2^4 Painters in the Rergn of^een Elizabeths 



of die times he curioufly delineated ; but he 

 feldom attempted beyond a head, yet his per- 

 formances were greatly valued ; Dr. Donne 

 in his poem on the ftorm in which the earl of 

 EfTex was furprized returning from the illancj 

 voyage, fays. 



' a hand or eye 



By Hilliard drawn, is worth a hiftory 

 By a worfe painter made. 



And Peacham on limning fays, ^^ compar- 

 ing ancient and modern painters, brings the 

 comparifon to our own time and country ; 

 nor mufl: I be ungratefully unmlndfull of my 

 own countrymen, v/ho have been and are 

 able to equal die beil if occafion ferved, as 

 old Fliiliard, Mr. Ifaac Oliver, inferior to 

 none in Chriftendome for the countenance 

 in fmail, &c." f Richard Heydock too of 

 new college Oxon, in his tranflation of Lo- 

 mazzo on painting, publifned in 1598, fays, 

 " Lrimnings, much ufed in former times in 

 church-books, as alfo in drawing by the 

 life in fmall models ; of late years by ibme 

 of our countrymen, as ShootCy BcttSy &c. 



• See an account of liim in Wood's Athenae vol. ii. 



but 



