Andrew Plimer: The Miniature Master of Victorian London The world of 18th and 19th-century portraiture was dominated by grand canvases depicting the wealthy and powerful, yet within this landscape flourished a quieter, more intimate art form – the miniature. Andrew Plimer (1763-1837) stands as one of its most distinguished practitioners, a British artist whose exquisite portraits, often no larger than a hand’s breadth, captured the es…