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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



THE CEVASCO. 

 See page 227. 



A copy of this portrait, by M. Hernandez, was secured by Gen. Lucius Fairchild 

 when minister to Spain, and presented to the Historical Society of Wisconsin. 



It hangs in the capitol at Madison. There is also a 

 copy in the collection of Dr. E. M. Hale, at Chicago. 



No. 7. THE MARINE PORTRAIT. ORIGINAL IN THE 

 MARINE MUSEUM, MADRID (plate in). 



This is one of the most widely known and generally 

 accepted portraits of Columbus, and has been used 

 more than any other to illustrate biographies and 

 volumes of history. It is given a conspicuous place in 

 the Marine Museum at Madrid, and has been asserted 

 to be a genuine portrait, painted in 1504 or 1505, at 

 Seville, upon the return of Columbus from his fourth 

 and last voyage, and shortly before his death. There 

 is no testimony to sustain this claim, but there is 

 very good evidence that it was painted during the 

 present century, at the order of the ministry of marine, 

 and that the artist used the Capriolo engraving as his 

 model, taking the liberty to add age and signs of anxiety to the face of the Admiral. 

 A good copy was presented to Colby University, Maine, by the Honorable Han 

 nibal Hamlin, while minister to Spain. It resembles the Caprioli very closely, 

 except that the face is turned to the right instead of the left. 



No. 8. THE RINCON PORTRAIT (plate iv). 



A portrait of Columbus which hangs in the private library 



of the Queen of Spa u in the palace at Madrid is said to have 



been painted by Antonio del Riucou, upon the return of Colum 

 bus from his second voyage, although in the long list of the 



works of this famous artist there is no mention of this picture. 



Rincon was the founder of the Spanish school of portrait 



painting. He was made painter in ordinary to the court of 



Ferdinand and Isabella, who decorated him with the Order of 



Santiago in 1500. He was born at Guadalajara in 1446, and 



was therefore contemporary with Columbus. At the time of 



the latter s return from his first voyage, Rincou was engaged, under the orders of 



Cardinal Ximenes, in decorating the University of Alcala, and had every opportunity 



to paint his portrait had he desired to do so. He 

 doubtless witnessed the triumphal reception of 

 Columbus, and Sir William Stirling Maxwell, in his 

 Annals of the Artists of Spain, says &quot;he mingled 

 with the great navigator in the courtly throngs of the 

 presence chamber of Isabella.&quot; 



No. 9. THE COGOLETO PORTRAIT (page 222). 



Cogoleto is a small town 15 miles from Genoa, which 

 claims the honor of being the birthplace of Columbus. 

 An old house on one of the principal streets bears a 

 tablet to commemorate the fact, and visitors are shown 

 the room in which the eyes that discovered America 

 first opened to the light of day. The portrait, which 

 bears 110 date or signature, hangs in the town hall. 

 Its history can be traced back three centuries, and it, 

 too, is asserted to be the original of the Giovian collection. The portrait bears a 

 similar inscription to that of Dr. di Orchi at Como: &quot; Christoforus Columbus novi 

 orbis repertor,&quot; but the artist is unknown. 



THE BOSSI. 

 See page 227. 



THE ARAMBURU. 

 See page 227. 



