Previously unknown portrait in a private collection.
Author: Melanie V Taylor
Freelance lecturer on art history and all aspects of history. Currently researching the creators of illuminated manuscripts of the latter part of the 15th century. Principal of Ashtead Art Lovers - founded in 2007.
Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619)
Nicholas Hilliard 1577 (Copyright V&A Museum, London. 41mm dia) We know little about Nicholas Hilliard. The bare facts are that he was born in Exeter in about 1547, to Richard and Laurance Hilliard and was their eldest child. Richard Hilliard was a goldsmith and, together with John Bodley, was a leading light in Exeter society. … Continue reading Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619)
Mine eye hath play’d the painter
Mine eye hath play’d the painter and hath steel’d Thy beauty’s form in the table of my heart; My body is the frame wherein ’tis held, And perspective is the painter’s art. For through the painter must you see his skill, To find where your true image pictured lies; Which in my bosom’s shop is… Continue reading Mine eye hath play’d the painter
Amy Robsart (1532-1560) – possibly!
Another theory regarding the Yale miniature. Is it Amy Robsart and who is it painted by?
Alice Hilliard
Hilliard’s lovely portrait of his beloved Alice now in the V&A, London
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