Henry III. to' the End of Henry VI. 49 



Richard are ftill more uncertain than the 

 method in v/hich they painted. I can find 

 no names of artifts* at that period. Nor is 

 this extraordinary. In countries where the 

 fcience flourifhed more, our knowledge of 

 the profefTors is very imperfed. Though 

 Ciambue reftored .the art as early as 1250, 

 yet the number of his fuccelTors on record 

 is extremely fmall, 'till AntoncUo of Mef- 

 fina carried the fecret of painting in oil 

 into Italy \ and for Flanders, where it was 

 invented, the biographers of the maflers of 

 ihat country, as Carl Vermander, Sandrart, 

 &c. profefTedly begin their lifts with John 



of this curious piece was tranflated by George Carew 

 carl of Totnels 5 the tranflation was publiflied with ten 

 other trafts in a thin folio called Hibernica, by Walter 

 Harris; Dublin 1747. 



* Except of John Sutton a carver, who was employed 

 by Thomas Beauchamp earl of Warwick to alter a Ilatue 

 of the famous Guy earl of Warwick, Handing in the 

 choir of the church there, and to cut the arms of the an- 

 cient earls on it. It was from the fpoiis of this family 

 that Richard II. granted to his half brother Thomas duke 

 of Surrey a fait of arras wrought with the Hory of the 

 fame Guy. See Dugdale's Warwickfliire, p. 402, 431. 

 The city of London made prefents to Richard and his 

 queen, among other curiofities, of piiflures of the Tri- 

 nity valued at 800/. An enormous fum for that time! 

 See defcrip. cf Lond. and the environs, vol. iv, p. 30. 

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