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service " each sheire canne affourd upon all 

 occasions on enterprise." 



Among the leaders of this expedlti»)!i was 

 the Duke of Arenberg, whose portrait, 

 painted by Vandyke, is in the collection of 

 the Earl of Leicester, at Holkham Hall, and 

 from which the accompanying engraving is 

 taken. In Smith's Catalogue of Painters, 

 vol. ill., p. 148, this is described as one of 

 the great artist's most successful equestrian 

 portraits. Vandyke Is believed to have 

 visited this country In 1620 and to have 

 executed commissions for James I. who con- 

 ferred upon him a pension and a safe conduct 

 which enabled him to travel without hind- 

 rance through all continental countries whose 

 sovereigns were friendly to England. The 

 picture affords Interesting proof of the close 

 resemblance of the English war horse in the 

 first quarter of the seventeenth century to 

 that portrayed by Albert Durer more than 

 one hundred years earlier. The colour is dif- 

 ferent ; but in all material points it is prac- 

 tically Identical with the white Great Horse 

 of the German painter. The similarity of 

 character is not confined to the horse on 

 which the Duke is mounted ; in the back- 

 ground a body of cavalry is represented, and 

 an engraving on large scale of this p<jrtion of 



