The Exhibition of Miniatures at South Kensington. 99 



James, with Edinburgh in the background, ascribed to Hilliard. 

 — Ascribed to the same, Mary, with a somewhat gipsy-like 

 expression. " Given by Mary to one of her maids of honour 

 on the [which ?] occasion of her marriage ; from whom it 

 descended to her grandson, the second and last Earl of 

 Middleton, who died 1695. " — The same, painter anonymous. 

 " Small full-length portrait, holding a crucifix in her right 

 hand, and a book in her left; beside her, on a table, is a crown 

 and sceptre, and in the field to the right are painted the royal 

 arms of England. Inscribed ' Maria Stuart, anno 30.'' " A 

 notable and pretty little portrait. We may add that this series 

 of miniatures only confirms, what is well known to investigators, 

 that the divergences between the various so-called portraits of" 

 Mary Stuart are extremely serious. 



Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Younger than in most 

 of the portraits, say about thirty-four years of age, with hair 

 already thin. 



Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, by I. Oliver. Unfinished. 

 — The same, 1588. Oil on copper. 



William Cecil, Lord Burleigh. A small full-length. — 

 Another, age about forty, with a knowing, penetrating glance. 



Thomas Hoiuard, fourth Duke of Norfolk, by Sir A. More. 

 Oil. Inscribed " JEtatis 25, 1562." This is the Duke of 

 Norfolk, son of the beheaded Surrey, and himself beheaded 

 under Elizabeth. The portrait is a fine one, like a Holbein. 



Sir Francis Drake, by Hoskins. — By Hilliard, inscribed 

 " ^Etatis suEe 42, Ano Dni. 1581." If 1545, the date of birth 

 ordinarily given, is correct, Drake can only have been thirty- 

 five or thirty-six in 1581. This portrait bears some resem- 

 blance to one which is catalogued as Sir Philip Sidney. 



Sir Walter Raleigh, " ^Etatis suee 65, A.D. 1618." — The 

 same, by I. Oliver. Looks hardly more than some twenty-one 

 years of age, the face less long than in some other portraits. 



Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, " the.friend and 

 patron of Shakespeare," 1616, by the same. This portrait shows 

 a well-made face, in early middle age, with a slightly Jewish 

 expression. There is nothing in it conspicuous enough to 

 favour the theory that the friend whose personal beauty is so 

 enthusiastically praised in Shakespeare's sonnets can have been 

 Wriothesley. — By P. Oliver. A very aristocratic head; some- 

 what too much so perhaps, as if the blood had ran pure so long 

 that it had begun to thin. One may notice a certain resem- 

 blance to Charles I. 



Sir Fhilip Sidney, ascribed to I. Oliver, inscribed " Anno 

 Domini 1586, -ZEtatis suse 19." Sidney was properly thirty- 

 two years of age in 1586, the date of his death. This portrait 

 presents light curly hair and a wry mouth ; perhaps it is not 



