in fine portrait miniatures, silhouettes, small portraits, and provincial art, predominantly from the 18th and 19th centuries. Our portraits are selected for their historical interest and character. They are not only by listed artists but also those who painted and drew for their own entertainment and pleasure - true to life portraits, with real character and, often, a pretty face!

New Arrivals

Painted and gilded silhouette of a lady in a plum dress

The Maroon Dress

The Hubard Gallery

£265

Interior Watercolour

Early 19th Century

£90

Miniature portrait of a young Regency lady

Lavinia

The Vicar's Wife

£575

Mary Chepmell

A Guernsey Lass

£1,400

James Hill

Aged 7¾

£300

Cut and gilded silhouette conversation piece of three siblings

Family in Profile

Circa 1835

£525

Latest Musing

William Hamlet the Elder

20th October 2020

The chance discovery of an article published in the first Afro-American newspaper Freedom’s Journal (28 March 1829) has prompted new research into William Hamlet’s background and family. The article concerned the arrest in Norfolk, Virginia of William Hamlet’s third son, George. George was living in New York but, whilst travelling, he was ‘arrested and cast into a loathsome prison’ as he did not have the necessary documents to prove that he was a free man.… (show more)

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