Newly discovered portrait may depict 'fair youth' of Shakespeare's sonnets
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…