Self-portrait, aged 30

Nicholas Hilliard was born into the prosperous trading classes, the son of a goldsmith. By 1572 he had begun to work for Queen Elizabeth I.

This self-portrait marks Hilliard's first encounter with the Renaissance ideal of the artist as an individual of genius. Dating from Hilliard's visit to France in 1576-1578, its mood is very much that of the portraiture of the art-loving French court, where artists enjoyed a far higher status than their English counterparts. Its boldness and brilliance demand recognition of Hilliard’s genius, and express his aspirations to the status of a gentleman, not a tradesman. The reality on Hilliard's return to England was less ideal. A permanent position at court with all its attendant privileges eluded him, and he was compelled to set up as an artist in the City of London like any other craftsman.

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Pendant ce temps, chez Nicholas Hilliard

Dans la même salle · Portrait Miniatures, Room 90a, The International Music and Art Foundation Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum

Sur le même thème · Artist

Sources

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Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

An Unknown Man, aged 24

Portrait Miniature of an Unknown Woman

Richard Hilliard

An Unknown Woman

Portrait Miniature of Alice Brandon, Mrs Hilliard

Portrait miniature

Portrait of an unknown woman

Bertha Maria Crapper, the artist's mother, aged 70, 1933

Mrs Jean Elizabeth MccGwire, née Adair, ca. 1918

Eileen Marshall, 1912

Portrait Miniature of Miss Jean Elizabeth Adair, aged about 8, 1897

Portrait of Elizabeth, Lady Stuart de Rothesay, 1865

Portrait miniature of Mrs Bacon, 1841

Rev. John F. Colls, B.D, 1840

Portrait Miniature of Miss Burnaby Green, 1829

Jose Clemente Orozco, New York City, 1933, printed 1981

Alfred Stieglitz and Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe, An American Place, New York City, 1939, printed 1981

Sculptor and Model with a Sculpture Representing a Bull Attacking Horses (Sculpteur et son modèle avec un groupe sculpté représentant un taureau attaquant des chevaux), 1933

Sculptor at Rest I (Le repos du sculpteur I), 1933

Sculptor with His Model and Sculpture of Her Head (Sculpteur avec son modèle et sa sculpture), 1933

Sculptors, Models, and Sculpture (Sculpteurs, modèles et sculpture), 1933

A Young Greek Sculptor with Sculptures of a Man and an Ephebe (Jeune sculpteur Grec avec sa sculpture: un homme et un éphèbe), 1933

Young Woman in a Striped Blouse, 1949

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