60 Heredity. 



His three nephews, all distinguished scholars ; one of them was 

 senior classic at Cambridge in 1830. 



III. PAINTERS. 



A glance at any history of painting, or a visit to a few museums, 

 will show that families of painters are not rare. In England you 

 have the Landseers ; in France the Bonheurs. Every one has 

 heard of the Bellinis, Caraccios, Teniers, Van Ostades, Mieris, 

 Van der Veldes. In a list of forty-two painters Italian, Spanish, 

 and Flemish held to be of the highest rank, Galton found 

 twenty-one that had illustrious relatives. 



LIST OF PAINTERS. 



BASSANO, BELLINI, Buonarotti (Michael Angelo), CAGLIARI (Paul 

 Veronese), CARACCI, Ludovico,andAnnibale; Cimabue, CORREGGIO, 

 Domenichino, Francia, GELEE (Claude Lqrrain), Giorgione, Giotto, 

 Guido Reni, PARMEGIANO, Perugino, .Sebastian del Piombo, 

 Poussin, ROBUSTI (Tintoretto), Salvator Rosa, RAFAEL, Titian, 

 Leonardo da Vinci. 



MURILLO, Ribeira, Spagnoletto, Velasquez, Gerard Douw, A. 

 Durer, the two VAN EYCKS, Holbein, MIERIS, VAN OSTADE, 

 POTTER, Rembrandt, Rubens, RUYSDAEL, TENIERS, VAN 

 DYCK, VAN DER VELDE. 

 BASSANO, Giacomo da Ponte (1510 1592), the greatest of his 



family ; 

 His father, Francisco, founder of the school which ' bore his 



name; 



His four sons, Francisco, Giovanni, Leandro, Girolamo, all 

 distinguished painters. Francesco, who was of a melancholy 

 temperament, committed suicide at the age of 49. 

 BELLINI, Giovanni, Venetian, was one of the first who painted 



in oils ; 



His fattier , Jacopo, a celebrated portrait-painter. 

 His brother^ Gentile, one of the favourites of the Venetian 



senate. 

 CAGLIARI (Paul Veronese) ; 



His father, Gabriele, was a sculptor; 



His maternal uncle, Antonio, was one of the earliest among the 

 Venetian painters who abandoned the Gothic style ; 



