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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 ...
Miniature by Hilliard, 1572 The Phoenix Portrait, c. 1575, attributed to Hilliard Emmanuel College charter, 1584. Nicholas Hilliard was an apprentice to the Queen's jeweller Robert Brandon, [29] a goldsmith and city chamberlain of London, and Strong suggests that Hilliard may also have been trained in the art of limning by Levina Teerlinc. [29]
Miniature portrait painting dates back to the 16th century and was introduced by artists of the Tudor Court including Hans Holbein the Younger, later continued by artists including Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver and Samuel Cooper. Modern miniature painting respects many of the principles originally set by Hilliard. [14]
Miniature portrait, possibly of Levina Teerlinc, painted by Nicholas Hilliard in 1572, when the lady in the picture was 52 years of age. Buccleuch Collection [1]. Levina Teerlinc (1510s – 23 June 1576) was a Flemish Renaissance miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
Nicholas Hilliard received £400 as a gift in 1591, and an annuity of £40 from 1599; [34] he typically charged £3 for a non-royal miniature. The sums spent on metalwork, building palaces, and by Henry on tapestries, dwarfed these figures.
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A British teenager will go on trial next year accused of throwing a six-year-old French boy from a 10th-floor viewing platform at London’s Tate Modern gallery. The 17-year-old, who wore a blue T ...
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