museums and institutions:
subjects:
British painting
/ Portraits
/ Self-portraits
/ Sitters
/ Royalty
/ Queens (people)
/ Diplomats
/ Philosophers
/ Authors
/ Patrons
/ Collectors
/ Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
/ Paulet, Amias, Sir, c.1533–88
/ Dudley, Robert, First Earl of Leicester, 1532?-1588
/ Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
/ Francis d'Anjou, Duke of Anjou and Alençon, 1555-1584
/ Marguerite de Valois, 1553–1615
/ Ronsard, Pierre de
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/ Gifts
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/ Identification
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/ Correspondence
/ Scientific analysis
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/ Panel paintings
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/ Pendants (companion pieces)
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Attributed works:
1. Self-portrait, aged thirty, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1577. Watercolour on vellum put down on card, diameter 4.1 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
10. Alice Brandon, Mrs Hilliard, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1578. Watercolour on vellum mounted on card, 5.9 by 5.75 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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11. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1578. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum mounted on card, 6 by 4.7 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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12. Above Details of eyes in (a) Fig.6 photographed in normal light; (b) Fig.6 photographed in raking light; and (c) Fig.11.
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13. (a) Detail of Sir Walter Raleigh, by Nicholas Hilliard, showing lace from the ruff. c.1585. Watercolour on vellum, 4.8 by 4.1 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London); and (b) Detail of Fig.6 in raking light showing lace from the ruff.
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14. Detail of Fig.5 photographed in (a) normal light; and (b) raking light, showing the impasto of the sitter’s curls of hair.
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15. Infra-red reflectography detail of Fig.5, showing earring and curls of hair.
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16. Detail of Fig.5, showing wet-on-wet stippling in the lips.
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17. Detail of Fig.6, showing the medallion.
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18. Cast of a Renaissance cameo depicting a maenad, by James Tassie. Eighteenth century. Plaster. (Photograph The Beazley Archive, The Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford).
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19. François I, by Jean Clouet. c.1530. Panel, 96 by 74 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Queen Elizabeth I, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1572. Watercolour on vellum, 5.1 by 4.8 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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20. A Woman at her bath, by François Clouet. c.1571. Panel, 92.3 by 81.2 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington; Bridgeman Images).
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21. Louis de Gonzague, duc de Nevers, and Heriette de Cleves, duchesse de Nevers, after Nicholas Hilliard. 1578. Woodcut. From The English Miniature, by Roy Strong, London 1983, p.79.
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22. Top left François Hercule, Duc d’Alençon, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1580. Watercolour on vellum mounted on card, 4.8 by 3.9 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
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23. Top right A woman, called Marguerite of Valois, Queen of Navarre, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1577. Watercolour and gouache on vellum, 5.7 by 4.5 cm. (Photograph Sotheby’s, London).
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24. Bottom left Unknown man, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1577. Watercolour and gouache on vellum, 5.8 by 6.4 cm. (Musée Condé, Chantilly).
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25. Bottom right A gentleman in a black doublet and cloak, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1577. Watercolour and gouache on vellum. Height 5 cm. (Photograph Christie’s, London; Bridgeman Images).
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3. Queen Elizabeth I (‘The Pelican portrait’), by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1575. Panel, 78.7 by 61 cm. (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool).
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4. Queen Elizabeth I (‘The Phoenix portrait’), by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1575. Panel, 78.7 by 61 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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5. Queen Elizabeth I, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1576-78. Panel, 81.5 by 61.2 cm. (Rothschild Family; photograph © Hamilton Kerr Institute).
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6. Sir Amias Paulet, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1576–78. Panel, 81.5 by 61 cm. (Rothschild Family; photograph © Hamilton Kerr Institute).
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7. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Steven van der Meulen. c.1564. Panel, 107 by 80 cm. (Rothschild Family; photograph © Waddesdon Image Library).
Attributed works:
8. Lord Rothschild’s bedroom at Tring Park, by H. Bedford Lemere. c.1890. From an album entitled Photographs of Tring Park by H. Bedford Lemere, 1890. (The Rothschild Archive, London).
Western art unattributed:
9. Sir Amias Paulet, by an unknown artist after Nicholas Hilliard. Canvas, 59 by 47 cm. (Government House, Jersey).
