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liked — but he enquired for the painter, 

 who was introduced to him. Henry im- 

 mediately took him into his own fervice, 

 and told the chancellor, that now he had 

 got the artift, he did not want the pi6lures. 

 An apartment in the palace was immediate- 

 ly allotted to Holbein, with a falary of 

 200 florins, befides his being paid for his 

 pidlures : The price of them I no where 

 find. 



Patin fays that after three years Holbein 

 returned to Bafil to difplay his good for- 

 tune, but foon returned to England. It 

 is not probable that he lived fo long with 

 Sir Thomas More as is aflerted. He drew 

 the king feveral times, and I fuppofe all 

 his queens, though no portrait of Catherine 

 Parr is certainly known to be of his hand. 

 He painted too the king's children, and 

 the chief perfons of the court, as will be 

 mendoned hereafter. The writers of his 

 life relate a flory, which Vermander, his 

 firfl: biographer, affirms came from Dr. Ifely 

 of Bafil and from Amerbach : yet, in an- 

 other place, Vermander complaining of the 

 latter, to whom he fays he applied for anec- 

 dotes relating to Holbein and his works j 

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