io6 Painters in the Reign of Henry VIII. 



author, with very little fpirit of repartee, 

 wrote under a fellow drinking, the name 

 of Holbein. Thefe are anecdotes certainly 

 not worth repeating for their importance, 

 but very defcriptive of the efteem in which 

 two men were held of whom fuch anecdotes 

 could be thought worth preferving. * 



Supported by the protedlion of thefe 

 friends, Holbein grew into great reputa- 

 tion. The earl of Arundel f returning 

 from Italy through Bafil, faw his works, 

 was charmed with them, and advifed him 

 to go into England. At firft Holbein neg- 

 lected this advice 3 but in 1526 his family 



* In the Moriae Encomium publiflied at Bafil by 

 M. Patin, i6|6, with cuts from Holbein's defigns, 

 there is a large account of him colle<fled by Patin, and 

 a catalogue of his works. On thofe drawings were 

 written the following lines ; 



Rex Macedon Coo tumidus pidore, cani fe 



Maeoniae doluit non potuiiTe fene. 

 Stultitiae potior fors eft ; hanc alter Apelles 

 Pingit, et eloquium laudat, Erafme, tuum. 



Seb. Fefchius Bafil. 

 ■f Others fay it was the earl of Surrey who was tra- 

 velling into Italy ; and that Holbein not recoUe^ling his 

 riamc, drew his piifture by memory, and Sir Thomas 

 More immediately kjiew it to be thnt lord. 



and 



