276 Painters in the Reign of^ieen Elizabeth, 



Adams was buried in an ifle on the north 

 fide of the church of Greenwich with this 

 infcription ; Egregio viro, Roberto Adams, 

 operum regiorum fupervifori, architedurae 

 peritifTimo. ob. 1595. Simon Bafil, opera- 

 tionum regiarum contrarotulator hoc pofuit 

 monumentum 1601. 



Valerio Belli^ called Valerio Vicentino, 

 was a celebrated engraver of precious ftones ; 

 Felibien fays,* if his defigns were equal to 

 his execution, he might be compared with 

 the ancients. He engraved cafkets and 

 vafes of rock chryftal for pope Clement VII. 

 and performed an infinite number of other 

 works. He certainly was in England in 

 this reign, and carved many portraits in 

 cameo. Dr. Meade had a fine buft of queen 

 Elizabeth on onyx, f alto relievo in profile, 

 and very large, by the hand of this mailer. 

 I have a jewel by him, containing the head 

 of lord treafurer Burleigh, affixed to the back 

 of an antique intaglia of Caracalla, and ap- 

 pendant to it, a fmaller head of the queen, 

 both in cameo on onyx. The duke of De- 

 vonlhire has feveral of his works : Two J 



* Vol. ii. p. 121. 



f Lord Charlemont bought It at Dr. Meade's fale. 



X The earl of Exeter has alfo one or two. 



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