# Young Man among Roses [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HILLIARD, Nicholas]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Watercolour on vellum stuck onto card, 135 x 73 mm ## Commentary Young Man among Roses c. 1587 Watercolour on vellum stuck onto card, 135 x 73 mm Victoria and Albert Museum, London This portrait is perhaps the most famous of English miniatures. It epitomises the romantic Elizabethan age and is a masterpiece of miniature paintings by its greatest exponent, Nicholas Hilliard. It shows a young man, full length, oval, leaning against a tree among roses. Inscribed above the head is a Latin motto taken from Lucan's De Bello Civili: 'Dat / poenas laudata fides' \('a praised faith'\). The young man is possibly Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. \*\*\* Keywords: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Author: HILLIARD, Nicholas Title: Young Man among Roses Time-line: 1551-1600 School: English Form: graphics Type: portrait ## Related artworks - [Portrait Medal of Queen Elizabeth I]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() - [Portrait of Elizabeth I, Queen of England]() - [Portrait of George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland]() - [Queen Elizabeth I]() - [Queen Elizabeth I]() - [Queen Elizabeth]() - [Self-portrait, aged 30]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()