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tus, 1598. * another perfon is coming into 

 the room, aged twenty-one. The pidlure is 

 ten inches by feven. 



His painting of James I. ferved Rubens 

 and Vandyke, when they had occafion to 

 draw that prince after his deceafe. 



In an office-book of the lord Harrington 

 treafurer of the chambers, in the pofTeffion 

 of the late Dr. Rawlinfon, was an entry of 

 payment to Ifaac Oliver pidture-drawer, by 

 a warrant dated at Lincoln April 4, 1617, 

 for four feveral pidlures drawn for the 

 prince's highnefs as appeareth by a bill 

 thereunto annexed, 40/. 



In king Charles's catalogue are accounts 

 of feveral of his works : king James II. had 

 ilill more j the earl of Arundel many. He 

 drew a whole length of Robert earl of EfTex 

 in white, and heads of him feveral times, 

 and of many others of the nobility ; but his 

 works are much fcarcer than thofe of his 

 mafter Hilliard. 



Colonel Sothby has a fine Magdalen by 

 him, and the duchefs of Portland a head of 

 Chrift, that was Dr , Meade's. 



* Vertue met with a print, from whence he fuppofed 

 Oliver borrowed his defign. It was infcribed, Colig- 

 naei Fratres, Odetus, Gafpar, Francifcus. 



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