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human. It is an elderly man, * drefled like 

 a monk, except that his habit is green 5 

 his feet bare, and a fpear in his hand. As 

 the frock of no religious order ever was 

 green, this cannot be meant for a friar. 

 Probably it is St. Thomas, reprefented, as 

 in the martyrologies, with the inflrument 

 of his death. The queen might have fome 

 devotion to that peculiar faint, or might be 

 born or married on his feftival. Be that as 

 it may, the pidlure, though in a hard man- 

 ner, has it's merit, independent of the 

 tuHofity. 



John Schorel ftudied fome time under 

 Mabufe, but quitted him on account of his 

 irregularities, by which Schorel was once in 

 danger of his life. Paul Van Aelft excelled 

 in copying Mabufe's works, and John Mof- 

 tart aflifted the latter in his works at Mid- 

 dleburgh. 



In the library of St. John's college Cam- 



• This allegoric figure feems to agree with the 

 account of Defcamps mentioned above, and Mabufe 

 might have learned in Italy that the Romans always 

 reprefented their divine perfonages larger than the 

 human, as is evident from every model whereon are a 

 Genius and an Emperor. 



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