Anecdotes of PAINTING, &c. 



CHAP. II. 



Staieof Painting from the Reign ^/ Henry III. 

 to the End of Henry VI. 



FROM the reign of Henry III. Mr. 

 Vertue could difcover no records re- 

 lating to the arts for feveral reigns. I fhall 

 endeavour to fill this hiatus by producing 

 an almofl entire chronologic feries of paint- 

 Tngs from that time to Henry VII. when 

 Mr. Vertue's notes recommence. 



During the reigns of the two firft Ed- 

 wards, I find no veftiges * of the art, 

 though it was certainly preferved here, at 

 leaft by painting on glafs. No wonder 

 that a proud, a warlike, and ignorant no- 

 bility, encouraged only that branch which 

 attefled their dignit)^ Their dungeons were 



* Except that in the reign of Edward I. Bifhop 

 Langton built a palace and hall at Litchfield, in which 

 was painted the ceremony of the coronation, &c. Brown 

 Willis's Cath. vol. i. p. 17, 



rendered 



