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| Giuseppe Macpherson Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, il Sodoma (1477-1549) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson Luca Cambiaso (1507-1585) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson Caravaggio (1571-1610) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson Jusepe de Ribera (ca. 1591-1652) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson Rembrandt (1606-1669) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson Sassoferrato (1609-85) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson Giovanni Maria Morandi (1622-1717) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson François de Troy (1645-1730) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson Carel de Moor (1656-1738) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson Martin van Meytens (1695-1770) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Macpherson Jean-Baptiste Lebel (1708-1776) ca. 1770-80 watercolor on ivory Royal Collection, Great Britain |
"Giuseppe Macpherson (1726-1780) was born in Florence, the son of Donald Macpherson, a footman in the service of Alexander, 2nd duke of Gordon. He was a pupil of Pompeo Batoni and painted miniatures and enamel portraits in Italy, France and Germany, finally settling in Florence. [The miniatures above belong to] the collection of copies of 224 self-portraits by artists in the Uffizi Palace, Florence, that Lord Cowper, the art collector and patron, commissioned from Macpherson. Cowper presented the miniatures to King George III in two batches, in 1773 and 1786. Macpherson followed the original self-portraits quite closely, but copied only the head and shoulders."
– from curator's notes at the Royal Collection