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Nicholas Hilliard Quotes

d. 1619 England

Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547 – January 7 1619) was the first true english born painter of English miniatures .

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How then can the curious drawer watch, and as it were catch these lovely graces, witty smilings, and those stolen glances which suddenly like lightning pass, and another countenance taketh place, except to behold and very well note and conceit to like.

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Misattributed George Stillman Hillard Six Months in Italy (1853)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nicholas Hilliard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.