Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547 – before 7 January 1619) was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England.

Nicholas Hilliard (born 1547, Exeter, Devon, Eng.—died Jan. 7, 1619, London) was the first great native-born English painter of the Renaissance. His lyrical portraits raised the art of painting miniature portraiture (called limning in Elizabethan England) to its highest point of development and did much to formulate the concept of portraiture ...

Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547 – 7 January 1619) was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England.

Nicholas Hilliard (1547 – 1619) is the most celebrated English miniaturist of the Elizabethan era. He pioneered the genre known as 'limning', which involved painting with rich, opaque watercolours on vellum (calfskin).

Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) trained as a goldsmith and became an outstanding painter of portrait miniatures, the first notable English artist of this medium. Elizabeth I appointed him her official limner, or miniature painter, a service to the monarch that he continued after the accession of James I in 1603.

Nicholas Hilliard (1547 – 1619) was a celebrated English goldsmith and painter best known for his miniature portraits in the Tudor and Stuart royal courts.

Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547 – 7 January 1619) was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England.

Jun 11, 2018 · The English painter Nicholas Hilliard (ca. 1547-1619) executed miniature portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and her courtiers, set in jeweled lockets, that are the most original and characteristic pictures painted in England in the late 16th century.