The three-quarter length format and swaggering hand-on-hip pose seen here are more commonly seen in full-scale portraiture of the period than miniature painting. As this self-portrait attests, Isaac Oliver's miniatures had a strong sense of three-dimensionality that particularly appealed to Anne of Denmark, although her husband, James I, continued to favour the more traditional style of Nicholas Hilliard with whom Oliver had trained.
 
Cat. 8