Henry III. to the End of Henry VI. 43 



mention the pidure at Wilton, the other 

 of Richard II. at Weflminfler, and an un- 

 doubted original of Henry IV. at Hamp- 

 ton-court in Herefordfhire, who died with- 

 in two years after John ab Eyck's difco- 

 very, muft be allowed to have been drawn 

 before the new art arrived here. The pic- 

 ture at Weftminfler has indeed been re- 

 painted *, therefore no conclufion can be 

 drawn from it. This queftion, eafy as I 

 thought it, I found had been pafTed over 

 without confideration, and though propof- 

 ed to a very learned f body of men, ar- 

 rived at no folution. After turning over 

 feveral books of painting, all treating of 

 John ab Eyck's invention, but without one 

 word of the method which his fecret dif- 

 poflefTed, I at lad found what I fought. 

 Sandrart put an end to the difficulty by 

 thefe words words : 



Quia autem metuebant ne muri fcifTuris 

 diffinderentur, hinc eofdem linteo, prius 



* By one Capt. Brome, a print-feller near the par- 

 liament houfe ; but this was after Mr. Talman had 

 taken his drawing from whence the print was en- 

 graved. 



t The fociety of Antiquaries, 



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