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Nicholas Hilliard
1547-1619
British
Nicholas Hilliard Galleries
Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547?CJanuary 7, 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 ten inches tall, and at least the two famous half-length panel portraits of Elizabeth. He enjoyed continuing success as an artist, and continuing financial troubles, for forty-five years, and 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.
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Painting ID:: 2317
Portrait of George Clifford The Earl of Cumberland
1590
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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Painting ID:: 2318
Young Man Leaning Against a Tree
c1590
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Painting ID:: 21606
Portrait of George Clifford,Earl of Cumberland (mk08)
c.1590
Mixed media on parchment
25.7X17.8CM
Greenwich,National Maritime Museum
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Painting ID:: 23315
Young Man Leaning Against a Tree (nn03)
c 1590
Watercolour on vellum 13.4 x 7 cm 5 1/4 x 6 3/4 in Victoria and Albert Museum London
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Painting ID:: 26760
Self-Portrait,Aged Thirty
1577
Watercolour on vellum,diameter 4.1cm
Victoria and Albert Museum,London
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Nicholas Hilliard
1547-1619
British
Nicholas Hilliard Galleries
Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547?CJanuary 7, 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 ten inches tall, and at least the two famous half-length panel portraits of Elizabeth. He enjoyed continuing success as an artist, and continuing financial troubles, for forty-five years, and 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.
. Related Artists to Nicholas Hilliard: | THORNHILL, Sir James | Piero di Cosimo | LEYSTER, Judith | Dennis Miller Bunker | Curt Herrmann |
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