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King Charles I’s French wife soon influenced fashion, as dresses became simpler and ornate jewellery was replaced by a simple string of pearls. But most in evidence here is the influence of the new court painter Anthony van Dyck, who arrived in England from Antwerp in 1632. There is a new naturalism, with landscape and sky replacing the stiff red curtains or blue backgrounds flattened by gold inscriptions of earlier miniatures. Hoskins also adopted more illusionistic techniques, virtually abandoning Hilliard's once innovative use of metal pigments to suggest jewellery or armour. Hilliard had trained as a goldsmith, Hoskins as an oil painter. Miniatures were now becoming less jewel-like, and with their greater sense of depth, light and air, more painterly.","physicalDescription":"Portrait, head and shoulders, turned slightly to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a necklace of pearls, earrings and a low-cut blue dress.  Features in delicate stipple of brown and sanguine, with blue and yellow washed into the shadows and blended with gouache, over a pale carnation ground; hair washed and hatched in browns over a pale brown wash with gouache lights; dress and landscape background washed and hatched in gouache; a marginal strip in gold; on vellum put down on pasteboard, now delaminated. \r\n \r\n<u>Frame:</u> Nineteenth-century copper-gilt locket, convex back and straight sides with a central torus moulding, the sides drawn up into a bezel which holds the convex glass; the hanger of <i>cosse de pois</i> type, with a projection at each shoulder and a small bead on top. Engraved on the back with the title in pseudo-seventeenth-century style; compare the variant of this type of case in Cat. 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