Queen Elizabeth l, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir Walter Raleigh were the celebrated figures of their age, but what did they really look like? In the years before ...

T he house was ‘at the sign of the Maidenhead’ in an alley off Cheapside called Gutter Lane. The address sounds disreputable but those who visited were not in search of bawdy pleasures: they came to ...

The work by Nicholas Hilliard, estimated to be worth at least £750,000, is revealed for the first time today ahead of its appearance in the National Portrait Gallery.

The knowing glances of wealthy sitters in meticulous tiny portraits painted by Nicholas Hilliard between 1571 and about 1618 are mesmerising, leaping 400 years like a lover’s dart.

Nicholas Hilliard's painting, known as the Coronation Miniature, will be displayed at The Harley Foundation. A miniature painting of Queen Elizabeth I is set to go on show in Nottinghamshire.

Big isn’t always better. Not here, anyway, because this is a show full of tiny, tiny, tiny paintings, ... courtiers and poshos by the masters of the form, Isaac Oliver and Nicholas Hilliard. ...