Laurence Hilliard (1582–1648) was an

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. Hilliard, a son of

Nicholas Hilliard Nicholas Hilliard () was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England. He mostly painted small oval miniatures, but also some larger cabinet miniatures, ...

(1547–1619) and his wife Alice Brandon (1556–1611) – was christened on 5 March 1582. He evidently derived his Christian name from that of his grandmother, Laurence Wall, the daughter of John Wall, a London

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. He was married on 4 December 1611 to Jane (Cullymore) Farmer of

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– the widow of George Farmer and daughter of George Cullymore and Ellen Buckfoulde – at the church of St Saviour's,

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. They settled in at the parish of

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Hilliard adopted his father's profession and worked out the unexpired time of his licence after Nicholas Hilliard died in 1619. It was from Lawrence Hilliard that

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received the portrait of Queen Elizabeth now at

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, since Van der Dort's catalogue describes it as done by old Hilliard, and bought by the King of young Hilliard. In 1624 he was paid £42 from the treasury for five pictures, but the warrant does not specify whom they represented. His portraits are rare, two of the most beautiful being those in the collections of Earl Beauchamp and Mr J Pierpont Morgan. They are as a rule signed L.H., but are also to be distinguished by the beauty of the

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in which the inscriptions round the portraits are written. The writing is as a rule very florid, full of exquisite curves and flourishes, and more elaborate than the more formal handwriting of Nicholas Hilliard.

Death

His

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, dated 21 February 1641 and "seven years almost to the day", he was buried in the same parish of

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on 23 February 1648. He was survived by his four children: Brandon, Thomas, Charles, and his daughter Laurence who used to refer to herself as Laurentia Hilliard.

References

*Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, IGI nternational Genealogy Index*Mary Edmund, ''Hilliard and Oliver'' (1983) *

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, ''Dictionary of British Miniature Painters'' (1972) volumes* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hilliard, Lawrence 1582 births 1648 deaths 17th-century English painters English male painters English portrait painters Date of birth unknown Date of death unknown Painters from London