Painters in the Reign of ^etn Elizahetb, 2IS7 



Qui mundum minimum typo minore 

 Solers cudere mortuafque chartas 

 Felici vegetare novit arte, 

 ifaacus jacet hie Olivarius, 

 Cujus vivifica manu paiatum eft, 

 Ut nihil prope debeant Britanni 

 Urbino, Titianoque, Angeloque. 



Befides thefe principal, there v/ere feve- 

 |*al other artifts in this reign, of whom 

 there are only flight memorials. I fliall 

 throw them together as I find them, with- 

 out obferving any particular method.* 



* Vertue had (ten on a large fkin of vellom a plan of 

 the town and boundaries of Danwich in SufFolk, with 

 it's churches, adjacent villages, &c. and feveral re- 

 marks, made by Radulphus Aggas in March 1589. 

 Whether this perfon was a profefled painter does not ap- 

 pear ; but from him was probably defcended Robert 

 Aggas, commonly called Augus, ** who, fays Graham 

 in his Englifli fchool, p. 398, was a good landfcape- 

 painter both in oil and in diftemper, and was fkillfull 

 in architefture, in which he painted many fcenes for the 

 playhoufe in Covent-garden." Few of his works are 

 extant ; the beft is a landfcape prefented by him to the 

 company of painter-ftainers and flill preferved in their 

 hall, with other works of profeflbrs, whofe dates I can- 

 not affign. Robert Aggas died in London in 1679, aged 

 about fixty — but I know not what the autlior I quote 

 means by a playhoufe in Covent-garden before the year 

 1679— I fuppofe it fhould be the theatre in Dorfet-gar- 

 dens. 



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