Painters in the Reign of Henry VIII. loi . 



one of them ^^ that is, Lucas Cornelii 

 pinxit. They are a feries, in * fixteen pieces, 

 of the conftables of Queenborough caftle 

 from the reign of Edward III. to Sir Tho- 

 mas Cheyne knight of the garter in the 

 3d of Henry VIII. Though not all ori- 

 ginals, they undoubtedly are very valuable, 

 being in all probability painted from the 

 beft memorials then extant ; and fome of 

 them, reprefentations of remarkable per- 

 fons, of whom no other image remains. 

 Of thefe, the greateft curiofities are, Robert 

 de Vere, the^reat duke of Ireland, and 

 George, the unfortunate Duke of Clarence. 

 Harris, in his hiftory of Kent, + quotes an 

 itinerary by one Johnflon, who fays, that in 

 1629, he faw at the houfe of the minifter 

 of Gillingham, the portrait of Sir Edward 

 Hobby, die laft governor but one, who 

 had carefully afTembled all the portraits of 

 his predecefTors, and added liis own ; but 

 at that time they were all loft or difperfed. 



* One of them, I have heard, was given by Mr. 

 Perry, the laft mafter of Penlhurft, to Mr. Velters Corn- 

 wall. It was the portrait of his anceflor Sir Jolui 

 Cornwall. 



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