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Bath Miniature Painters. By Percy H. Bare. 
(Read March 13th, 1895). 
It would be quite out of place here to give any disquisition 
on the origin and history of the art of portrait painting in 
miniature—it will be sufficient if I remind my hearers that it is 
undoubtedly a survival of the beantiful medieval art of 
illuminating. In many of the choicest manuscripts of the 
NOTICE. 
Any opinions expressed in the 
Proceedings of the Club must rest 
on the authority of their vespective 
Authors. 
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expected to flourish in the provinces, away from the court. 
_ beauties, whose charms the artist immortalised, and the rich 
_ connoisseurs, who could afford to encourage his work ; and the 
fact that miniature painting has flourished for so long in Bath is. 
_ due to the circumstance that the city was, during so many years, 
the centre of the gay and fashionable life of the country. In 
fact, the earliest trace that I have discovered of a miniaturist 
_ working here is curiously synchronous with what Professor 
- Earle so well calls the ‘Rise of Fashion,” and synchronous also 
with the commencement of the vogue of Bath as a resort for the 
beau monde : the same first quarter of the eighteenth century that 
saw the erection of the Parades saw also the first miniaturist. 
_ Oo Vou. VIIL, No. 3. 
