Talk:Nicholas Hilliard

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Did you know... that Nicholas Hilliard (pictured), portrait miniaturist to Elizabeth I and James I of England, was chronically short of funds and was briefly imprisoned for debt in Ludgate ?

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The article says that Hilliard painted what is believed to be the first known self-portrait. Although a reference is linked to the name of the book in which this is found, I would like to know the evidence for this. The article on portraits speaks of Fouquet (15th century) as having painted a self-portrait, describing Hilliard's only as "one of the earliest known." There are also self-portraits earlier than Hilliard's as seen and/or mentioned in articles such as Perugino, Dürer and Titian, among others. InvisibleSun, 9/1/05

self portrait[edit]

You don't think he did the one of himself ae 13 in 1550???? WB2 00:50, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Man among flames[edit]

I've removed the very lovely "Man among flames" as Strong 1983:109 describes how the attribution moved from Oliver to Hilliard & back to Oliver, which he says was confirmed by technical examination. But the V&A website says Hilliard (rather an odd entry - what calligraphy?). Unless anyone knows differently, I think this is just a mistake. The image is grossly stretched in the vertical dimension btw.Johnbod (talk) 21:14, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hungarian article on same artist is 10 Millionth[edit]

Those ten million articles have been written across 250 different languages. English is still the most popular language on Wikipedia, with 2.3 million articles (they reached 2 million English articles in September 2007). After English, the next most popular languages are German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. -says anon editor - moved from the article. Johnbod (talk) 17:11, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

the press release GameKeeper (talk) 17:36, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More specifically, the Hungarian article on Nicholas Hilliard was the ten millionth article on Wikipedia. Congratulations on a job well done, Wikipedia editors! --pie4all88 (talk) 18:51, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I did wonder! Johnbod (talk) 18:55, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, it's only the Hungarian article that receives this honour. The English article was created at 11:41, January 15, 2005, and likely was somewhere in the 1.7 million total article range. -- Zanimum (talk) 20:01, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully the 20 millionth article will be some hilarious Internet meme or some really awesome fetish porn. Wîckérpédïå édïtø(r) (talk) 15:32, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure that Nicholas Hilliard Article was 9,999,999 or something, and that the 10 millionth is something of that kind. 76.69.173.86 (talk) 16:42, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Are you extrapolating from the current English/total ratio of 2.3 million out of 10 million for that guess? :p John Riemann Soong (talk) 22:03, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Szerencsekívánat! Congratulations! Glückwünsche! Félicitations! поздравления! 恭喜！ 축하합니다! Congratulações! ¡Felicitaciones! To the Hungarian Wikipedia, as well as to Wikimedia as a whole. --Shruti14 ^{t c s} 20:54, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I'm aware, this article was indeed officially the 10 millionth, no fudging around. I believe the office had our tech people monitoring it, unlike previous milestones. -- Zanimum (talk) 14:24, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Footnotes etc[edit]

I've tidied the references, and removed the 1911 Britannica marker - there are only two paragraphs of 1911 text left, and they're now both footnoted and have a comment in the text next to them to credir their author. I've created one additional reference, for Roy Strong (1969), English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture - I think this is the correct edition, but if not please correct. The note in the text didn't specify.

The two ambiguous footnotes remaining are #17 (which just gives "Strong op. cit" - 1975, perhaps?) and #27, with no page numbers. If someone with the books could check on these, that'd be great!

Otherwise, a pretty good article - well done! Shimgray | talk | 13:47, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Yes, that's the correct (only) edition of the The English Icon. I'll see of I can sort out the op. cit - Johnbod and I seem to have different (but overlapping) volumes by Strong in our libraries. - PKM (talk) 19:49, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

References fixed. - PKM (talk) 20:10, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mystery gbook[edit]

What is this generous but malformed google books item? Does anybody know? [2] Published by Taylor & Francis, but no date (after 1958). Johnbod (talk) 02:53, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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