Fainter s in the Reign of ^een Elizabeth, 233 



Lucas de Heere returned to his own coun- 

 try before his death, which happened at 

 Ghent in 1584. His mark, as above, is on 

 mofl: of his pi6bures. He ufed for an ana- 

 gram thefe words, Schade leer u, which 

 Sandrart fays fignify, Nocumenta tibi fine 

 documenta. 



CORNELIUS KETEL* 



Was born at Gouda in 1548, and early pro- 

 fecuted his art with great ardour, under the 

 direftion of his uncle, a tolerable painter 

 and a better fcholar. At eighteen he went 

 to Delft, and placed himfelf with Antony 

 Blockland, with whom he remained a year. 

 From thence he travelled to Fontainbleau, 

 where he worked with great applaufe, in 

 competition with three of his countrymen ; 



The merry tales of the mad men of Gotham ; a book 

 extremely admired and often reprinted in that age. A 

 right pleafant and merry hillory of the mylner of Ab- 

 ingdon, with his wife and his fair daughter, and of two 

 poor fcholars of Cambridge ; and other tilings which 

 may be feen in Antony Wood, vol. i. p. 75. 



* See Sandrart 272. and Carl. Vermander, from 

 whence Vertue collecfted moft of the particulars of Ke- 

 tel's life ; and Defcamps who copied Vermander. p. 69. 



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