Virgin and Child
1662
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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Anna Maria Carew
Anna Maria Carew was an English miniature painter.
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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Virgin and Child is a 1662 unspecified by Anna Maria Carew, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a small, careful painting of Mary holding baby Jesus on her lap. This isn’t a tiny portrait locket—it’s a cabinet miniature, a small copy of a larger painting. Most miniatures showed fancy people, not holy scenes. This one copies a famous painting by Anthony van Dyck, but Anna Maria Carew made it her own with soft, quiet colors. To see how other artists painted the same scene, look up *england, 17th century*.
Larger in size than most portrait miniatures, the Madonna and Child by Anna Maria Carew is a cabinet miniature, or a small work on vellum, enamel, or ivory that copies a full-scale oil painting. In this case the original painting was by Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck, and engraved by Paulus Pontius around 1630 shortly after it was painted. As a cabinet miniature, this work is somewhat unusual because of its religious subject and its simplicity. Cabinet miniatures tended instead to reproduce paintings of dramatic subjects and climactic moments in myths or religious stories. They could be hung…
King Charles II awarded Carew an annual pension to copy in miniature from the royal collection.
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Anna Maria Carew was an English miniature painter.
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