s64 Painters in the Reign of^een Elizabeth 



Of his drawings feveral are extant, parti-* 

 cularly a capital one in queen Caroline's 

 clofet at Kenfigton ; the fubjedt, the placing 

 of Chrift in the fepulchre, confiding of twenty- 

 fix figures. * This piece which Ifaac had 

 not compleated, was finiihed by his fon, and 

 is dated 1616. Another, a large drawing, 

 the murder of the Innocents, on blue paper 

 heightened, after Raphael. Vertue faw a print 

 of the hiftory of St, Laurence touched and 

 heightened by Oliver with great (kill. Sir 

 John Evelyn in 1734 fhowed to the Society 

 of Antiquaries f a drawing by Oliver from a, 

 pidlure of Raphael in the Efcurial, of the Vir- 

 gin, Child, and St. John -, it was copied by 

 Ifaac in 1631, while the original was in the 

 colledlion of Charles I. 



He did not always confine himfelf to wa- 

 ter-colours. There are inftances of his 

 working in oil. In this manner he paint- 

 ed his own, his wife's, and the portraits of 

 his children; a head of St. John Baptift on 



* Mr. Hollis has a fine drawing of the fame, in- 

 fcribed Ifa. Ollivier, which he bought at Vertue's Tale. 

 It has been retouched in feveral places. 



f V. Minutes of the Society, vol. i. p. 206. 



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