#edward miles

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Growing the Big One (2010) screencaps, pt. 1

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Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843)

Edward Miles, c.1792-3

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Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), by Edward Miles, 1794

In her diary for 4 April 1794, Queen Charlotte noted that she ‘sate for my Picture to Mr Miles’. In the following year, in the Royal Academy catalogue, Edward Miles, the artist, described himself as ‘Miniature Painter to Her Majesty’. Compared with earlier images of the Queen, this portrait is more informal, her hair looser and her dress simpler, perhaps all connected with the recent troubles she had endured, including her husband’s illness and the French Revolution.

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Princess Augusta (1768-1840)

By Edward Miles, c.1792.

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Princess Augusta (1768-1840)

By Edward Miles, c. 1794.

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Prince Edward of the United Kingdom, later Duke of Kent. Painted by Edward Miles in 1791.

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Sir William Beechey

Portrait of Edward Miles (1785)

When Beechey painted this portrait in 1785, the two artists were living near each other in Norwich. Miles, a miniature painter born in Yarmouth, Norfolk, in 1752, was Beechey’s contemporary. Both entered the Royal Academy schools in 1772, Miles first showing there in 1775 and Beechey the following year. Miles became miniature painter to Queen Charlotte in 1794, and in 1797 moved to St. Petersburg, serving Czars Paul I and Alexander I in the same capacity. In 1807 he settled in Philadelphia, where he died in 1828.