13
February 2025

Nicholas Hilliard and the Art of the Miniature

The Arts Society Teignbridge
Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 10:30
Courtenay Centre
Kingsteignton Road Newton Abbot TQ12 2QA
Online Event

This lecture outlines Hilliard’s career and explores the changing styles demanded by his patrons.

 

Nicholas Hilliard captured a glowing, delicate and intimate image of the Elizabethans in his jewel-like portrait miniatures. This lecture outlines Hilliard’s career and explores the changing styles demanded by his patrons.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Dr Gillian White

Dr Gillian White specialises in the history and visual arts of late medieval and sixteenth-century England. After beginning her career at the Warwickshire Museum, she then worked for the National Trust as Curator/Collections Manager at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, about which she wrote her PhD at Warwick University. Since that she taught part-time at Leicester University in the Centre for the Study of the Country House and continues to teach History of Art in the Department of Continuing Education at Oxford University and elsewhere.

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