FRANXIS BARLOW 4 1 



sale a plate from another picture by Shepard was 

 sold ; this was a portrait of Mr. Henry Terne 

 which, according to Walpole's account, was after- 

 wards altered to represent the Duke of Monmouth ! 

 Shepard eventually retired to Yorkshire, where he 

 died. 



Pictures of birds and animals were Barlow's 

 speciality. Horace Walpole, in his Anecdotes of 

 Painters in England, says that altogether there 

 were published six books containing plates of birds 

 and beasts from drawings by this artist : one of 

 these was a series of folio plates entitled Nature 

 displayed in the Ani^iial and Feathered Species, 

 "being a collection of the capital studies of that 

 great Master Francis Barlow, in which are ex- 

 hibited a vast variety." Barlow's Birds and 

 Beasts was a collection of sixty-seven plates from 

 his chief works ; these represented various species 

 of wild and domestic birds and animals in character- 

 istic attitudes or situations ; several of these plates 

 were engraved by W. Hollar, and bear date 1664, 

 though the pictures in many instances had been 

 painted several years previously. Such is the case 

 in Barlow's "Turkeys," painted in 1654, an engrav- 

 ing from which by Hollar is here reproduced. The 

 work entitled Miiltce ct Diversce Avium Species, 

 published in the year 1658, contained eighteen 

 plates engraved by Hollar from his pictures. 



