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ful investigator of the liistoriaH's materials. Had 

 Harriot lived in Pope's days, I fear that fifty 

 " Letters from a friend of his " would not have 

 saved him from infamy ; and " Darty and his ham 

 pie," an allusion in some obscure pamphlet, might 

 only have remained to puzzle Mr. J. B. Nichols 

 or his commentators. W. Moy Thomas. 



In the lasrt edition of Granger's Biographical 

 History, four portraits of Harriot are mentioned 

 with a brief notice of him taken from the follow- 

 ing, which is contained in Caulfield's Remarkable 

 Persons, vol. iii. p. 225. : 



" Marriot was a lawyer of Gray's Inn, wlio piqued him- 

 self upon the hrut.il qualifications of a voracious appetite, 

 and a powerful digestive faculty, and deserves to be 

 placed no higher in the scale of beings than a cormorant 

 or an ostricli. H^e increased his natural capacity for food 

 by art and application ; and had as much vanity in eating 

 to excess, as any monk had in starving himself^ See two 

 copies of verses upon him among the works of Charles 

 Cotton, Esq. Great eaters are common in all ages, but 

 the greatest eater on record is described by Ta3dor the 

 water-poet, in his works, under the title of ' The Great 

 Eater, or Part of the admirable Teeth and Stomach Ex- 

 ploits of Nicholas Wood, of Harrisom, in the County of 

 Kent ; his excessive manner of eating without Manners, 

 in strange and true Manner described, by Joha Tailor."— 

 Works, edit. 1G30, page 142. 



John I. Deedge. 



COOPEES POETEAIT OP CROMWELL. 



(P* S. xii. 205., &c.) 



I beg to subjoin a few extracts and remarks 

 relating to Samuel Cooper's miniature of Crom- 

 well, and other relevant matters ; which may not 

 be devoid of interest to your correspondent Ces- 

 TRiENsis, and perhaps enable him to infer the pre- 

 sent locus in quo of one or more of the portraits 

 of which he is in search. I transcribe the fol- 

 lowing passage from a well-compiled book of 

 anecdote : 



" Robert "Walker, a portrait pointer, contemporary 

 with Vandyke, was most remarkable for being the prin- 

 cipal painter employed by Cromwell, whose picture he 

 drew more than once. One of those portraits represented 

 him with a gold chain about his neck, to which was ap- 

 pended a gold medal with three crowns, the arms of 

 Sweden and a pearl, sent to him by Christina in return 

 for his picture by Cooper, on which Milton wrote a Latin 

 Epigram. This head by Walker is in possession of 

 Lord Mountford at Horseth, in Cambridgeshire, and Was 

 given to a former lord by Mr. Commissary Greaves, who 

 found it in an inn in that county. Another piece con- 

 tained Cromwell and Lambert together ; this was in Lord 

 Bradford's collection. A third was purchased for the 

 great Uuke, whose agent having orders to procure one. 

 and meeting with this in the hands of a female relation 

 of the Protector, offered to purchase it ; but being refused, 

 and continuing his solicitation, to put him off, she asked 

 500/., and was paid it." — The Arts and Artists, §-c., by 

 James Elmes, vol. i. p. 41. 



Mr. Sarsfield Taylor, in his Origin, Progress, 



Spc, of the Fine Arts in Great Britain and Ire- 

 land (2 vols. 8vo., 1841), omits to mention Cooper, 

 but speaks of Walker as being tie principal artist 

 during the Protectorate : 



" He became eventually Cromwell's chief artist, and 

 painted his portrait several times. Cromwell made pre- 

 sents of these heads : one was sent to Christina, Queen of 

 Sweden, in return for a gold chain and medal sent to 

 Oliver by that extraordinary woman; others he gave to 

 Col. Cooke, to Speaker Lenthall, &c. Walker was a 

 clever portrait painter, with original feeling ; his colour- 

 ing was verj' good, and his peacil, though free, was 

 careful." — v ol. i. p. 352. 



Walpole, speaking of Cooper's portrait, appa- 

 rently from actual observation, says : 



" This fine head is in the possession of Lady Frankland, 

 widow of Sir Thomas, a descendant of Cromwell. The 

 bod}' is unfinished. Vertue engraved it, as he did an- 

 other in profile, in the collection of the Duke of Devon- 

 shire." — Anec. of Painting; Straw. Hill edit, vol. iii. p. 61. 



Cooper was a miniature painter, and probably 

 painted more than one head of the Protector. I 

 think it probable that it was one of these, rather 

 than a portrait by Walker, which was transmitted 

 to Christina, not only on account of its greater 

 portability and fitness for a present, but because 

 Cooper himself (according to some, or his elder 

 brother Alexander, according to Barry, — see his 

 edition of Pilkington's Dictionary, 4to., 1798), had 

 at one time held the appointment of miniature 

 painter to Christina. 



Cooper also painted a portrait of Milton ; and 

 this, Bryan informs us, was recently discovered, 

 and is now in the possession of the Duke of Buc- 

 cleugh. 



For this portrait of Cromwell, Cooper was 

 offered 150/. by the French king ; which offer he 

 refused (Cunningham's Pilkington). 



Voltaire spealts of the transmission of a por- 

 trait to Christina ; without, however, mentioning 

 the name of the artist. In an article on Crom- 

 well, in the Diet. Philosophique, he says : 



" Lorsqu'il eut outrage tous les rois en fesant couper 

 la tete h son roi legitime, et qu'il commeQ<;a lui-meme k 

 regner, il envoya son portrait h une tete couronnee; 

 c'etait^^ la reine de Suede, Christine. Marvell, fameux 

 poete anglais, qui fesait fort bien des vers latins, aceom- 

 pagn|fcce portrait de six vers ou il fait parler Cromwell 

 lui-meme. Cromwell corrigea les deux derniers, qui 

 voici : 



" ' At tibi submittit frontem reverentior umbra, 

 Non sunt hi vultus, regibus usque truces.' 



" Le sens hardi de ce six vers peut se rendre ainsi : — 



" * Les armes a la main j'ai defendu les lois; 

 D'un peuple audacieux j'ai venge la querelle. 

 Regardez sans fremir cette image fidfele ; 

 Mon front n'est pas toujours Tepouvante des rois.' " 



It will be observed that Voltaire ascribes this 

 epigram to Marvell. Newton and Birch attri- 

 bute it to Milton ; but Dr. Warton, in his edition 

 of Milton's Minor Poems (8vo., London, 1791, 

 which only wa»t8 an index to render it one of the 



