Picture in Little
Charles Nicholl: Hilliard’s Trajectory, 19 December 2019
Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist
by Elizabeth Goldring.
Yale, 337 pp., £40, February 2019,978 0 300 24142 6 Show More
by Elizabeth Goldring.
Yale, 337 pp., £40, February 2019,
“... backed with playing cards: sometimes the face of the card is left visible so a picture of a court lady or melancholy lover has a couple of hearts on the reverse – a little secret between the limner and his sitter.Hilliard’s standard fee for a portrait miniature was £3 (around £500 in modern money), though a fancy locket, jewelled setting or ivory case ... ”