Painters in the Reign of ^leen Elizabeth, 281 



pieces by the fame hand, which afterwards 

 pafTed into the pofTtfTion of Mr. Rowland 

 Holt, the one, Ceres with fruit and flowers s 

 the other, Hercules and the Hydra. In 

 Tradefcanc's Mufeuiii was a fmall landfcape, 

 painted and given to him by Sir Nathaniel 

 Bacon. 



Of the engravers in the reign of queen 

 Elizabeth, who were many and of merit, I 

 fhall fay nothing here j Vertue having col- 

 ledled an ample and feparate account of 

 them, which makes another volume of this 

 work. I fliall only mention now that thac 

 age refembled the prefent in it*s palTion for 

 portraits of remarkable perfons. Stowe in his 

 annals fpeaking of the duke d'Alencon, who 

 came over to marry the queen, fays " by 

 this time his pidure, flate and titles were 

 advanced in every ftationer's fliop and many 

 other public places." * The fame author 



mentioning 



* In the Cecil papers is a letter to the lord mayor of 

 London dated July 21, 1561, telling him ** The 

 queen's majefty undciftandeth that certain bookbisiders 

 and ftationers utter certain papers wherein be printed 

 the face of her maiefty and the king of Sweden ; and 

 although her highnefs is not mifcontented that either 

 her owo face or the faid king's iliould be painted or 



port raited J 



