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the refurredion of Chrift with two angels ; 

 and another of Peter and Paul. A painter, 

 who afterwards fold it to the prince of Conde, 

 got a great deal of money by ihowing it at 

 the foire St. Germain. 



He made a fine copy of Titian's Danac 

 for the king ; and left unfinifhed the Cir- 

 cumcifion, defigned for the altar in the church 

 of our Lady at Antwerp. 



In the catalogue of pidures at the palais 

 roial is a portrait faid to be of Grotius by 

 Antonio More, who was dead above twenty 

 years before Grotius was born. 



Another performer in this reign was 



JO AS VAN CLE EVE, 



Or Sotto Cleefe, an induftrious painter of 

 Antwerp : his colouring was good, and his 

 figures flefhy and round 3 but before he ar- 

 rived at the perfection he might have at- 

 tained, his head was turned with vanity ; a 

 misfortune not uncommon to the profef- 

 fion, who living fecluded from the world 

 and feeing little but their own creation rif- 

 ing around them, grow intoxicated with the 

 magic of their own performances. Cleeve 

 cam.e to England, expe6ling great prices for 

 his pidures from king Philip, who was 

 O 4 making 



