Painters in the Reign of Henry VIII. i^i 



Another portrait of Erafmus, bought at 

 Bafil by the fame Le Blond for an hundred 

 ducats. This was engraved in Holland by 

 Vifcher. It is mentioned in the catalogue 

 of the duke's pidlures p. 17, N\ 6. To 

 this was joined the portrait of Frobenius. 

 Both pi61:ures are now j at Kenfington ; but 

 the architecture in the latter was added after- 

 wards by Stenwyck. 



A large pi(flure, containing the portraits 

 of the Conful Mejer and his fons on one 

 fide, and of his wife and daughters on the 

 other, all praying before an altar. This 

 -N^as fold at Bafil for an hundred pieces of 

 gold; the fame Le Blond in 1633 gave a 

 thoufand rix-dollars for it, and fold it for 

 three times that fum to Mary de* Medici, 

 then in Holland. 



Another portrait of Erafmus ; at Vienna. 



Another there, fuppofed the father of Sir 

 Thom3:s More, This was reckoned one of 

 his capital works. 



X But the Erafmus is thought a copy : the true one 

 King Charles gave to Monf. de Liencourt. fee catai. 

 p. iB. The Frobenius was given to the king by the 

 duke of Buckingham juft before he went to the ifle 

 of Rhee. 



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