LOVE'S MEINIE 



' ' n etoit tout couvert d'oisiaulx. " 



EoMAijCE OP THE Rose. 



LECTUEE I. 



THE EOBESr. 



1. Among the more splendid pictures m the Exhibition of 

 the Old Masters, this year, yon cannot but remember the 

 Yandyke portraits of the two sons of the Duke of Lennox. 

 I think you cannot but remember it, because it would be 

 difficult to find, even among the works of Vandyke, a 

 more striking representation of the youth of our English 

 noblesse ; nor one in which the painter had more exerted, 

 himself, or with better success, in rendering the decorous 

 pride and natural grace of honourable aristocracy, 



Yandyke is, however, inferior to Titian and Yelasquez, 

 in that his effort to show this noblesse of air and persons 

 may always be detected ; also the aristocracy of Yan- I 

 dyke's day were already so far fearful of their own posi- 

 tion as to feel anxiety that it should be immediatel}' rec- 

 ognized. And the effect of the painter's conscious defer- 



