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This provided new versions of family portraits, or the chance to own a portrait of a well-known sitter.  Some enamellers however, including Weyler, painted their sitters from life, as he seems to have done in this miniature.  He has used great skill to translate his sitter's lively beauty into enamel.\r\n\r\nIn the 17th century, new techniques of painting enamels allowed delicate portraits resembling tiny oil paintings to be created. These enamel miniatures were first fashionable in continental Europe, but were particularly in vogue in Britain from the 1720s to 1760s. Painted enamels were made by firing finely milled glass which had been coloured with metal oxides onto a metal base, usually gold or copper. The colours had to be applied and fired in several stages, according to the firing temperature required by each colour. 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