Painters in the Reign of Henry VIII. 99 



Another ferjeant-painter in this reign was 

 John Brown, * who if he threw no great 

 luftre on his profeflion, was at leaft a bene- 

 fador to its profeflbrs. In the 24th of 

 Henry he built painter*s hall for the com- 

 pany, f where his portrait is (till preferved 

 among other piftures given by perfons of 

 the fociety. Their firil charter in which 

 they are ftyled Peyntours, was granted in 



great deal of the manner of Holbein, certainly not in- 

 ferior to it, but are rather more free and bold. Fre- 

 deric, the wife, Duke of Saxony, died in 1525, about a 

 year before Holbein came to England, but the Arch- 

 duke Philip died when Holbein was not above eight 

 years of age : Holbein might have drawn this Prince 

 from another pidure, as a fmall one of him when a boy, 

 in my pofleffion, has all the appearance of Holbein's 

 hand. Whoever painted the pidures at Oxford, they 

 are two capital portraits. 



* His arms were, argent, on a fefs counter-embat- 

 teled, fable, three efcallops of the firfl ; on a canton, 

 quarterly gules and azure, a leopard's head cabolh- 

 ed, or. 



f Camden, whofe father was a painter in the Old- 

 Bailey, gave a filver cup and cover to the company of 

 Painter- Stainers, which they ufe on St. Luke's day at 

 their eledion, the old mafter drinking out of it to his 

 fucceflbr eledt. Upon this cup is the following infcrip- 

 tion ; Gul. Camdenus Clarenceux, filius Samfonis, picf 

 toris Londinenfis, dedit. Maitland, 



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