j;o Stafe of Painting frotn the Reign of 



ab Eyck. We mufl leave therefore in the 

 dark what we find irrecoverably fo. 



Two of the artiils employed on the tomb 

 of Richard are recorded by Stowe. That 

 prince had prepared it for himielf and his 

 queen. B. and Godfrey of Woodftreet, gold- 

 fmiths, made the moulds and caft the images 

 of the king and queen [ftill extant in the 

 abbey] ^' the charges of gilding of them coft 

 *' 400 marks *.'* 



The next pi6bure of the fame age is a 

 portrait of John of Gaunt painted on glafs, 

 with other portraits of tliat tinie> in. the 

 college of All Souls at Oxford 



His fon Henry IV. is extant, as I have 

 faid, at Hampton-court in Herefordfhire, 

 formerly his f palace : a copy or duplicate 

 of this piece is at Kenfington. In a book 

 Galled Studio di Pittura, Scoltura, &c. di 

 Filippo Tito, is a coin of Charles VI. of 

 France with exadly the fame extraordinary 

 head drefs, as was worn by this king. 



Vertue met with a fine illuminated MS. 



* Annals p. 342. 



t This is the common report. Others fay that 

 Hampton-court was built by Sir John Lenthall, from 

 the profit of fpoils taken in the French war under Hen- 

 ry V. confe<iuently Henry IV. could not have lived 



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