Painting to the End of Henry VII. 85 



merly a famous collector in Holland, had 

 another of them. It was brought over as a 

 pi6ture of Raphael in his firft manner, in the 

 time of Vertue, who by the exa6b defcrip- 

 tion of it in Vermander difcovered it to be 

 of Mabufe. It was fold however for a con- 

 fiderable price. * In a MS. catalogue of the 

 colleflion of King Charles I. taken in the 

 year 1649, and containing fome pidlurcs 

 that are not in the printed lift, I find men- 

 tion made of an old man's head by Ma- 

 bufe ; Sir Peter Lely had the ftory of Her- 

 cules and Deianira by him. f The only J 

 work befides that 1 know of this mafter in 

 England, is a celebrated pidure in my pof- 

 feffion. It was bought for 200 /. by Hen- 

 rietta Louifa Countefs of Pomfret, and hung 

 for fome years at their feat at Eafton Nefton 

 in Northamptonlhire, whence it was fold af- 

 ter the late earl's death. The earl of Oxford 

 once offered 500/. for it. § It is painted 



♦ It is now at the Grange in Hampfhire, the feat of 

 the lord chancellor Henley. 



t See catalogue of his colleftion, p. 48. N'^. 99. 



X I have fince bought a fmall one of Chrift crowned 

 with thorns by him, with his name Malbodius, on it ; 

 and Mr. Rafpe mentions another at Rochefter : EfTay 

 . on oil painting, p. 56. 



§ I gave eighty*four pounds. 



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