Portrait miniature makes £200,000
This portrait miniature of a 30-year-old lady by Nicholas Hilliard, dated 1582, set a new auction record for the artist at Sotheby’s Olympia rooms on June 6 when it sold to a private collector bidding on the phone against the room for £200,000 (plus premium).
It surpasses the £160,000 paid at Christie’s in 1993 for the artist’s portrait of a man clasping a h…