212 Painting under Edward VI. and Mary. 



modeftly excufed himfelf : and yet, fays the 

 ftory, the king bellowed noble prefents and 

 places on his children. At Utrecht An- 

 tonio found the duke of Alva, and was em- 

 ployed by him to draw feveral of his mif- 

 trefles/ and was made receiver of the reve- 

 nues of Well-Flanders -, b. preferment, with 

 which, they fay, he was fo elated, that he 

 burned his eafel, and gave away his painting 

 tools. 



More was a man of a (lately and hand- 

 fome prefence; and often went to BrulTels, 

 where he lived magnificently. He died at 

 Antwerp in 1575 in the 56th year of his age. 



His portrait, painted by himfelf, is in the 

 chamber of painters at Florence, with which 

 the great duke, who bought it, was fo pleaf- 

 ed, that he ordered a cartel with fome Greek 

 verfes, written by Antonio Maria Salvini, his 

 Greek profeiTor, to be affixed to the frame, 

 Salvini ♦•^-anllated them into Italian and into 

 the following Latin, 



Papae 1 eft imago cujus. 

 Qui Zeiixin atque Apellem, 

 Veierumque quor fuere, 

 Recentiumque quct funt. 

 Genus arte vicit oranes ! 

 Videa* ut fuam ipfe pinxit 



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