^4^ Painters in the Reign of ^uen Elizabeth. 



HENRY CORNELIUS VROOM* 



Was born in 1566 at Harlem, where his fa- 

 ther was a ftatuary, of whom and of his fa- 

 ther in law, a painter of Florence, young 

 Henry learned to draw. His inclination 

 led him firfl to paint views of towns ; in that 

 purfuit he went to Rotterdam, and foon af- 

 ter on board a Spanifh fhip to St. Lucar, 

 and thence to Seville, where he lived a fhort 

 tim.e with a Dutch performer, a painter of 

 monkeys, called by the Spaniards, a Pinte- 

 mony : From thence to Florence and Rome, 

 where he fixed for two years and was employ- 

 ed by Cardinal de' Medici, and became ac- 

 quainted with Paul Brill. At Venice he (laid 

 a year, and palTing through Milan, Genoa, 

 Turin and Paris, returned to Harlem, where 

 he employed himfelf on devout fubjedls 

 in little, and having {locked himfelf with a 

 quantity, again fet out for Spain, where he 

 propofed to fell them, but was caft away on 

 a fmaii idand near the coaft: of Portugal. He 

 and fome of the crew were relieved by 

 monks that lived among the rocks, and 



t See Sandrart 274 and Defcamps 254. 



condudecj 



