Sunday, December 5, 2010

Nicholas Hilliard




self portorit 1577

Nicholas Hilliard was born in 1547 and died in 1619, he was English. His work was conservative in style but very sensitive to the character of the sitter. The colors her used are opaque, and gold is used to heighten the effect, while the paintings are on card. They are often signed, and have frequently also a Latin motto upon them.

He had a reputation because of his work 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."




miniature 1572


Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I 1586-1587 Miniature painting

The "Pelican Portrait"1575

The "Phoenix Portrait"1575


1580


1587
1595-1600

1595-1600

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