RELICS LEFT BY PHILIP AND JOAN OF CASTILE. 3 



have come down to their present possessors in an unbroken 

 line from Sir Thomas Trenchard through John Trenchard, 

 of Newton House, Sturminster Marshall, Poxwell, and 

 Ringstead, Dorset, by whom they were left, or the greater 

 part of them, including the Portraits and Chinese Bowls, to 

 the late John Trenchard Trenchard, of Poxwell and Ringstead, 

 and Greenhill House, Wey mouth. 



The relics above alluded to and which I propose to describe 

 and figure are i., Portraits of the King Philip and Queen 

 Joanna ; ii., Two Chinese Oriental Porcelain Bowls ; 

 iii., Two Massive Iron Chests ; and iv., One Large Cedar 

 Chest. 



The Portraits measure 19 J inches square to the outside of 

 the frames. Engravings were made from them in 1801 by an 

 eminent portrait painter and engraver (C. Bestland) at the 

 instance of John Trenchard of Newton House, Sturminster 

 Marshall, and were intended, as I have understood, to 

 illustrate the account in Hutchins' History of Dorset of their 

 Majesties' visit to Wolfeton. Much, and in some respects 

 unfavourable, criticism has been made by some members of 

 the family in regard to the rendering of the portraits by 

 Bestland, and it is believed that their rendering in the present 

 paper, from the good photographs now exhibited, is more 

 accurate and a manifest improvement. As to the artistic 

 value of the portraits I am not qualified to speak. The 

 ornament round the King's neck represents the English 

 Order of the Garter, conferred upon him by King Henry the 

 VII., and was worn by Philip, when the portrait was painted, 

 in compliment to Sir Thomas Trenchard. The portraits were 

 most certainly, as Bestland remarks, painted at the time of 

 the King and Queen's visit to Wolfeton, and expressly for 

 the purpose of showing their Majesties' deep sense of gratitude 

 and approval of the treatment shewn them by Sir Thomas 

 Trenchard while at Wolfeton. I am not sure that anything 

 is known as to the artist by whom these portraits were 

 painted, but presumably it must have been by some Spanish 

 painter. 



