Painters In the Reign of Henry VIII. 127 



6. An old man, with a gold chain. 



7. Sir Thomas More, lefs than life. 



8. An old man with beads and a death's 

 head. 



In the coUedtion of the duke of Or- 

 leans are four heads ; 



Another Cromwell earl of EfTex, * 



Sir Thomas More. 



A lady. 



George Gyfein. f 



But the greateft and beft of his works 

 were done in England, many of which ftill 

 remain here. Some were loft or deftroyed 

 in the civil war ; fome fold abroad at that 

 time ; and fome, particularly of his mi- 

 niatures were, I believe, confumed when 

 Whitehall was burned. There perifhed the 

 large pidure of Henry VII. J and of Eli- 



* There is a fmall head of him at Devonfhire-houfe 

 with this date, aet. 15. 1515. 



f This is a Dutch name : Peter Gyzen, born about 

 1636, was a painter, and fcholar of Velvet Breughel. 

 Defcamps, vol. iii. p. 41. 



X The portraits of Henry VII. and Elizabeth muft 

 have been taken from older originals : Holbein more 

 than once copied the piflurc of this queen, and of the 

 kings grandame (as Ihe was called) Margaret countefs 

 of Richmond. 



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