Painters in the ReigJt of H^nry VIII. 95 



called the confefTionary near the chapel at 

 Hampton-court, Vertue found feveral fcrip- 

 ture (lories painted on wainfcot, particu- 

 larly the pafTion. He and Sir James Thorn- 

 hill agreed that they were much in the 

 ftyle of Raphael, particularly the fmall 

 figures and landfcapes in the perfpediive, 

 and not at all in the German tafte. Thefe 

 Vertue concluded to be of Luca Penni. 



To fome of thefe painters Vertue afcribes, 

 with great probability, the battle of the 

 fpurs, die triumphs of the valley of cloth 

 of gold, and the expedition * to Boulogne, 

 three curious pi<5lures now at Windfor ; f 

 commonly fuppofed by Holbein, but not 

 only beneath his excellence, but painted 

 (at leaft two of them) if painted as in all 

 likelyhood they were on the feveral occa- 

 fions, before the arrival of that great maf- 

 ter in England* 



* It 16 not very furprlzing, that a prince of Seemingly 

 fo martial a difpofition ftiould make fo little figure in 

 the roll of conquerors, when we obferve by this pidure 

 that the magnificence of his armament engaged fo much 

 of his attention. His fhips are as fumptuous as Cleo- 

 patra*s gaily on the Cydnus. 



f This bad judgment was made even by Mr. Evelyn 

 in his difcourfe on medals, 



Of 



