poetry and portraiture

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

poetry and portraiture, portrait miniature, Portraiture

Alice Hilliard

Hilliard’s lovely portrait of his beloved Alice now in the V&A, London