Wednesday, January 6, 2016

English miniatures of courtiers, 16th-17th centuries

Heneage Jewel
profile in gold of Queen Elizabeth I
ca. 1595
Victoria & Albert Museum

Small-scale relics from the courts of Elizabeth I and James I produced shortly before and shortly after the turn of the 16th century. The dominant miniature painters were Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) and Isaac Oliver (1565-1617).

Nicholas Hilliard
Unknown youth
ca. 1585-90
Victoria & Albert Museum

Nicholas Hilliard
Unknown woman
ca. 1590
Victoria & Albert Museum

Nicholas Hilliard
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
ca. 1590
National Portrait Gallery (U.K.)

Nicholas Hilliard
Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset
ca. 1611
National Portrait Gallery (U.K.)

Nicholas Hilliard
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
1576
National Portrait Gallery (U.K.)

Isaac Oliver
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
after 1596
National Portrait Gallery (U.K.)

Isaac Oliver
Self-portrait
ca. 1590
National Portrait Gallery (U.K.)

studio of Isaac Oliver
Henry, Prince of Wales
ca. 1610
National Portrait Gallery (U.K.)

Isaac Oliver
Anne of Denmark
ca. 1612
National Portrait Gallery (U.K.)

Isaac Oliver
Unknown girl, age 5
1590
Victoria & Albert Museum

Isaac Oliver
Peregrine Bertie
ca. 1590
Victoria & Albert Museum

Isaac Oliver
Unknown woman in masque costume
1609
Victoria & Albert Museum

Isaac Oliver
Unknown man
1610
Victoria & Albert Museum

Isaac Oliver
Unknown woman
ca. 1615
Victoria & Albert Museum

Isaac Oliver
Venetia Stanley
ca. 1615-22
Victoria & Albert Museum