240 Painters in the Reign of^ieen Elizabeth. 



the Vatican, he fell out with fome of his 

 hollnefs's officers. To be revenged, he 

 painted their portraits with ears of afTes, 

 and expofed the pidure publickly over the 

 gate of St. Luke's church, on the feftival 

 of that faint, the patron of painters. * But 

 for this exploit he was forced to fly from 

 Ronne ; and paffing into France, he was for 

 fonne time employed in the fervice of the 

 cardinal of Lorrain. Thence he went into 

 Flanders, and made cartoons for tapeilryj. 

 and in the year 1574 arrived in England. 

 The queen fat to him for her picture 3 fa 

 did the queen of Scots, for that well-known 

 portrait at Chifwick, which has been en-v 

 graved by Vertue. Another pidure of Eli- 

 zabeth, in a fantaftic habit, fomething like 

 a Perfian, is in the gallery of royal per- 

 fonages at Kenfington. Melville mentions 

 her having and wearing dreiTes of every 

 country : in this piflure too appears her 

 romantic turn ; Hie is drawn in a foreft, a 



* Verrio quarrelling with Mrs. Marriot the houfe- 

 keeper at Windfor, drew her pidliire for one of the 

 furies. This was to gratify his own paffion ; to flatter 

 that of the court, he has reprefented lord Shaftfbury 

 among the Demons of fa«5tion, in St. George's hall. 



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