Earl of Southampton may have given writer the miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, which has defaced heart on its reverse The discovery of a previously unknown portrait miniature by one of Elizabethan England's greatest artists would be significant enough. But a work by Nicholas Hilliard that has come to light is all the more exciting because it has a possible link to William Shakespeare, and a 400-year-old enigma of a de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PM on September 5, 2025