92 Painters in the Reign of Henry VII I. 



their names. Jerome di Trevifi * was both 

 his painter and engineer, and attending 

 him in the latter quality to the fiege of 

 Boulogne, was killed at the age of thirty- 

 fix, Joannes Corvus was a Fleming. Ver- 

 tue difcovered his name on the ancient 

 pidure of Fox bifhop of Winchefler, ftill 

 preferved at Oxford. It was painted in the 

 beginning of the reign of this king, after the 

 prelate had loft his fight. The painter's name 

 "Johannes Ccrviis Flandrus faciehat is on the 

 frame, which is of the fame age with the 

 pidure, and coloured in imitation of red 

 marble with veins of green f . 



Others of Henry's painters are recorded 

 in an office-book \ figned monthly by the 

 king himfelf, and containing payments of 

 wages, prefents, &:c. probably by the trea- 

 furer of the chambers Sir Brian Tukc. It 



♦ He is mentioned by Rldolphi in the lives of the 

 painters. Some (ketches of fieges at that time, probably 

 by his hand, are preferved in a book in the Cotton- 

 library. 



f Ther« are two or three pictures of the fame prelate 

 in the college, but this is probably the original ; is flat 

 and a poor performance. 



X It was in the coile(51ion of Mrs. Bridgman of Ha- 

 fiover-fquare. 



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