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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aureliel, post: 326152, member: 3623&quot;]I have recently bought an antique miniature portrait and have been curious about it. As I don&#039;t know much about portrait paintings, I&#039;m hoping perhaps someone here will be able to help me shed some light on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The miniature is hand-painted and is in (what seems to me) a Georgian frame. On the right side it is signed &quot;Kucharski&quot; or perhaps &quot;Kucharsky&quot; - a bit hard to tell. Since acquiring the portrait I have done a little research as I was wondering about the lady in the portrait (love her!), and have come across this image reproduced many times in various ways in the late Victorian / Edwardian period. It appears to be the Countess Potecka by Alexander Kurcharski.</p><p><br /></p><p>I imagine that this is a very well done copy, but until now I was under the impression that miniature copies of famous paintings were mostly done in later Victorian times and not so much in the Georgian period. Were copies of famous paintings done in miniature form in the Georgian times as well? It is a Georgian frame the portrait is in, is it not? I don&#039;t know very much about it so maybe I&#039;m wrong about that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Secondly, I have seen miniature copies of famous paintings signed with the name of the artist who made the copy (with sometimes &quot;after so-and-so&quot; naming the original artist), but was it also perhaps the case sometimes that the miniature would be signed in the name of the original artist without mentioning the artist who made the copy? Would a miniature copy of say, the Duchess of Devonshire portrait by Gainsborough ever be signed just &quot;Gainsborough&quot; without the name of the miniature artist?</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, what would this type of paining be called - do you think it is a watercolour or something else? I have not opened the frame and it has glass covering the front.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you very much for any insight you may be willing to share! I really appreciate it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]108822[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]108823[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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