Painters in the Reign of Henry VII I. 1 23 



yard long ; painted in diftemper. Thefc 

 were carried to Holland by Barthol. Sar- 

 bruck a painter, who made copies of them, 

 preferved in the Fefchian^mufeum. 



The picture of queen Mary : Dr. Patin 

 had it, and the following -, 



An old man with a red forked beard, fup- 

 pofed to be a grand mailer of Rhodes. 



The dance of. Death in the church-yard 

 of the Predicants of the fuburbs of St. John 

 at Bafil is always afcribed to Holbein, and 

 is fhown to ftrangers through a grate. 

 And yet, as Vertue obferved, our painter 

 had undoubtedly no hand in it. Pope Eu- 

 genius IV. appointed the council of Bafii 

 in 1 43 1, and it fat there 15 years, during 

 which time a plague raged that carried off 

 all degrees of people. On the cefTation of 

 it, the work in queftion was immediately 

 painted as a memorial of that calamity. 

 Holbein could not be the original painter, 

 for he was not born 'till 1498; nor had 

 any hand in the part that was added in 

 1529, at which time he had left Bafil. Even 

 if he had been there when it was done 

 (which was about the time of his fhort re- 

 turn thither) it is not probable that men- 

 tion 



