2S6 Painters in the Reign of ^een Elizabeth, 



At the duke of Bedford's at Woburn is 

 a portrait of Elizabeth Bruges, daughter of 

 the lord Chandois, with this infcription, 

 Hieronymiis Cuftodio, Antwerpienfis fecit 

 1589. The colouring is flat and chalky. 



On the pi6lure of the murder of the 

 lord Darnley at Kenfington is the name of 

 the painter, but fo indiftin6l, that Vertue 

 who engraved it, could not be fure whether 

 it was Levinus Vogelarius or Venetianus. 

 As it is as little certain whether the pi6lure 

 was painted in England, Scotland, or abroad, 

 no great ftrefs can be laid on this painter, 

 as one of queen Elizabeth's artifts. Vertue 

 thought he might be the fame perfon with 

 Levino, nephew of Pordenone, of whofe 

 hand king Charles had a pidure. 



At the fame time refided here one Le 

 Moyne, called f Le Morgues, who is men- 

 tioned by Hackluyt in his tranflation of 

 Laudonniere's voyage to Florida, vol. iii. 

 p. 300. " Divers things of chiefefl import- 

 ance at Florida drawn in colours at the 

 charge of Sir Walter Raleigh by that ikill- 



. f Indorum Floridam provinciam habitantium Icones 

 primum ibidem ad vivum expreflae a Jacopo Le Moyne 

 c«i nomenDe Morgues 1591. 



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