This text, presented here in a revised edition, traces the development of portrait painting from the medieval effigy to the glamour of Edwardian oil paintings. It covers European as well as British styles of art and illustrates an immense variety of media and techniques, including silhouettes, photography, oils, miniatures and wax portraits, and demonstrates the history of the notion of an ideal "English" face.
- ISBN10 1855143305
- ISBN13 9781855143302
- Publish Date 8 May 2001 (first published November 1978)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 August 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint National Portrait Gallery Publications
- Edition Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 264
- Language English