524 Painters in the Reign of ^een Elizabeth, 



often to Namur and Dinant, v/here the fon 

 copied ruins and caftles ; but he foon learn- 

 ed of a better mailer, Francis Floris, un- 

 der whom Lucas improved much, and drew 

 many defigns (which pafTed for his maf- 

 ter*s) for tapeftry and glafs-painters. From 

 Ghent he went to France and was employed 

 by the queen and queen-mother in making 

 drawings for tapeftry ; and refiding fome 

 time at Fontainbieau, where he married 

 Eleanor Carboniere, he contracted a tafte 

 for the antique by feeing the ftatues there, 

 an inclination he ihowed lefs by his own 

 works, than by making a colledlion of 

 bronzes and medals. He returned to Ghent, 

 where he drew the _Gount de Vaken, his 

 lady and their jefter, and painted two or 

 three churches ; in St. Peter's, the fhutters 

 of an altar-piece, in which he reprefented 

 the Lord's Supper, much admired for the 

 draperies of the apoftles. In St. John's 

 church he painted an altar-piece of the Re- 

 furredlion, and on the doors of it, Chrift 

 and the difciples at Emaus, and his appari- 

 tion in the garden. 



Lucas was not only a painter, but a poet . 

 He wrote the Orchard of Poefie j and tranf- 



lated 



