Painting under Edward VI . and Mary, 217 



had alfo of this mailer a pi6ture of Mars and 

 Venus. * 



James II. had of his painting, the Judg- 

 ment of Paris, f and the birth of Chrift with 

 angels. J The duke of Buckingham had a 

 portrait of a man, and Sir Pettr Lely a bac- 

 ■chanahan two feet one inch wide, by three 

 feet four inches high. 



Vertue found grants in this reign to ano- 

 ther painter, who, it feems, had been in the 

 fervice too of Henry and Edward. His 

 name was Nicholas hyjard \ he had a pen- 

 fion for life of ten pounds a year, and the 

 fame fee charged on the cufloms, as had 

 been granted to the ferjeant-painters John 

 Brown and Andrew Wright — Of Lyfard I 

 find no farther mention, but that in a roll of 

 queen Elizabeth's new-years gifts he pre- 

 fents her with a table painted of the hiftory 

 of Ahafuerus, and her majefty gives him one 

 gilt creufe and cover. This was in the firft 

 year of her reign. He died in her fervice 

 1570. In the regiftcr of St. Martin's is this 

 entry, " April 5, buried Nicholas Lyzard 

 ferjeant-painter unto the queen's mcjeflie." 



* Mentioned in a MS. catalop-ue. 



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f See his cat. N" 540, and 8310. 

 \ See his catal. p. iS. 



There 



