Portrait of Eye of a Lady
English
c. 1800
Medium
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions
Diam.: 1.6 cm (3 in.); Framed: Diam.: 1.9 cm (3/4 in.)
Classification
miniature painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
20504
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
English
Simon English, born in Berlin in 1959, is a British contemporary artist who lives and works in London. His early years were marked by personal loss, as his father, a British soldier, died in a car accident when English was just two and a half years old, after which the family relocated to Dorset. Drawing became an escape from a young age, and he pursued formal training with a foundation course at ...