Nicholas Hilliard – Portrait of a Woman – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436651
The Artist: Nicholas Hilliard, the son of Richard Hilliard, an Exeter goldsmith, made his earliest known miniatures in 1560. He served his apprenticeship as a goldsmith, beginning in 1562 with Robert Brandon, whose daughter Alice he was to marry in 1576
remained the dominant figure in the art until the emergence of his pupil Isaac Oliver
