Enamel
A smooth, glossy material made from soft glass, obtained by adding metal oxides to a base enamel paste. Colours are painted or printed on to a hard surface and then fired, creating a permanent, glossy finish. Today the word 'enamel' is used loosely to describe a glossy protective covering applied to the surface of objects made from metal, wood or ceramic.
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Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne
attributed to Jean Petitot
1640s?
NPG 3066
King William III
by Charles Boit
1690s
NPG 1737
Mary, Lady Walpole
by Charles Boit
circa 1715
NPG 6418
Thomas Winnington
by Christian Friedrich Zincke
1720s
NPG 85
Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton
by Christian Friedrich Zincke
circa 1720-1725
NPG 6417
Nathaniel Hone
by Nathaniel Hone
circa 1755
NPG 1878
George Stubbs
by George Stubbs
1781
NPG 4575
John Bacon the Elder
by William Bate, after Mason Chamberlin
(1785)
NPG 6289
Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
by Henry Bone, after Sir William Beechey
1801 (circa 1793)
NPG 6290
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Bt
by Charles Muss, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
(1806-1807)
NPG 1256
Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson
by Henry Pierce Bone, after Lemuel Francis Abbott
1840 (1797)
NPG 6294
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
by Henry Pierce Bone, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
1845 (exhibited 1822)
NPG 6297
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