Usage of "miniature portrait"

Russian

портретная миниатюра

Portuguese

pintura em miniatura

Spanish

retrato miniatura

Catalan

retrat miniatura

Very small painting.

Related terms

genre of painting

портретная миниатюра

Usage of miniature portrait in English

He'd seen the locket she carried containing a miniature portrait of her son. 
 The hunchback assignments 

I enclose the will and a miniature portrait of the aristocrat, de Lescure. 
 La Vendée 

On the opposite wall hung the miniature portrait of her father. 
 The Woman in White 

She pointed to a miniature portrait, hanging above the mantelpiece. 
 The Two Destinies 

It contained a miniature portrait of a man-Frenchwork, by an excellent pupil of Meissonier. 
 The Case of Richard Meynell 

She removed the miniature portrait of Lord Darnley that Sabine had painted just a fortnight ago. 
 Heaven and the heather 

At the top, a miniature portrait of me, when a child, was let into the leaf. 
 Basil 

His fingers touched a miniature portrait of a girl with long chestnut hair and green eyes. 
 Colors Aloft! 

She eased it off with her fingernail and opened the locket to reveal a miniature portrait inside. 
 The river kings' road 

A miniature portrait of the Bēgam is given on the frontispiece to volume ii of the original edition. 
 Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official 

Another miniature portrait, a precise copy of the one in hand, hung from the neck of the skeleton. 
 Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 

While in Spain he executed a miniature portrait of the Infanta, which was sent over to King James. 
 Art in England: Notes and Studies 

But there was something else besides the letter; there was inclosed in it a miniature portrait of Miss Blanchard. 
 Armadale 

And yet it was but a miniature portrait- amiraculouslyaccurate one, to be sure-ofhis own very remarkable features. 
 Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe 

She was lying dead, and on her breast they found a miniature portrait of a handsome and dark-looking young man. 
 The Romance of the Coast 

My glances, which roved with swiftness from one object to another, shortly lighted on a miniature portrait that hung near. 
 Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 