124 P^^inters in the Reign of Hemy VIII. 



tion of him would have been omitted in 

 the infcription which the magiflrates caufed 

 to be placed under thofe paintings, efpe- 

 cially when the name of one Hugo Klauber, 

 a painter who repaired them in 1569, is 

 carefully recorded. But there is a ftronger 

 proof of their not being the work of Hol- 

 bein, and at the fame time an evidence of 

 his tafte. The paintings at Bafil arc a dull 

 feries of figures, of a pope, emperor, king, 

 queen, &c. each feized by a figure of 

 Death 3 but in the prints which Hollar has 

 given of Holbein's drawings of Death's 

 Dance, a defign he borrowed from the 

 v/ork at Bafil, there are groupes of figures, 

 and a richnefs of fancy and invention pe- 

 culiar to him.felf. Every fubjecl is varied, 

 and adorned with buildings and habits q{ 

 the times, which he had the fingular art of 

 making pidturefque. 



At Amfterdam in the Warmoes-flreet was 

 a fine pidlure of a queen of England in fil- 

 ver tiflue. 



Two portraits of himfelf, one, a fmall 

 round, j- was in the cabinet of James Razet j 



f Mr. George Auguftus SeUvyn has one that ai>- 

 fwers exaftly to this account, and is in perfeiSl preferva- 

 tion.. Mr. Walpole has another, and better preferved. 



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