Nicholas Hilliard – Portrait of a Young Man, Probably Robert Devereux (1566–1601), Second Earl of Essex – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436649
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
"Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver," May 27–July 31, 1947, no. 36 (as "A Man")
