Nicholas Lanier
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Nicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere was an English composer and musician; the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music from 1625 to 1666, an honour given to musicians of great distinction.
Nicholas Lanier
Nicholas Lanier, painting by van Dyck, 1632, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Nicholas Lanier 1613, unknown painter, sold at Christies.
Portrait of the artist, William Dobson, with Nicholas Lanier (left) and Sir Charles Cotterell (right), c 1645.
Emilia Lanier
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Emilia Lanier was an English writer and poet during the Elizabethan period. Her 1611 volume Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum has been seen as protofeminist. She has a claim to be one of the first women poets
Nicholas Lanier
…musicians, the Lanière family, who were Huguenots, and was baptised at Greenwich. His father and grandfather left France to escape persecutions. His aunt, Emilia Bassano, was the daughter of Venetian musicians at the Tudor court and, before her marriage to Alfonso Lanier, had been the mistress to the Lord Chamberlain…
Portrait by Nicholas Hilliard, suggested to be Lanier
Hilliard Miniature, possibly Lanier
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The title page of Lanier's collection of poetry, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.