fXyo Painters in the Reign of ^een Elizabeth. 



ed by Rowland Hall 1562. % Of Bettes^ 

 there were two of the name, Thomas and 

 John, who, with feveral other painters of 

 that time, are mentioned by Meres in his 

 fecond part of Wit's Commonwealth, pub- 

 lifhed in 1598 at London. '^ As learned 

 Greece had thefe excellent artifts renowned 

 for their learning, fo England has thefe, Hil- 

 llard, Jfaac Oliver and John de Cretz, very 

 famous for their painting. So as Greece had 

 moreover their painters, fo in England we 

 have alfo thefe, William and Francis Segar 

 brethren, Thomas and John Bettes, Lockie, 

 Lyne, Peake, Peter Cole, Arnolde, Mar- 

 cus (Garrard) Jacques de Bruy, Cornelius, 

 Peter Golchi, Hieronimo (de Bye) and Peter 

 Vandevelde. As Lyfippus, Praxiteles and 

 Pyrgoteles, were excellent engravers, fo 

 have we thefe engravers, Rogers, Chriflo- 

 pher Switzer and Cure." I quote this paf- 

 fage to prove to thofe who learn one or two 

 names by rote, that every old pidlure they 

 fee is not by Holbein, nor every miniature 

 by Hilliard or Oliver. By Nicholas Lockie, 

 mentioned in this quotation, there are fe- 

 veral portraits i Dr. Rawlinfon had one of 

 \ Ames's Hiflory of Printing p, 217. 



Dr. 



