{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O75215"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O75215/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AL3011/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AL3011/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006AL3011","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2006AF8820","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2006AV1332","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2006AL3012","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2017JU3076","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O75215/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O75215","accessionNumber":"P.11-1940","objectType":"Portrait Miniature","titles":[{"title":"Miniature Self-portrait of John Smart","type":"popular title"}],"summaryDescription":"When the miniature painter Ozias Humphry asked his fiancée to send a miniature of herself to him in India he asked specifically that she choose John Smart. Smart was about to arrive in India to set up as Humphry's rival, and it is likely that Humphry wanted to assess the competition. His reaction on receiving Smart's portrait somewhat critically sums up Smart's style, describing it as ‘extremely like’, her features rendered with ‘exactness’ but ‘certainly without any flattery’ and, he thought, ‘without air, or any grace in the disposition of it’.\r\n\r\nThis self portrait by Smart well illustrates those qualities that Humphry saw as defects but others clearly felt to be virtues. The modelling of the face is so precise, the concentration on the features so marked, that one can imagine Smart’s reputation for catching a likeness was deserved. Smart was a sober, quiet man, one who offered his clients direct honest facsimiles of their features. He has here painted himself in exactly that way.","physicalDescription":"Miniature self portrait on ivory depicting the artist in a green coat with his body in profile and face turned slightly towards the viewer.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Smart, John","id":"A2394"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"watercolour","id":"x33202"},{"text":"ivory","id":"AAT11857"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting","id":"x30598"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour on ivory","categories":[{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"},{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Miniatures","id":"THES269968"}],"styles":[{"text":"Georgian","id":"AAT21048"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AL3011","2006AF8820","2006AV1332","2006AL3012","2017JU3076"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"90A","id":"THES49164"},"free":"","case":"10","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"miniature (painting)","id":"AAT33936"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1797","earliest":"1797-01-01","latest":"1797-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased with funds from the H. B. Murray Bequest","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"87","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"70","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Portrait Miniature, Self-portrait Miniature of John Smart (1741-1811), watercolour on ivory in a metal frame, British, 1797.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>Summary Catalogue of Miniatures in the Victoria and Albert Museum</i>, Emmett Microform, 1981"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Katherine Coombs, <u>The Portrait Miniature in England</u>, V&A Publications, 1998, pp.87-92."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Katherine Coombs, <i>Finney, Samuel (1719-1798)</i>', <u>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</u>, Oxford University Press, 2004."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Damiët Schneeweisz, Rosalind McKever, and Adriana Concin. <i>The Portrait Miniature: A New History</i>. London: Thames & Hudson  and the V&A, 2026."},{"reference":{"text":"Damiët Schneeweisz, Rosalind McKever, and Adriana Concin. <i>The Portrait Miniature: A New History</i>. London: Thames & Hudson and the V&A, 2026.","id":"AUTH411474"},"details":"","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Smart, John","id":"N1829"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"self-portrait","id":"AAT124534"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["P.11-1940"],"accessionNumberNum":"11","accessionNumberPrefix":"P","accessionYear":1940,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2026PM5636","2026PM2853","2025PJ7603","2019LP9436","2019LT3644","2019LW6068"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-02-10","recordCreationDate":"2003-02-25","availableToBook":false}}