Lover’s Eyes Eye miniatures from the Skier collection

Until the early 2000s, little had been written about eye miniatures or "Lover's Eyes", and their short-lived popularity at the end of the 18th- and early 19th-centuries, when hand-painted portraits of single human eyes were set in jewellery, or created to memorialize a deceased loved one.

This new expanded and updated edition of the 2012 volume The Look of Love examines their role in the broader context of Georgian and early Victorian portrait miniatures; and looks in detail at the creation, and appeal, of these extraordinary objects.