204 Painting under Edward VI. and Mary. 



upon the liberty of the gofpel at the com- 

 ing in pf queen Elizabeth, and became a 

 reading minifter ; only unfortunate, becaufe 

 he was EngliOi born, for even the ftrang- 

 ers * would otherwife have fet him up." 



The prote<5tor was magnificent, and had 

 he lived to compleat Somerfet-houfe, would 

 probably have called in the afllftance. of 

 thofe artifts whofe works are the noblefl furr 

 nitiire. I have already mentioned his por- 

 trait by Holbein. His ambitious duchefs 

 Anne Stanhope and her fon are preferved in 

 a fmall piece -t* of oil-colours at Petworth, 

 but I know not who the painter was, nor 

 of the portrait of the protestor's brother, 

 admiral Seymour, at Longleat. A minia- 

 ture of the fame perfon is in the pofTefTion 

 of Mrs. George Grenville. Of the admi- 

 raFs creature Sir William Sherrington there 

 are two or three pidlures extant ; one, among 

 Holbein's drawings at Kenfington. This 

 man was mafter of the mint, and was con- 

 vidled by his own confeflion of great frauds. J 



* King Philip and the Spaniards. 



t There is a head of her too at Sion, and Mr. Batc- 

 man has given me another in fmall, with a potrait of 

 the protedor in her hand ; painted probably after his 

 death. 



X Strype'« memorials vol. ii. p. 123. 



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