5*3 State of Pautting from the Reign cf 



his marriage. There are eleven figures, of 

 which all the heads ^re well painted : the 

 draperies are hard and ftiff. The king 

 in rich robes, but with rude difhevelled 

 Jiair, as are all the men, {lands before the 

 portal of a magnificent church, giving his 

 hand to the queeii, who is far from being a 

 lovely bride, and whom the painter feems 

 fatirically to have infinuated by the promi- 

 nence of her waifl not to have been fo per- 

 fect a virgin as her flowing hair denotes. 

 Kemp archbifhop of York and afterwards 

 of Canterbury, and one of her chief coun- 

 fellors, is performing the marriage rites by 

 holding the pallium over their conjoined 

 hands. It is remarkable that the prelate 

 wears thin yellow gloves which are well re- 

 prefented. Behind the king in a robe of 

 ftate ftands the duke of Glocefter, ancj 

 feems reproving a nobleman -j-, whoni I take 

 for the marquis of Suffolk. Behind the 

 queen is a lady in a kind of turban or dia- 

 dem, probably defigned for her mother the 

 titular queen of Naples and Jerufalem. Be- 

 yond her, another in a v/idow's drefs, oppo- 



f He h33 a ha-.vk en V\?, fift, s mark of nobility in 

 •!d paicting?. 



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