Nicholas Hilliard
British artist (1547-1619)
Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547 – January 7 1619) was the first true english born painter of English miniatures .
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edit- How then can the curious drawer watch, and as it were catch these lovely graces, witty smilings, and those stolen glances which suddenly like lightning pass, and another countenance taketh place, except to behold and very well note and conceit to like.
- A Treatise Concerning the Arte of Limning, eds. R K R Thornton and T G S Cain, (Manchester, 1981), p. 77.
Misattributed
edit- A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
- George Stillman Hillard Six Months in Italy (1853), ch. 5.
