The reconstruction of the materials and techniques of Nicholas Hilliard’s portrait miniatures by Timea Tallian and Alan Derbyshire

Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset (1587-1645), favourite of James I, by Nicholas Hilliard, watercolour on vellum, c.1611 © National Portrait Gallery, London

An online paper from the V&A’s Conservation Journal (Autumn 2008, issue 56).