130 Painters in the Reign of Heni-y VIII. 



Oppofite to this picture hangs another, 

 but much inferior, called in the catalogue 

 lord Arundel, or Howard ; * the latter name 

 is a confufion, occafioned by the title of 

 Arundel pafllng into the family of Howard. 

 The portrait in queflion, I fuppofe, is of H. 

 Fitzalan earl of Arundel, and probably the 

 very perfon who firfl perfuaded Holbein to 

 come into England. 



In the flate bed-chamber is a portrait of 

 Edward VI. It was originally a half length ; 

 but has been very badly converted into a 

 whole figure fince the time of Holbein. 



Confidering how long he lived in the fer- 

 vice of the crown, it is fuprizing that fo 

 few of his works fhould have remained in 

 the royal collection ^ Charles I. appears hj 

 his catalogue to have poITelTed but about a 

 dozen. All the reft v/ere difperfed but 

 thofe I have mentioned (unlefs the whole 

 length of the unfortunate earl of Surrey, in 

 a red habit, in the lower apartment at 

 Windfor is fo, as I believe it is) and a fine 

 little pi6ture of a man and woman, faid to 



* The fine original of Thomas Howard duke of Nor- 

 folk with the ftaves of earl-marfhal and lord treafurer, 

 from whence the print is taken, is at Leicefler-houfe, 



be 



