1 66 Painters in the Reign cf Henry VI IT, 



H^mpton-courtj which I fhould fuppofe is 

 by the fame m after. 



Among the Harleian MSS. is an eftimate 

 of the charge and expence of the * monu- 

 ment to be eredcd for Henry VII. in which 

 appear the names of odier artifts who work- 

 ed under TorreggianOj as Laurence Ymber, 

 kerver, for maldng the patrons in tim- 

 ber ; Humphrey Walker, founder 5 Nicho- 

 las Ewer, copper-fmith and gilder 5 John 

 Bell and John Maynard, painters ; Robert 

 Vertue, Robert Jenings, and John Lebons, 

 mafcer mafons. There was another called 

 William Vertue, w^ho by indenture dated 

 June 5j in the twenty-firft year of Henry VII, 

 engaged with John Hylmer, to vault and 

 roof the choir of the chapel of St. George at 



* At Strawberry -hill Is a model in Hone of th^ 

 head of Henry 7th in the agony of death. It is in 

 the great flyle of Raphael and Michael Angelo and 

 worthy of either, though undoubtedly by Torreggiano. 

 I have alfo a matchlefs portrait of the kin^, which 

 ieems evidently taken from the life, as ftrongly repre- 

 fentative of his penfive policy ; yet it is touched with 

 fo mafterly a knowledge of chiaro fcuro, that I and 

 better judges conjecture that it was recoloured by Ru- 

 bens hirnfelf. 



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