Painting to the End of Henry VII. 75 



believe tradition) is ilill extant in the col- 

 iedlion of the countefs of Cardigan, and is 

 marveloufly beautiful, feeming to be pou- 

 dered with golden duft without prejudice 

 to its filken delicacy. The king himfelf, 

 with his queen, eldeft fon and others of his 

 court, are reprefented in a MS. in the li- 

 brary at Lambeth, from which an engrav- 

 ing was made, with an account of it, and 

 prefixed to the Catalogue of Royal and noble 

 Authors. It was purchafed of Peacham 

 by Sir Robert Cotton. Richard III. the 

 fucceflbr of thefe princes, appears in ano- 

 ther old pidlure at Kenfington. In the 

 princefs dowager's houfe at Kew in a cham- 

 ber of very ancient portraits, of which mod 

 are imaginary, is one very curious, as it is 

 probably an original, of the duke of Nor- 

 folk killed at the battle of Bofworth. 



arm did lie." The pifture at Eton is not To large, and 

 feems to have been drawn earlier than that Sir Thomas 

 faw ; it has not fo much as the rich mantle over one 

 ihoulder. There is another portrait of Jane Shore to 

 below the breafts, in the provoft's lodge at King*s col- 

 lege, Cambridge ; the body quite naked, the hair 

 drefled with jewels, and a necklace of maffive gold. It 

 is painted on board, and from the meanncfs of the exe- 

 cution feems to be original. 



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