The class of 2018 look anew at established materials and techniques to explore key themes of visual culture on their own terms, writes Paul Caffrey
Paul Caffrey charts the extraordinary life and travels of Irish man John Ramage, 18th-century miniaturist, goldsmith, pastellist, socialite and bigamist, whose portrait of George Washington was sold last year in New York for $1.1 million
Phyllis Arnold continues the miniaturist’s art of capturing informal portraits of loved ones, writes Paul Caffrey
Paul Caffrey gives an account of Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Ireland’s leading portrait painter, and the subject of a forthcoming exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland in this, the bicentenary year of the artist’s death
paul Caffrey gives a thumbnail sketch of 18th-century society drawn from the worlds of art, academia and the stage, as seen in the Comerford Collection
Paul Caffrey explores a remarkable collection of Irish miniatures which provide a visual history of the family of the Earls of Shannon of Castle Martyr, County Cork
Paul Caffrey examines a newly discovered and undocumented portrait by the leading 18th-century miniaturist
