Nicholas Hilliard Sold at Auction Prices

Nicholas Hilliard (Exeter 1546/7 - London 1618)

Henry Wriothesely, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573-1624), wearing white doublet slashed and pinked to reveal gold, gold-edged jewelled buttons, starched lace-edged high ruff, blue sash and Order of the Lesser George suspended from his neck, crimson curtain background, gold edge watercolour on vellum backed with card, the reverse inscribed in a later hand in ink, Henry Wriothesley/ Earl of Southampton/ by Isaac Oliver, later silver gilt frame, the reverse engraved, Third Earl/ of/ Southampton/ by I Oliver Oval, 50mm. (1 15/16ins.) high