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Item No: 25392
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| Keywords: Queen Elizabeth I, Woman, Portrait, Necklace, Crown, Flower, Rose, Renaissance, Northern, English, Portrait, Lady, Woman, Figure, Head, Costume, Dress, Embroidery, Ruff, Jewels, Pearls, Oil, Painting, Stately, Masters, Northern, Renaissance, |
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Hilliard, Nicholas (c.1547-c.1619)
Nicholas Hilliard was born in Exeter, the younger son of Richard Hilliard, High Sheriff of Devon, in 1560. He received his early training as a goldsmith and Jeweller in London. He later studied the art of miniature painting. He learned minuteness of detail and even lighting from the works of Holbein. His appreciation of nature and elongation of form derive from the School of Fontainebleau and are the result of a visit to France in 1578 in the service of the Duke of Alencon. In 1600, Hilliard's book Treatise on the Arte of Limning was published. In this work, he discusses his technique of miniature painting and recommends painting in the open air to avoid shadows, evidence of his desire for luminosity, transparency, and simplicity. The first native-born English artist to acquire a reputation that has withstood the test of time, Hilliard was, by 1590, sculptor and court painter to Queen Elizabeth I for whom he had engraved the Great Seal of England in 1587. In 1603 James I granted him, by letters patent, the exclusive privilege to mint, make grave, and imprint any pictures of our irnage or our royal family." Lawrence Hilliard, his son and pupil, enjoyed this patent after the death of his father until it expired." |
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