Painters in the Reign of Henry VIII. 151 



A head of Melancflhon, in oil on board;, 

 a fmall round, very fine. 



Several drawings by Holbein, and fome 

 miniatures are prcferved in various collec- 

 tions. 



There is a very curious pi6i:ure in die 

 colledlion of col. Sothby, faid to be be- 

 gun in France by Janet, and which Vertue 

 thinks might be retouched by Holbein, as 

 it was probably painted tor his patron the 

 duke of Norfolk, from whom it defcended 

 im.mediately to the earl of Arundel, out 

 of whofe collection the father of the pre- 

 fent pofiefibr purchafed it. It reprefents 

 three royal pair dancing in a meadow, with 

 a magnificent building at a diftance , they 

 are Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn; and 

 his fifters Margaret queen of Scots and 

 Mary queen of France with their fecond 

 hufbands, Archibald Douglas and Cliarles 

 Brandon. * Tlue circumftances of three 

 K 4 matches 



* This was Vertue's opinion. The account in tar 

 family calls the man in the middle the duke of Nor- 

 folk, and him on the right hand the duke of Suffolk. 

 If the tradition that this pi6lure reprefents only EngliOi 

 p.erfonag-es were ivDt fo well grounded, I fliould take it 



