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Vaux and others." Thefe pictures I fhould 

 not think of Holbein -, the figures are more 

 free than his, lefs finiflied, and the colour- 

 ing fainter : and none of the Englidi feem 

 portraits. The fpclling too of Suffoy is 

 French. Probably thefe pieces were done 

 by Janet, who was an able mailer, was co- 

 temporary with Flolbein, and whofe works 

 are often confounded with our painter's. * 



Holbein's fame was fo thoroughly efla- 

 blifhed, f even in his life, that the Italian 

 mailers vouchfafed to borrow from him. In 

 particular Michael Angelo Caravaggio was 

 much indebted to him in two different 

 pidlures. Rubens was fo great an admirer 

 of his works that he advifed young Sandrart 

 to ftudy his Dance of Death, from which 

 Rubens himfelf had made drawings. 



This account of a man, dear to connoif^ 

 feurs for the lingular perfection of his co-- 

 louring, become dear to antiquaries by the 



* In the great drawing-room at Coudray is a chim- 

 ney-piece painted with grotefque ornaments in the good 

 tafte of Holbein, and probably all he executed at that 

 curious old feat, the tradition in the family being, that 

 he ftaid there but a month, 



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