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A c. 1575 CE portrait of Elizabeth I of England (r. 1588-1603 CE) known as the 'Phoenix Portrait'. The work is by Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) and is named after the pendant the queen wears hanging on her chest. The phoenix symbolizes regeneration...

A portrait by Nicholas Hilliard of Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618 CE), the English courtier, soldier, mariner, explorer and historian. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Henry III of France (r. 1574-1589), oil on canvas by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1576-78. Private Collection.

Portrait of an Elizabethan lady, thought to be Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich (1563-1607); sister to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and muse of the poet Sir Philip Sidney, who used her as inspiration for his sonnet sequence Astrophel and...

A portrait of an unknown woman, thought to be Emilia Lanier Bassano, English poet and perhaps the inspiration behind William Shakespeare's 'Dark Lady'. Watercolor on vellum, by Nicholas Hilliard, circa 1590. Victoria and Albert Museum, London...

The Palace of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia at Livadia, Yalta, Crimea, May 1918. The palace famously hosted the Yalta Conference of February 1945 where Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin discussed how to best end the...

Detail from an 1807 painting by Nicholas Pocock showing HMS Victory, once flagship of Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

Guests from Overseas, oil on canvas painting from the series Beginnings of the Rus by Nicholas Roerich, 1901. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

A depiction of the early phase of the Battle of the Nile (1-2 August 1798), oil on canvas by Nicholas Pocock, 1808. National Maritime Museum, London.

A 1907 oil on canvas painting by Ilya Repin (1844-1930) titled Demonstration on October 17, 1905. The work refers to the public reaction to the Russian Tsar's compromise of promised reforms, the October Manifesto, made in response to the...