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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:: 31329
A Youth Leaning Against a Tree Among Roses
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c.1588
Watercolor on vellum; Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Painting ID:: 31330
Queen Elizabeth I
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Nicholas Hilliard
62 x 48 cm
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Painting ID:: 32345
Portrait of George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland
c. 1590
Mixed media on parchment, 25,7 x 17,8 cm
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Painting ID:: 33615
Portrait of George Clifford Earl of Cumberland
mk86
c.1590
Mixed media on parchment
25.7x17.8cm
Greenwich,National Maritime Museum
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Painting ID:: 41364
The phoenix portrait of Queen Elizabeth
mk160
c.1575
The Jewel suspended from her necklace depicting a phoenix is an emblem of hereditary royalty
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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: | Emily Carr | Jules Tavernier | Juan de Espinosa | Marsal, Mariano Fortuny y | Jose del Castillo |
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