Painters to the Elizabethan and Jacobean Courts: Nicholas Hilliard & Isaac Oliver (Guest Post)
Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) & Isaac Oliver (1565-1617) Guest post by Melanie V. Taylor Nicholas Hilliard was England’s first English artist to become internationally famous. His self portrait (© Victoria & Albert Museum, London) is a mere 41mm in diameter (1.6 inches) and it is for these exquisitely delicate and miniature images of Elizabeth I and her court that he becomes famous. I fell in love with Hilliard’s miniatures portraits when I was a teenage [More]