Queen Elizabeth's reign had a great impact on the development of arts and crafts in the late 1500s and early 1600s in England. He had a great passion for art, crafts and literature. This inspired several artists, playwrights, authors and architects to move their practice to England. Some authors include William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Wyatt. The architects include John Brayne, also including the famous artist Nicholas Hilliard. Art collection in England made this country very popular. Nicholas Hilliard was one of the few famous artists of the Elizabethan era. Nicholas was born to Richard Hilliard (an English goldsmith) and Laurence Wall. As a boy Hilliard became attached to the family of the leading Exeter Protestant John Bodley. John Bodley's father founded the Bodleian Library. John Boodle was exiled during the accession of Catholic Queen Mary I of England. On 8 May 1557 Hilliard, aged just ten, was recorded in Geneva as one of eleven members of the Bodley family in the Calvinist service overseen by John Knox. Hilliard did not have a fort ...