1 34 Painters in tl e Reign of Henry VIII, 



In one of the king's cabinets is a mi- 

 niature of two children of Charles Bran- 

 don. 



Over one of the doors is a pidture afcrib- 

 ed to Holbein^ and fuppofed to be queen 

 Elizabeth, when princefs, with a book in 

 her handj but I queftion both the painter- 

 and the perfon reprefented. 



He drew Will. Somers, f king Henry's 

 jefler, from which there is a print. It is 

 perhaps a little draw-back on the fame of 

 heroes and flatefmen, that fuch perfons, 

 who fhared at leafl an equal portion of 

 royal favour formerly, continue to occupy 

 a place even in the records of time — at 

 leafl, we antiquaries, Vv^ho hold every thing 

 worth preferving, merely becaufe it hr.§ 

 been preferved, have widi the names of 

 Henry, Charles, Elizabeth, Francis I. WoU 



into a goldfmith's Ihop for fnelter, he found there a pic- 

 ture of Holbein (who had lived in that houfe) and Jiis 

 family. He offered the goldfmith loo/. for it, who 

 confented to let him have it, but defired iiril to fhow 

 it to fome perfons. Immediately after happened the 

 fire of London and the pidlure was deftroyed. 



f There is a burlefque figure of him in the armory at 

 the Tower. 



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