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This catalogue accompanies Miniatures from the Bearsted Collection (19 November – 19 December 2025), an intimate exhibition of eight exceptional Elizabethan and Jacobean portrait miniatures by the master miniaturists Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) and Isaac Oliver (c. 1565-1617).
Acquired from the descendants of Viscount Bearsted, one of Britain’s most discerning early twentieth-century collectors, the collection offers an intimate glimpse into the art of limning and the evolution of miniature painting in England.
Produced in collaboration with Dr Elizabeth Goldring, the comprehensive catalogue includes new scholarship and detailed entries on each miniature.
AUTHORS
Dr Elizabeth Goldring FSA FRHistS is an Honorary Reader at the University of Warwick. Her many publications include Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art (Yale, 2014), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Art History, and Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist (Yale, 2019), which won Apollo Magazine’s ‘Art Book of the Year’ Award. Her latest book, Holbein: Renaissance Master, is published by Yale/The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art on 11 November 2025.
Lawrence Hendra is Director and Head of Research at Philip Mould & Company. Lawrence has curated numerous exhibitions for the gallery including John Smart: A Genius Magnified (2014), Cedric Morris: Beyond the Garden Wall (2018), Love’s Labour’s Found: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture (2020) and Charleston: The Bloomsbury Muse (2020/21). In 2019, he edited and published a previously lost manuscript on Ambrose McEvoy Divine People: The Art and Life of Ambrose McEvoy, which was nominated for the long list of the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History (2020).
