274 Painters in the Reign of^een Elizabeth, 



Richard Stephens above-mentioned was a 

 Dutchman, and no com.mon artift. He was 

 a ftatuary, painter and medallift. The fi- 

 gures on lord SufTex^s tomb were his work, 

 and in a good ftyle. In the family of Lum- 

 \^Y ^^^ fome portraits painted by him, * 

 and among other accounts fome of his 

 receipts, as there are too in the polTeflion of 

 the duke of Devonfhire> which makes . it 

 highly probable that the curious portraits 

 at Hardwicke of queen Elizabeth, in a 

 gown embroidered with fea-mofters, the 

 queen of Scots, both at whole length, and 

 others, were painted by this Richard Stevens. 

 But his beft performances feem to have 

 been his medals, which are bold and in good 

 taile. Mr. Bryan Fairfax had one with a 

 lady's head in the drefs of ^le times, and 

 this legend, 



Anna Poines, uxor Thomae Heneage ; 

 under the bud, 1562. Ste. H, F. that is, 

 Stephens, Hollandus, fecit. 



* Particularly John lord Lumley 1590. When Jer- 

 vafe faw this pifture (on which the name of Stephens 

 appears) it was fo well coloured, and fo like the man. 

 ner of Holbein, that he concluded many pictures 

 afcribed to that matter are the works of Stephens. 



Dr. 



