Elizabethan Treasures
Complement the Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver exhibition by exploring the National Portrait Gallery's Collection of Elizabethan and early Jacobean miniatures.
Choose any portrait here to explore fascinating details through the Image zoom and supplementary Images features.
Katherine of Aragon
attributed to Lucas Horenbout (or Hornebolte)
circa 1525
NPG 4682
Queen Mary I
attributed to Lucas Horenbout (or Hornebolte)
circa 1525
NPG 6453
Katherine of Aragon
attributed to Lucas Horenbout (or Hornebolte)
circa 1525-1526
NPG L244
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger
circa 1532-1533
NPG 6310
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
studio of Hans Holbein the Younger
circa 1537
NPG 6311
Queen Elizabeth I
by Nicholas Hilliard
1572
NPG 108
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
by Nicholas Hilliard
1576
NPG 4197
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban
by Nicholas Hilliard
1578
NPG 6761
Sir Francis Drake
by Nicholas Hilliard
1581
NPG 4851
Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh)
by Nicholas Hilliard
circa 1585
NPG 4106
John Maitland, 1st Baron Maitland
by Unknown artist
circa 1588
NPG 2769
Sir Christopher Hatton
by Nicholas Hilliard
after 1588
NPG 5549
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
by Nicholas Hilliard
circa 1590
NPG 5994
Isaac Oliver
by Isaac Oliver
circa 1590
NPG 4852
Unknown man, possibly George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland
by Nicholas Hilliard
circa 1590
NPG 6273
Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby
by Isaac Oliver
circa 1590
NPG 6302
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
attributed to studio of Nicholas Hilliard
circa 1595
NPG 6241
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
by Isaac Oliver
after 1596
NPG 4966
Ludovic Stuart, 1st Duke of Richmond and 2nd Duke of Lennox
by Isaac Oliver
circa 1605
NPG 3063
Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset
by Nicholas Hilliard
circa 1611
NPG 4260
Anne of Denmark
by Isaac Oliver
circa 1612
NPG 4010
King Charles I
studio of Isaac Oliver
circa 1616, based on a work of circa 1616
NPG 3064