Nicholas Hilliard

Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) was the first great native-born English painter of ...

• the Renaissance.

• the Rococo.

• perpendicular Gothic.

• the Baroque.

His lyrical portraits raised the art of ... to its highest point of development and did much to formulate the concept of portraiture in art.

• miniature portraits

• abstract still lifes

• great scale landscapes

• parchments with spells

Another English word for miniature portraiture is l - - - - - g.

Hilliard was miniature painter to ... and made many portraits of her/him and of the leading members of the court. (you can choose more than one answer)

• King Henry VIII

• Queen Mary I

• Queen Elizabeth I

• King James I

Apart from being a miniaturist, Hilliard was also ... (you can choose more than one answer)

• a sitter.

• an apothecary.

• a jeweller.

• a goldsmith.

In his ... (c. 1600) he gives an account of his method and many sidelights on his own mercurial and engaging temperament.

• Eulogy to the British Fine Arts

• Treatise on the Arte of Limning

• Ode to Portraiture

• Pamphlet on the Grimaces of Sitters

Hilliard was greatly influenced by ...

• William Joseph Mallard Turner.

• Anthony van Dyck.

• Hans Holbein the Younger.

• Kazimir Malevich.

Some art historians believe that Hilliard had to write his book in order to compensate for his ...

• low descent.

• noble background.

• aristocratic roots.

• Dutch origin.

On the accession of James I, in 1603, Hilliard's appointment as limner to the crown was ...

• doomed.

• postponed.

• cancelled.

• continued.

This is ...

• William Shakespeare.

• Sir Francis Drake.

• Sir Walter Ralegh.

• Miss Elizabeth Bennett.

• Nicholas Hilliard, the great limner himself.