TGS Cain Editor

Nicholas Hilliard, the first major painter whose name we know, painted the minature portraits from which we recognise many of the people of the court of Elizabeth I. His technique 'limning' which utilised water-based pigments, was considered among the highest pictorial arts. T.G.S. Cain is the head of the School of ENglish at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and a specialist in the early seventeenth-century period.