Laurence Hilliard (1582 - 1648)    

• Was an English miniature painter.

• Hilliard, a son of Nicholas Hilliard and his wife Alice Brandon, was christened on 5 March 1582.
• Hilliard adopted his father's profession and worked out the unexpired time of his licence after Nicholas Hilliard died in 1619.
• It was from Lawrence Hilliard that Charles I received the portrait of Queen Elizabeth now at The British Museum. 

• In 1624 he was paid £42 from the treasury for five pictures, but the warrant does not specify whom they represented.

• His portraits are rare, two of the most beautiful being those in the collections of Earl Beauchamp and Mr J Pierpont Morgan.
• They are as a rule signed L.H.
• He was married on 4 December 1611 to Jane (Cullymore) Farmer of St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside.
• They settled in at the parish of St Bride Fleet Street, London.
• His will, dated 21 February 1641 and "seven years almost to the day", he was buried in the St Bride's Church on 23 February 1648.
• He was survived by his four children: Brandon, Thomas, Charles, and his daughter Laurence who used to refer to herself as Laurentia Hilliard. 

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