Fainter s in the Reign of^een Elizaheth. 249 



Vroom died rich, in .what year is not men- 

 tioned. 



In the coUedion of king James II. were 

 two fea-pieces^ and in that of Sir Peter Lely, 

 a landfcape, both defcribed to be of old 

 Vroom, whence I fuppofe he had a fon who 

 followed his profeflion, and his flyle too, as 

 in the former catalogue is mentioned a fea- 

 piece with king Charles coming from Spain, 

 faid to be by Vroom, without the adjund of 

 old. I find no other account of the fon^ 

 nor of his being in England. 



Thefe were the principal performers in 

 oil in this reign : fome of lefs note, and 

 of whom but little is recorded, I fhall men- 

 tion at the end of this chapter 5 but firil I 

 fhall treat of the painters in miniature. The 

 name of 



PETRUCCIO UBALDINI 



occurs in feveral places. * He appears to 

 have been an illuminator on vellom ; fome 

 of his works in that kind are or were very 

 lately extant: As the pfalms of David in 

 folio : at the beginning the coat of arms 



* Vertue fays he taught the Italian language. 



and 



