Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547 – 7 January 1619) was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England. He mostly painted small oval miniatures, but also some larger cabinet miniatures, up to about 10 inches (25 centimetres) tall, and at least two famous half-length panel portraits of Elizabeth. He enjoyed continuing success as an artist, and continuing financial troubles, for forty-five years. His paintings still exemplify the visual image of Elizabethan England, very different from that of most of Europe in the late sixteenth century. Technically he was very conservative by European standards, but his paintings are superbly executed and have a freshness and charm that has ensured his continuing reputation as "the central artistic figure of the Elizabethan age, the only English painter whose work reflects, in its delicate microcosm, the world of Shakespeare's earlier plays."[1]
NicholasHilliard (c. 1547 – 7 January 1619) was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth...
granted rights to produce her portrait to a single artist, although NicholasHilliard was appointed her official limner, or miniaturist and goldsmith. George...
70. Loades, xv. "'Queen Elizabeth I: The Pelican Portrait', called NicholasHilliard (c. 1573)", Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom: National...
pendant shown on Elizabeth's breast. It is generally attributed to NicholasHilliard, on the basis of a scientific study and similarities to his other...
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1540 is suggested from two portraits: one a miniature, painted by NicholasHilliard in 1581, when he was allegedly 42, which would place his birth c....
August 2023. "Nicholas Robin Frank Woodeson - Heathfield Court (Chiswick) Limited". Companies House. Retrieved 16 August 2023. "Nicholas Robin Frank Woodeson...
miniaturist at the English court between Hans Holbein the Younger and NicholasHilliard. Her father, Simon Bening, was a renowned book illuminator and miniature...
called the Pelican Portrait was painted around 1573, probably by NicholasHilliard. The pelican is featured in many Christian artworks, especially in...
Laurence Hilliard (1582–1648) was an English miniature painter. Hilliard, a son of NicholasHilliard (1547–1619) and his wife Alice Brandon (1556–1611)...
music. The group was named after the Elizabethan miniaturist painter NicholasHilliard. Founded in 1974, the group disbanded in 2014. Although most of its...
Tony Haygarth has argued that a certain 1593 miniature portrait by NicholasHilliard depicts Lanier. John Hudson points out that the names Emilia in Othello...
Gower Benozzo Gozzoli El Greco Matthias Grünewald Juan de Herrera NicholasHilliard Francisco de Holanda Hans Holbein the Younger Inigo Jones Conrad Faber...
though French influence was also important on both Lucas Horenbout and NicholasHilliard, respectively the founder and the greatest exponent of the distinctively...
Bacon. Large miniature of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland by NicholasHilliard in 1590 after his appointment as the Queen's Champion. Elizabeth Cary...
from a Cloud, by NicholasHilliard dated 1588. This was identified as Shakespeare by Leslie Hotson in his book Shakespeare by Hilliard (1977). Sceptical...
Wars of Religion in France. He then studied miniature painting under NicholasHilliard; and developed a naturalistic style, which was largely influenced...
the Earl of Essex and Anthony Bacon, sent her miniature portrait by NicholasHilliard to Prince Henry, and this was received by his guardian, the Earl of...
be highly extravagant pieces of jewellery. The Elizabethan artist NicholasHilliard was both a goldsmith and miniaturist, and so produced the whole of...
Brian Barker, QC. The Crown Prosecution Service was represented by NicholasHilliard, QC and Duncan Penny. Braithwaite was represented by Orlando Pownall...
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