miniaturist

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Owners of the private collection contacted Dr Goldring after reading her book on Hilliard, suspecting the tiny painting in their collection to be of the renowned miniaturist.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025

After Stork died in 1925, Bush remained in Sierra Madre, a celebrity miniaturist, beloved in the community and — as far as we know — alone.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 17, 2022

The ball does set things spinning, but when Nella feels a strange prickling sensation on the back of her neck, she wonders if the miniaturist has returned.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2021

Hong, a prolific miniaturist with an unmatched eye and ear for heterosexual romantic disappointment, is often compared to Eric Rohmer, the French writer-director who specialized in fables of wayward desire among the bourgeois-bohemian class.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2021

We call them miniatures, but we must remember that by “miniator” a Roman bookseller would not understand what we call a miniaturist; and, as we have said, the word “illuminator” was not then known.

From Illuminated Manuscripts by Bradley, John William