In 2016, one of the most important miniature paintings of the Jacobean age – Isaac Oliver’s cabinet miniature of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury – was secured in perpetuity for Powis Castle in Wales.
It was purchased by private treaty with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund, the late Hon. Simon Sainsbury, Winifred Hooper, and National Trust members and supporters.
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In 2019, the miniature joined the exhibition Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver at the National Portrait Gallery.
In 2018, the miniature formed the centrepiece of the exhibition House of Portraits at Powis Castle. A guidebook by John Chu accompanied the exhibition.