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Title: Robert Dudley (cabinet miniature of Sir Robert Dudley [1574-1649], English explorer and cartographer, self-styled Earl of Warwick and Leicester and Duke of Northumberland) Artist: Nicholas Hilliard (English, 1547-1619) Date: 1590s Genre: portraiture Period: Tudor (Elizabethan) Medium: watercolor on parchment Dimensions: 18.5 cm (7.2 in) high Location: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

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George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland,1558-1605

Minature portrait painted by Nicholas Hilliard c. 1590

The armour was undoubtedly made for Clifford in Henry VIII's armoury at Greenwich Palace, and the miniature is generally thought to commemorate his assumption in 1590 of the role of Queen Elizabeth's champion (in succession to Sir Henry Lee) and his first appearance as such in that year's Accession Day tilts at Whitehall (17 November). As her new champion he was also their organizer and he appeared both then and in later years in the guise of 'Knight of Pendragon Castle' . Her glove, with a crown visible on the embroidered fingers, is pinned to his plumed bonnet by a rose jewel with a pendant pearl.

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection

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Nicholas Hilliard — Queen Elizabeth I (The Pelican Portrait). circa 1574. detail

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A previously unknown portrait of a noblewoman known as ‘England’s lost queen’ has been discovered by art historians Elizabeth Goldring, of the University of Warwick’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, and Emma Rutherford.

The portrait, which is in a private collection, depicts 16th century noblewoman Lady Arbella Stuart, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth I, and a potential heir to her throne. She is shown wearing lavish court dress and standing in a garden at Greenwich Palace.

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Nicholas Hilliard | V&A

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Kiss with a Fist – Lungs // Queen Elizabeth I – attributed to Nicholas Hilliard 🐈‍⬛ Lover to Lover – Ceremonials // Portrait of a Woman – Antonis Mor 🐈‍⬛ Spectrum – Ceremonials // Catalina Micaela of Austria, Duchess of Savoy – Alonso Sánchez Coello 🐈‍⬛ Bedroom Hymns – Ceremonials // Portrait of Mary Rogers, Lady Harington – Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger 🐈‍⬛ June – High as Hope // Portrait of Madame Leblanc – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres ��‍⬛ South London Forever – High as Hope // Anna of Denmark, Duchess of Saxony – Lucas Cranach the Younger

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Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester by the renowned miniature painter, ca. 1575. Watercolour on vellum laid down on card, gilt-metal frame and gold bracelet slide frame respectively, 19mm (3/4in) high.

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1599 Nicholas Hilliard - Sir Thomas Griffin

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ON THIS DAY - 07 January 1619

On This Day (07 Jan) in 1619, Elizabethan portrait miniaturist and goldsmith Nicholas Hilliard, was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Westminster.

Hilliard was born in 1547 in Exeter, one of four sons born to Richard Hilliard, a prominent goldsmith. Having been placed in the household of John Bodley, a young Hilliard accompanied his family to the Continent from 1553-1559, as one of many Protestant 'Marian Exiles'. On his return to London, he appears to have started his study of portrait miniatures, as well as likely receiving direct tutelage, prior to commencing his 7 year goldsmith apprenticeship in 1562, which he incorporated into his miniatures.

Hilliard painted his first portrait miniature of Elizabeth I in 1572, likely introduced by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, who would become his long-term patron. He remained in favour throughout the queen's reign, continuing to portray her with the 'Mask of Youth'.

In 1576, Hilliard married Alice Brandon, one of the daughters of his Goldsmith Master Robert Brandon, as his father had done before him; the couple went on to have seven children, the last three named for Dudley and those closest to him, as an act of gratitude for his continued patronage - Lettice (b.1583), Penelope (b.1586) and Robert (b.1588).

It is unsurprising, therefore, that many members of Dudley's family sat for Hilliard, with many portraits miniatures produced for various members including his second wife Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester, and her children from her first marriage: Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.

Hilliard's specific date of death is not known, but it is likely to be around New Year 1619, early in his 72th year. His cause of death is also not known; however, it was reported that in his final years, he had been suffering from periods of gout and 'melancholia'. His burial date is confirmed in the parish register for the church - the only one in the parish that day, and recorded in the records as NICHOLAUS HILYARD.

See 'The Dudley Women' Blog Post for a more detailed look at the life, work, death and burial of Nicholas Hilliard:

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Nicholas Hilliard (English, 1547-1619) A Lady from the English court, ca.1590 Victoria and Albert Museum

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Nicholas Hilliard, Queen Elizabeth I, 1576–78, detail—The Waddesdon Portrait ..

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Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, 1590-95

Nicholas Hilliard

Watercolour and bodycolour on velum, laid on card

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Hanging on a branch of the nearest tree in the inner right hedge is a pair of scales. Suspended from the left arm is a globe or a cannon ball balanced by a feather on the longer right arm. Near the feather is the Italian word ―TANTI.

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The seal of ELIZABETH I

It depicts the queen in typically resplendent dress, flanked by the royal arms and Tudor roses. It was engraved by the celebrated miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard.

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Queen Elizabeth I, 16th Century Attributed to Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619, English)

There is a huge pelican jewel, silk ribboned sleeves (fantastically painted!), intersected by pink and gold flowers that are either beads or embroidery, and a flower corsage (is that a pink carnation and something that looks like blossom?).

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Portrait of a Woman, Nicholas Hilliard, 1597

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Nicholas Hilliard, Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, date unknown. Oil on wood panel