A Portrait of the Miniaturist as a Young Man:Nicholas Hilliard and the Painters of 1560s London

Abstract

Nothing is known for certain about Nicholas Hilliard's training as an artist.This essay addresses this problem by providing an account of the lives of the artists active in London during the decade in which he completed his apprenticeship.It focuses on the artists John Bettes the Elder, the Master of the Countess of Warwick and Steven van der Meulen, all of whom had a strong profile at Elizabethan court, and would have been familiar to the young Hilliard as he set about becoming painter in the 1560s.It goes on to present new information about a number of other painters rarely discussed in the literature, bringing to light works of art that have not been included in studies of Hilliard's life.Together, this provides both a broad context for Hilliard's formative years and offers a plausible scenario as to how he acquired the skills that made him the most successful miniaturist of his generation.

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