1202 Painting under EdwardYA. and Mar y\ 

 MARC W I L L E M S, 



Who was born at AntweqD about 1527, and 

 was fcholar of Michael Coxie. He was 

 reckoned to furpafs his cotcmporaries in his 

 manner and facility of compofing. This 

 pi6lure is the fole evidence of his having been 

 in England : in his own country he painted 

 the decollation of St. John, flill extant in 

 the church of St. Rombout, for which too 

 he drew the flory of Judith and Holofer- 

 nes. When Philip II. made his public en- 

 try into Mechlin in 1549, Willems was em- 

 ployed to paint a triumphal arch, on which 

 he reprefented the hiflory of Dido. He 

 made defigns for mod of the painters, glafs- 

 painters and arras-makers of his time, and 

 died lamented in 156 1. * 



Another piflure of Edward VI. was in the 

 colledlion of Charles I. painted by Hans 

 Hueet, of whom nothing elfe is known. It 

 was fold for 20 /. in the Civil War. 



There was another painter who lived at 

 this time, of whom Vertue found an account 

 in a MS. of Nicholas Hilliard, but never 

 difcovered any of his works. As this perfon 



* See Delcarops and Sandrart, 



is 



