Cindy is an art historian and independent lecturer and studied as a mature student for a Masters in History of Art at Birkbeck. Before that she
worked on the BBC radio World Service in current affairs. She is latterly an art guide at the Tate and Tate Modern. She is particularly keen to
draw parallels with art and social history.
This lecture centres on miniature portraits which were given as diplomatic gifts etc. and tokens of love between 16C-19CV commissioned as
small pictures which could be held in the hand or placed inside lockets and Cindy looks at the history of these tiny treasures of art.