DETAILS
- Artist
- Nicholas Hilliard
- Date
- 1475
- Location
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
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THE ARTIST
Nicholas Hilliard
Nicholas Hilliard was the preeminent English limner of Elizabeth I and James I, capturing the essence of Elizabethan England in exquisite miniature portraits.
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