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board ; and the holy family. * Vertue com- 

 mends thefe much : as I never faw them, 

 I can give no other account of his fuccefs 

 in this way, than that the works I have (ttn 

 in oil by him, are but indifferent. 



Ifaac Oliver died at his houfe in the 

 Black-friars London, in 16 17, aged fixty- 

 one or fixty-two. He was buried in St. 

 Anne's church in that parifh, where his 

 Ion ere<5ted a monument to his memory, 

 with his buft in marble f. By his will (in 

 the Prerogative- office) proved in Odlober, 

 and executed in the preceding June, he 

 bequeathed to his wife the third of his ef- 

 fects, and the leafe of his houfe in Black- 

 friars s excepting only to his eldeft fon 



* Four heads on board in oil, by Oliver, are at lord 

 Guildford's at Wroxton. Thefe Vertue owns have a 

 little of the llifFnefs of miniature, though at the fame 

 time very neat. Lord Oxford had the famous feamaii 

 T. Cavendifh and Sir Philip Sidney, by Oliver, in oil : 

 the laft is now lord Cheflerlield's : the former is at Wel- 

 beck. In a fale of pidures brought from Ireland was a 

 large oval head of Lucy Harrington countefs of Bedford, 

 and the marriage at Canaan, by Ifaac Oliver, and, \ 

 conclude, in oil. 



f The monument and bull were deftroyed in the great 

 fire in 1666, but a model of the latter is probably ex- 

 tant, Vertue having kzix it. 



Peter, 



