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Qther, of the fame fize, is of a young noble- 

 man, in a white ftiff-bodied habit, black 

 cloak and hat i he is very fwarthy but I^and- 

 fome. His age 22, 1563. This piece is 

 finely preferved and ftrongly coloured. In 

 the life of Holbein I have mentioned the 

 Henry VIII. at Trinity Coll. Cambridge, 

 with De H^eere's mark. The face has been 

 repainted, but the reft of the body is highly 

 finifhed, and does great honour to the 

 copyift. 



In 1570 Lucas was employed to paint a 

 gallery for Edward earl of Lincoln, the lord 

 high admiral. * He was to reprefent the 

 habits of different nations. When he came 

 to the Englilh, he painted a naked man 

 with cloth of different forts lying by him, 



* At the duke of Bedford's at Wobourn are two heads 

 of a countefs of liincoln and of lady Anne Ayfcough, 

 daughter of the earl. As they are evidently painted 

 at the fame time, and as the daughter appears the 

 elder perfon, there is great reafon to believe that the 

 countefs was only the mother-in-lasv, and confequently 

 that this portrait reprefents the fair Geraldine, fo much 

 celebrated by the earl of Surrey. Her chief beauty 

 feems to have been her golden hair. Thefe piftures, I 

 fiiould think, were painted by the following mailer, 

 Ketel, rather than by Lucas de Heere. 



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