22 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1635. 



bably between 1621 and 1626, the latter between 1628 

 and 1635. 



The portrait of Lady Herbert, three-quarter size, is to be 

 seen in the dining-room at Badminton House. It displays 

 an intellectual countenance of a serious, dignified and 

 most pleasing cast ; her dark auburn hair is combed close 

 from the forehead backwards, but so as still to leave a 

 fringe of small curls in front; her hair braided and 

 knotted behind is entwined with a string of pearls, while 

 a portion of her tresses from behind falls in abundant 

 ringlets about her neck and shoulders. She wears a 

 large plain pearl necklace ; with single pearl-drops as 

 ear-rings. Her dress is low-bodied, of white satin, with 

 the usual long tight stomacher, full short sleeves and 

 large white vandyked frills or cuffs ; on her arms, near 

 each elbow, are single strings of pearls, like bracelets. 

 Over her shoulders is thrown a light narrow fur tippet 

 with long ends terminating backwards in short tails. 

 The artist has represented her looking slightly aside as 

 she might appear crossing her drawing-room, in the 

 highly^ graceful and becoming style which Vandyck 

 always so happily selected for the subjects of his magic 

 pencil. 



This may have been the period to which his Lordship 

 later in life fondly looked back as his &quot; golden days.&quot; 

 He was, however, doomed to suffer his first great 

 bereavement in the decease of his young wife at Wor 

 cester House in the Strand, on Sunday the 31st of May, 

 1635. She was buried at St. Cadocus, the parish 

 church of Eaglan, within the family vault beneath the 

 Beaufort Chapel. He was thus left a widower with the 

 charge of his son and heir not above six years of age, 

 and two daughters. 



A singular error, as to the date, occurring in all 

 genealogies and biographical accounts that mention the 



