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Watercolour portrait of two sisters in a landscape painted by Adam Buck in 1816

Standing in a landscape with their arms around each other, these two young ladies, undoubtedly sisters, are dressed alike in white muslin empire-line dresses and black slippers,…

Portrait Miniatures

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Portraits

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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

Pencil portrait heightened with watercolour

Anxiously Waiting

Harding, 1824

£45

William Ireland

Woburn, 1830

£45

The Shoe Shine Boy

19th Century

£55

Antinous

19th Century

£40

The Spinner's Family

19th Century

£45

The Young Gardener

Mid 19th Century

£20

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Hinton Gibbs & Miss Gibbs

20th June 2020

Silhouette collectors will be familiar with the name Hinton Gibbs and his distinctive profiles reverse painted on glass and backed with wax. But apart from his service in the Bedfordshire Militia, little else has been known about his background and family. Similarly, Miss Gibbs who was recorded by Sue McKechnie as a cutter of silhouettes on the strength of two advertisements in the West Briton in June 1824. No examples of her work had been… (show more)

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