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As an artist, Rebecca Latham as well as her mother, Karen,and sister, Bonnie, strive for detail in their painting.  Studying with a Flemish master, they havedeveloped their styles for painting extreme realism.  Their works, both large and small, arepainted “in miniature”. Early BeginningsMiniature painting is a traditional style of art that isvery detailed, often referred to as painting or working “in miniature”.  Because of their origins as illuminations,they are also painted to have as smooth of a surface as possible.  (It is also suggested that miniature art mayhave been influenced by the medals of ancient Romeas well)  Miniature art can be tracedback to ancient Egyptian manuscripts on papyrus scrolls.  Monks are also often highlighted for theircontributions to early miniature painting with their beautifully illuminatedmanuscripts such as the Celtic Book of Kells and England's Lindisfarne Gospels(both of which measure around 9" x 12").  Some early manuscripts contain miniaturepaintings on their pages that depict beautiful arrangements of life sizedflower arrangements on their borders.  Thehistory of miniature painting is also seen throughout the world in various othercultures.Miniature painting began out of necessity for illustratingdocuments and manuscripts to aid those reading them during a time when manywere not able to, before printing was invented. The miniature helped to convey the story and meaning of the writtenword.  Therefore, the art of miniaturepainting is directly connected to the book arts.  The various sized illuminations (pictures)were cut out of these books or documents so that they could be carried moreeasily.  Later, developing from the carriedminiature, portrait miniature artists were commissioned to paint smallportraits – paintings that were used as we use wallet sized photographs today.These sizes of miniature paintings became popular with collectors and are oftenreferred to as “hand held miniatures”.  Portrait miniatures were painted in larger sizes as well, for example masterminiaturist, Nicholas Hilliard, Peter Oliver, and Sir Charles William Ross allpainted works that were of a larger size. SizesMiniature painting is sometimes confused and assumed thatthe pieces must be small or depict subjects on a smaller scale to be consideredminiature art, though this is not the case. It is helpful to keep in mind that the origins of the term "miniature"have nothing to do with a size.  The wordminiature comes from the terms 'minium' (used for the red lead paint used inilluminated manuscripts) and 'miniare' (Latin for 'to color with red lead').Miniature painting is a style and technique of painting, andas such, a wall sized work could be painted “in miniature”.  Authors of the Yale University Presspublication, “The English Miniature” have stated that miniatures have beenpainted large and some works are even considered to be gigantic.  Numerous faculty members of the Victoria& AlbertMuseumin London confirm that miniaturepaintings are not restricted to smallness. Larger sized miniature paintings are documented throughout history andare recognized today, though painting larger works in miniature is moredifficult and time consuming than a smaller piece if the same attention todetail is observed.  Miniature art isalso unique in that it was and is often used on objects, such as the Russianlacquer boxes that are beautiful examples of Russian miniature painting. ExhibitionsToday, there are miniature art societies in western societyto help promote and preserve traditional miniature art and the “spirit ofminiature”.  Their exhibitions featurethe hand held miniature paintings (or sculptures) and each exhibition has itsown unique guidelines and rules for artists showing in their exhibit.  Some of these rules limit the size of work tobe no larger than a set square inch. Others limit the size of a subject, suchat the 1/6th scale rule that a subject may not be painted larger than 1/6th ofit's natural size, or the 2” rule, that an object in the painting may notexceed 2”.  Scale rules were initiallyput in place as a guide for artists starting out in miniature art.  There are also many framing restrictions forsociety miniature works as well.  All ofthese rules are put into place by each show for their own individual and uniqueexhibitions, and do not define what miniature art is.Artists painting miniatures throughout history were notrestricted in their artwork by scale as their subjects were painted to anymeasurement or scale that the artist deemed pleasing to the eye and theirpatrons, for both manuscripts and other miniatures.  Subjects that are naturally small in size,such as butterflies and insects, were painted life sized.  Thus the 1/6th scale rule that is used bysome shows and societies today unfortunately causes a bit of confusion to thosenew to the art form who commonly assume that is it a part of a mechanicalcriteria of the miniature's definition. The world's experts in miniatures do not recognize the rule aslegitimate, and view those embracing it as unknowledgeable, and dismiss them.The term "miniature", as it addresses miniaturepainting, is often confused with "miniaturize" and some miniature artexhibitions do not refer to miniature as it's initial meaning of techniques,but rather the size of the painting (miniaturized painting).  They are two very separate descriptions.Miniature painting is an art form that is very rich inhistory that continues today by artists from around the globe.  The beautiful ornamental qualities of theminiature should be preserved whether it be the intricate large pieces, orintimate hand held works.Many thanks to Joan Willies RMS, the Victoria& Albert Museum,& Patrick Noon.