I40 Painters in the Reign of Henry VIII. 



Felibien and Depiles fay that they were car- 

 ried into France from Flanders, whither 

 they were tranfported I fuppofe after the 

 deftrudlion of the company, of which Stowe f 

 gives the following account. The Steel- 

 yard was a place for merchants of Almaine 

 who ufed to bring hither ^yhe3t, rye, and 

 other grain , cables, ropes, mafts, ileel and 

 other profitable merchandize. Henr}^ III. 

 at the requefl of his brother Richard earl of 

 Cornwall and king of Almaine gave them 

 great privileges, they then having a houfe 

 Called, Guilda Aula Teutonicorum. Ed- 

 ward 1. confirmed their charter ; and in the 

 fame reign there was a great quarrel be- 

 tween the m.ayor of London and thofe mer- 

 chants of the Flaunce, about the reparation 

 of Bifhop-gate, which was impofed on them 

 in confidex^ation of their privileges, and 



the younger portr?.its of Henry VIII. By the maflerly 

 execution of thefc drawings, I fhould conclude them 

 Zucchero's copies ; but the horfes, which are remark- 

 ably fine and Ipirited, and other touches, are fo like the 

 manner of Vandyck, that one is apt to attribute them 

 to Voilerman who lived in his tir^e. Probably the 

 Triumph of Riches is "V^orierman's copy, and that of Po- 

 verty, Zucchero's. They are now at Strawberry-hill. 

 f S'arv.cy ofl^andon p. 249. 



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