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" At four years old he was taught to read by the parish 

 school-master, whose school was over the church porch; and 

 ' at six his picture was drawn by one Chanteral, no ill pain- 

 ter.' If this portrait, as is not unlikely, be preserved in the 

 family, it should have been engraved for the present work; it 

 would have been very interesting to compare the countenance 

 of such a person, in childhood, in the flower of years, when 

 his head was engraved by Nanteuil, and in ripe old age, 

 when he sat to Sir G. Kneller." In Aubrey's Surrey, vol. iv. 

 are many interesting particulars of Mr. Evelyn, and his 

 family, and he gives a list of his works. He says " his pic- 

 ture was thrice drawn in oil; first, in 1641, by one Vander- 

 borcht, brought out of Germany at the same time with 

 Hollar, the graver, by the Earl of Arundel ; a second time in 

 1648, by Walker; and the third time by Sir G. Kneller, for 

 his friend Mr. Pepys, of the Admiralty, of which that at the 

 Royal Society is a copy. There is a print of him by Nan- 

 teuil, who likewise drew him more than once in black and 

 white, with Indian ink; and a picture, in crayon, by Luterel." 

 Mr. Evelyn lived in the busy times of Charles I., Cromwell, 

 Charles II., James II., and William. He had much personal 

 intercourse with Charles II. and James II., and was in the 

 habits of great intimacy with many of the ministers of those 

 two monarchs, and of ; the eminent men of those days. Fo- 

 reigners, distinguished for learning or arts, who came to 

 England, did not leave it without visiting him. His manners 

 we may presume to have been of the most agreeable kind, 

 for his company was sought by the greatest men, not merely 

 by inviting him to their own tables, but by their repeated 

 visits to him at his own house. Mr. Evelyn lived to the 

 great age of eighty-six, and wished these words to be in- 

 scribed on his tomb: "all is vanity that is not honest, and 

 there is no solid wisdom but in real piety."* Cowley, in a 



* In his Diary is the following entry: " 1658, 27 Jan. After six fits of 



