Anecdotes of PAINTING, &c. 



CHAP. III. 



Ccntinuation of the State of Painting to the 

 End of Henry VII. 



WHETHER it was owing to the 

 confufions of his reign, or to his 

 being born with little propenfity to the arts, 

 we find but fmall traces of their having 

 flourifhed under Edward IV. Brave, afpir- 

 ing and beautiful, his early age was wafted 

 on every kind of conqueft ; as he grew 

 older, he becanne arbitrary and cruel, not 

 lefs voluptuous nor even ;]: more refined in 

 his pleafures. His pidture on board, ftifF 

 and poorly painted, is preferved at Kenfing- 

 ton — the whole length of him at St. James's 

 in a night-gown and black cap was drawn 

 many years after his death by Belcomp, of 

 whom an account will be given hereafter. 



X His device, a falcon ^nd fetter-lock, with a quib- 

 bling motto in French, had not even delicacy to excufe 

 the witticifm. 



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