Hilliard, Nicholas
(b Exeter, c.1547; bur. London, 7 Jan. 1619).English miniaturist, the most celebrated of all practitioners of his art and a central figure in establishing the portrait miniature as a distinctive genre in Britain. He was the son of an Exeter goldsmith and himself trained in this craft, completing a seven-year apprenticeship in London in ... ...
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