Painters in the Reign of Henry VIII. 145; 



jewels, &c. are extremely laboured. As the 

 portraits of the family, in feparate pieces, 

 were already drawn by Holbein, the injudi- 

 cious journeyman iluck them in as he found 

 them, and never varied the lights, which 

 were difpofed, as it was indifferent in fingle 

 heads, fome from the right, fome from the 

 left, but which make a ridiculous contra- 

 di6i;ion when tranfported into one piece. 

 This pidure, purchafed as I have faid by 

 Mr. Roper, the fon of that amiable Marga- 

 ret, whofe behaviour when Sir Thomas re- 

 turned to the tov;er was a fubjecl not for 

 Holbein, but for PoufTin or Shakefpear ! 

 This pi«fture remained 'till of late years at 

 Wellhall in Eltham, Kent, the manfion of 

 the Ropers. That houfe being pulled down, 

 it hung for fome time in the king's houfe 

 at Greenwich, foon after which, by the death 

 of the lafl Roper, whofe fole daughter mar- 

 ried Mr. Henfhaw, and left three daughters, 

 the family-pidlure then valued at 300/. came 

 between them, and Sir Rowland Wynne, 

 who married one of them, bought the fharcs 

 of the other two, and carried the pi6lure into 

 Yorkfhire where it now remains. 



The oth^r fmall one is in the colledion of 

 Vol. I. K colonel 



