Painting to the End of Henry VII. 79 



in the life of that painter — but of this per- 

 fon whoever he was, arc probably fome an- 

 cient limnings * in a cabinet at Kenfing- 

 ton, drawn before the great mailer of that 

 name could have arrived here. Among 

 them is the portrait of Henry VII. from 

 whence Vertue engraved his print. The 

 other painter had merit enough to deferve a 

 particular article j He was called 



JOHN MABUSE or xMABEUGIUS, 



and was born at a little town of the fame 

 name in Hainault f, but in what year is 

 uncertain, as is the year J of his death. He 

 had the two defeds of his cotemporary 

 countrymen, ftifFnefs in his manner, and 



* Two miniatures of Henry VII. each in a black 

 cap, and one of them with a rofe in his hand are men- 

 tioned in a MS. in the Harleian colledion. 



f Le Compt fays it was in Hungary. 



X Le Compt and Defcamps fay it was In 1562; a 

 print of him, publiihed by Galle, fays " Fuit Hanno 

 patria Malbodienfis ; obiit Antwerpiae anno 1532, in 

 cathedrali acde fepultus ;'* but Vertue thouglit part of 

 this infcription was added to the plate many years after 

 the firfl publication ; and Sandrart whom I follow, fay5 

 cxprefsly that he could not difcover when Mabufe died. 

 Vertue conje(^ured, that he lived to the age of fifty-two. 



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