Antique miniature portraits of the Tormey-Holder Collection

 

 


About the Collection


The Tormey-Holder Collection is a private art collection owned and managed by Michael Tormey and James Holder of Saint Petersburg, Florida. The majority of the collection is comprised of antique portrait miniatures and objects of mourning, but full-sized portraits, sculptures and important photographs are also included in the mix.

 

  Click here to read an article about the inspiration behind the Tormey-Holder Collection of Antique Miniature Portraits.

 

 

 

 

 

About this Website


A primary goal of this website is to foster greater public awareness of miniature portraiture and the important role the art form played in the history and culture of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.* To this end, much like a brick-and-mortar museum, we share with visitors a glimpse of the many paintings that make up the Tormey-Holder Collection. Visitors will also find herein a growing volume of scholarly articles that aim to expand on the existing body of knowledge about the artists who painted such works. (Most of these articles are published in PDF form, so please be aware that download times may be slow at times, depending on your internet connection.)


Photographs of select miniatures can be found on our holdings pages, which serve as a digital catalog, much like printed catalogs published by other museums and galleries to highlight their own collections. Holdings have been divided by geographic regions (American, British & Irish, and European) and have been further subdivided by century.


Please note, too, that this website is a work in progress. At this time, only a fraction of collection holdings have been cataloged herein. Additional photographs and articles will continue to be uploaded over time, so please plan to visit again in the near future.


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*Miniature portraiture existed as early as the sixteenth century, but this collection focuses on miniatures of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, when the art form became more widely accessible to the middle class and, therefore, took on greater cultural significance.

 

 

 

 

 


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