Isaac Oliver

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Isaac Oliver

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Also known as: Isaac Olivier

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Oliver also spelled:: Olivier

Born:: 1556?, Rouen, France

Died:: October 2, 1617, London, England

Also Known As:: Isaac Olivier

Movement / Style:: Jacobean age

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Isaac Oliver (born 1556?, Rouen, France—died October 2, 1617, London, England) was a miniature painter.

Oliver, Isaac: miniature of Dudley North, 3rd Baron North — Oliver, Isaac: miniature of Dudley North, 3rd Baron NorthMiniature of Dudley North, 3rd Baron North, gouache and gold on vellum laid onto card by Isaac Oliver, c. 1609; in the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

Oliver’s French Huguenot parents took him to England about 1568, where he studied painting and married the daughter of a then well-known portrait painter, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder. Oliver soon won renown and royal patronage for his miniatures, including portraits and religious and classical scenes. His son Peter was his student and carried on his father’s later style.

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