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No. 53. THE BRIER A PORTRAIT (plate xn). 



A portrait by Simeon Briera, and engraved by Antonio Camercero in 1764, is evi 

 dently a copy of that just described, except that a globe has been introduced. 



No. 54. THE BAINBRIDGE PORTRAIT (page 233). 



An interesting old picture is owned by Mr. R. Somers Hayes, No. 39 West Thirty- 

 eighth street, New York City. It is said to have been painted by one Cortez, a pupil 

 of the famous Velasquez. It resembles the Cladera portrait, and is painted on a 

 cedar panel. It belonged to an old Valencia family. Bernard Henry, who was consul 

 of the United States at Gibraltar in 1804, married into the family, and obtained the 

 picture by inheritance. He presented it to Commodore Bainbridge, of the United 

 States Navy, from whom it was inherited by his grandson, Mr. Hayes. 



No. 55. THE MUNOZ PORTRAIT. 



In his celebrated Historia del Nuevo Mundo (Madrid, 1793), in which were pre 

 sented for the first time many important documents from the archives of Spain 

 that relate to the discovery, Dr. Juan B. Munoz presents a portrait of Columbus, 

 with a beard, armor, and ruff of the seventeenth 

 century, which, like many others, bears no resem 

 blance to the traditional or printed descriptions of 

 his person. It was painted by Mariano Maella, 

 probably a hundred years after the death of Colum 

 bus, and is considered simply a fancy. The original 

 is in the collection of the present Duke of Veragua, 

 the descendant of Columbus, and a copy hangs in 

 the archives of the Indies at Seville. Another copy 

 was presented to the Philadelphia Academy of 

 Arts by R. W. Meade in 1818, but disappeared some 

 years later, and can not be traced. Delaplaine used 

 it as the frontispiece of his Gallery of Distinguished 

 Americans, published in Philadelphia in 1814. 



No. 56. THE HERRERA ENGRAVING (plate xm). 



One of the standard works on early American 

 history is Herrera s Historia General de los Hechos, 

 published at Madrid in 1601, and familiarly known 

 as Herrera s Decades. In the later editions appears 



a portrait of Columbus, which resembles in many respects that which Munoz adopted 

 some years after, except that the face is turned in the opposite direction. It was 

 accepted and copied by William Cullen Bryant and Sidney Howard Gay as a 

 frontispiece to their History of America, but it does not recall the appearance of 

 Columbus as described by his son and other associates. It was also used to illus 

 trate Grove s Life of Cardinal Wolsey, London, 1742. 



No. 57. COLUMBUS IN CHAINS (page 234). 

 No. 58. THE BORGHESE PICTURE (page 235). 



A portrait in the Borghese Gallery, at Rome, which is catalogued as one of Colum 

 bus, and is said to have been painted in 1519, is believed by critics to be a portrayal 

 ot the Saviours face by some early but unknown artist. According to Carderera it 

 was painted for Prince Alobrandine, and for a century adorned his magnificent 



palace. 



No. 59. COLUMBUS AND HIS SONS (page 236). 



Mr. William Cunningham, of London, England, has kindly loaned a vigorous por 

 trait of Columbus and his sons, which formerly belonged to Edward Home, of Bevis 

 Mount, near Southampton, and was sold by him to William Thompson, consul of 

 the United States at the latter city for many years. Its origin and age are unknown, 

 but it was engraved and published as early as 1794. 



THE FLAMENG. 

 See page 238. 



