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rington's at Whitehall, both whole lengths, 

 and another in the gallery of royal portraits, 

 at Kenfington, which whoever painted ir, 

 is execrable 5 one at Petworth, and another 

 in the gallery at Windfor. But there is 

 one head of that king at Kenfington, not 

 only genuine, but perhaps the mod perfecft 

 of his works. It hangs by the chimney in 

 the fecond roonn, leading to the great draw- 

 ing-room i and would alone account for 

 the judgment of Depiles, who in his fcale 

 of pid:urefque merit, allows 16 degrees for 

 colouring to Holbein, when he had allotted 

 but 12 to Raphael. I conclude that ic 

 was in the fame light that Frederic Zuc- 

 chero confidered our artift, when he told 

 Goltzius that in fome refpedts he preferred 

 him to Raphael. Both Zucchero and De- 

 piles underftood the fcience too well to 

 make any comparifon except in that one 

 particular of colouring, between the great- 

 eft genius, in his way, that has appeared, 

 and a man who excelled but in one, and 

 that an inferior branch of his art. The 

 texture of a rofe is more delicate than that 

 of an oak; I do not fay that it grows fo 

 lofty or cafts fo extenfive a fhade. 

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