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CHAP. I.

PAINTERS in the Reign of Charles II.
p. I. .
C H A P. II.

Stntnnries, Carvers, Architeﬂs, and Me-
dalli/fs, in the Reign qf Charles II. p. 143.

C H ,A P. III.
Anti/2‘: in tbe Reign of James II. p. 180.

C H A P. IV.
Painters in tbe Reign of King William,
1:. 19 3.

CHAP. V.

Painter: and other drti/l: in tbe Reign 9"
Queen Anne, 9. 265'.

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Painter: in tbe Reign of CHARLES II.
, HE arts were in a“ manner expelled
with the Royal Family from 'Britain.

The anecdotesof a Civil War arethe-hif—
tory of Del’tr'ué‘tion. In all ages the m&
~have vented their hatred to Tyrants on the
pomp of Tyranny. The magniﬁcence»; the
people have envied, they grow to detel’c,
and miﬁaking confequences for caufes, . the
ﬁrft objeé‘t's of their fury are the palaces of
their matters. If Religion is thrown into
the quarrel, the moﬂ: innocent arts are cata-
logued with ﬁns. This was. the cafe in the
conteﬁsbetween Charles and his parlia-
ment. & he had blended aﬂ'eétion to‘the
,fciences with‘ a lull: of. power, nonfenfe and
ignorance were adopted into the liberties
of the fubjeét. Painting became idolatry;
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2 Painter: in the-Rag): of Cbarle: II.

monuments were deemed carnal pride, and
archer-able cathedral {Eemed equally con-
tradictory to Magna Charta and the Bible.
Learning and wit were conflrued to be ﬂ)
heathen, thﬁt one w0uld have thought the
Holy Ghoﬁ: could endure nothing above a
pun. What the fury of Henry VIII. had
fp‘d, was condemned by the Puritans :
,Ruin was their 'harveﬁ, and they gleaned
after the Reformers. Had they counte-
nanced any of the fofter arts, what could thofe
its have reprefcnted ? How piélurefque was
:the ﬁgure of an Anabaptiﬂ? But feétaries
have no oftenﬁble enjoyments; their plea.
fures are private, comfortable and grofs. The
arts that civilize fociety are not calculated
for men who mean to rife on the ruins of
~ eﬁablifhed order. Jargon and auﬁerities are
the weapons that belt ferve the purpofes of
'hereﬁarcs and innovators. The fcienees have
been excommunicated from the Gnoﬁics to
Mr. Whitﬁeld.
The reftoration of royalty brought back
the arts, not taﬂe. Charles II. had a turn
to mechanics, none to the politer fciences.

He

Pam-r: In” tbe‘Rez‘gh'af Charles H. ~33
He had learned * to draw in his yotith‘é-ih
the imperial library at Vienna lsa ‘view- of
the ille of Jerfey, deligned by him; btft he
was too indolent even to ethnic himfe‘lﬁ
He introduced the {albiOns of the-court" of
FranCe, without its elegance. -He- had: Teen
Louis XIV. countenance Carmine; Moli'eré,
Boileau, Le Sueur, who forming themfeﬁa
on the models of the ancients, feeme‘d by
the purity of their Writings to have ﬁudied
only in 1- Sparta. Charles found as much
genius at home, but how licentious, ”hart

* See before, vol. ii. p. :72. ,

1- It has been objeéted by fome pe‘rfons that the ex-
preﬂion of ﬂuzlying' in Spam: is improper, as the Spar-
tans were an illiterate people and produced no authors:
A Criticifm I think very ill-founded. The purity er
the French writers, not their learning, is the obje& df
the text. Many men travelled to Lacedaemon to Rudy;
the laws and inﬂitutions of Lycurgus. Men viﬁt all
countries, under the pretence at leaﬁ of ﬁudi’i‘ng the
refpeé‘tive manners-z nor have I ever hearci before that
the term ﬂudying was reﬂric‘ted to meer reading; Wherii
I fay an author wrote as chaRly as if he had ﬁadied:
only in Sparta, is it not evident that I meaned his
morals, not his information, were forfned on the patch
models”? ‘ ' I

A 2 indelicate

4. Painter: in tbe Reigu'of Cbarles If.

Nindelicate was the Iter he permitted or de-
‘tnmded LDFyden’s tragedies are a- compound
,of bombaﬁzand heroic obfcenity, inelofed in
the rtioft beautiful numbers. ' If Wycherley
had nature; it is nature f’cark naked. The
painters‘of that time veiled it but little more ;
Sir Peter Lely fearce faves appearances but
by! bit of fringe or embroidery. His nymphs,
generally repofed on the turf, are too wanton
and too magniﬁcent to be taken for any
thing but maids of hon0ur. Yet fantaﬁic as
his compoﬁtions feem, they were pretty much
in the drefs of the times, as is evident by a
puritan tract publifhed in 1678, and inti-
tuled, “ Juli and reafonable Reprehenﬁons of
naked Breaﬁs and Shoulders." The court
had'gone a good way beyond the faihion of
the preceding reign, when the galantry in
vogue was to wear a lock of fome favorite
object ; and yet Prynne had thought that
mode fo damnable, that he publifhed an ab.-
furd piece .againﬁ it, called, The Unloveli-
nel's of Lovelocks. *
i ‘ The

.° At thcfale of the late lady Worfeley, was the por-i
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Painter: in the Reign 131‘ Clark: H.‘ 5

The fettaries, in oppofition to thekin‘g,‘
had run into the extreme againi’t'politenefs ~:
The new court, to indemnify thern'felyes’
and mark averﬁon to their rigid adverihries,‘
took the other extreme. Elegance and de-v"
licacy were the point from which both'ﬁdes
I‘tarted different ways; andtaﬁe was as little
fought by the men of wit, as by thofe who
called themfelves the men of God. The
latter thought that to demolifh was to re.
form; the others, that ridicule was the
only rational correétive , and thus while one
party deltroyed all order, and the other gave
a loofe to diforder, no wonder the age pro-
duced fcarce any work of art, that was Worm
thy of being preferved by poﬂerity; Yet
in a hiftor-y of the arts, as in other‘h’iF-i
tories, the times of confuﬁon and bai‘baﬁftii
mul’t have their place to preferve the ,gcén“;
neé‘tion, and to afcertain the ebb and. Bone
of genius. One likes to fee through what

trait of the duchefs of Somerfet, daughter of Robert
earl of Elie-x, [QElizabeth’s favorite] with a lock of
her father’s hair hanging on her neck; and the lock
itfelf was in the fame aut‘tion.

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.6. Water; in. the Reign of Charles II.

619945 broke forth the age of Auguﬁus.
The pages that follow will prefent the reader-
with ‘few memorable 'names ; the number
muﬁ'atone for merit, if that can be thought
any atonement. The ﬁrﬂ; * perfon who made
any ﬁgure, and who Was properly a remnant
ofﬁbetter-age, was

ISAAC FULLER.

Of his family or mailers, I ﬁnd no ac~
eount, except that he ﬁudied many years
in France under Perrier, who engraved the
antique ﬁatues. ' Grahalm fays “ he wanted
the regular improvements of travel to con-

“ .1! Venue was told by old Mr. Laroon, who faw him
in Kai-kiln”, that the celebrated Rembrandt~ was in
its/1661.. and lived 16 or 18 months at Hull,
where he drew {everal gentlemen and feafaring perfons.
M. '/ Dahl had one of thofe piﬂures. There are two
ﬁne whose lengths at Yarmouth, which might be done
“the {urge time, As there is no other evidence of
Rembrandt being in England, it was not neceﬂ'ary to
make a feparate article for him, efpecially at a time
when he is f0 well-known, and his works in fuch re-
pute, that his fcratches, with the difference only of a
black horfe or a. white one, fell for thirty guineas.

ﬁder

Painler: 23‘: {be Reign of Charles If: 7
ﬁder the antiques, and underl’cbod the anaa
tomic part of painting, perhaps equal to
Michael Angelo, following it To clofe, that
he was very apt to make the mufcelling too
ﬁrong and prominent.” But this writer
was not aware that the very fault he objects
to Fuller did not proceed from not having
feen the antiques, but from having {con
them too partially, and that he was only to
be compared to Michael Angelo from a‘
ﬁmilitude of errors, ﬂowing from a limi—
litude of Rudy. Each caught the robuft
llyle from ancient ﬁatuary, without attain;
ing it’s graces. If Graham had avoided
hyperbole, he had not fallen into a bluns'
der. In his hif’toric compoﬁtions Fuller is‘
a wretched painter, his colouring was raw‘
and unnatural, and not compenfated by dif—
poﬁtion or invention. In portraits his pens
{ll was bold? thong,- and maﬁerly: Men
who lhine in the latter, and mifcarry in the
former, want imagination. They fucceed
only 'in what they fee. Liotard is a living
inﬂancfe of this ﬁerility. He cannot paint
a blue ribband if a lady is dreﬁcd in pur.‘

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8 PaiﬁterJ‘in‘rbe-Reign of Charles II. .

ple- knots. .If: he had been in the prifon at
the death of Socrates, and the paﬁions were
as permanent as the perfons on whom they
aéiz, he might have made a ﬁner picture than
Nicolb Pouﬂin.

Graham {peaks of Fuller as extravagant
and burlefque in his manners, and fays,.that
they inﬂuenced the Pter of his works. *
-The former character feems more true than
the latter. ' I have a, piéhlre of Ogleby by
him, in which he certainly has not'debafed
his fubjeé‘t, but has made Ogleby appear a.
moonﬁruck bard, inflead of a contemptible
one. The compoﬁtion has more of‘SaL
vator than of Brauwer. His own 1' por—.
trait in the gallery at- Oxford is capricious;
but touched with great force-and» character.

' Elfum m an epigram, that is not one of his worﬂ,
agrees with this opinion ,
‘ On a drunken Sot, ‘ '
His head does on his fhoulder lean,
His eyes are funk and hardly feen ; F
Who fees this Tot in his own colour
15 apt to fay," twas done by Fuller.
f It is much damaged, and was given to the Uni-
‘verﬁty by Dr. Clarke. ' A
His

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Painfers‘in the Reigniof Cigar!“ .11; ‘ _, 9

His altar—pieces ,at 4* “Magdalen. and Ad]:-
fouls colleges in Oxfordaretdefpicable.‘ At

Wiadham college is an altar-cloth. in-axﬁn.~
gular manner, and of merit: It is'juﬁ' brulh—
ed over for the lights and lhades, and‘ the
colours melted in with a hot iron. He
'painted too the inﬁde of St. Mary Abchui'ch
in Canon— firect. ‘ .

While Fuller was at Oxford he drew fe-
veral portraits, A and copied Dobfons decol-
lation of St. John, but varying the faces
from real perfons.,_ For Herodias, who held
the charger, he painted his own miﬁrefs ;
her mother for the old Woman receiving the
head in a bag, and the ruH-ian, who cut it
03‘, was a noted bruife‘r of that age. There
was beﬁdes a little boy with a torch; which
illuminated the whole picture. Fuller re-
ceived 60 pieces for it. ”In king James’s
catalogue is mentioned a picture by him,
reprefenting Fame and Honour treading
down Envy. " Colonel Seymour. 1- had a

‘ Mr. Azdd” zori wrote a Iatin poem in praife of 1t
1» Venue bouOht 1t, and from his (ah: I purchafed' 1t.

head

to Painters-in tbaReign of Charles H".-

head of Pierce, the carver, by Fuller. He—
was much employed'to' paint the great ta-
verns * in‘ London ; particularly the mitte-
in 'Fenchur‘chiﬁrcet, where he adorned all
the {ides of a great room in pannels, as was
then the falhion. The ﬁgures were as large
as life ; a Venus,~Satyr and ﬂeeping Cupid ;
a boy riding .a goat and another fallen down,
ofer the chimney; this was the heft part of
the performance, fays Vertue ; Saturn de-’
vouring a child, Mermry, Minerva, Diana,
Apollo ; and Bacchus, Venus, and Ceres em~
bracing; a young Silenus fallen down, and
holding a goblet, into which. a boy was
pouring wine ; the feafons between the Win-
dows,'and on the ceiling two angels fup-
portingamitre, in a large circle; this part
was very bad, and the colouring of the Sa-
tumtoo raw, and his ﬁgure too mufcular.
_He painted ﬁve very large pictures, the hif-
tory of the king's efcape after the battle of

' Sir P. Iiely feeing a portrait of Norris, the king’s
frame—maker, an old grey-headed man, ﬁnely painted
by Fuller, lamented that fuch a genius ﬂaould drown
his talents in wine.

4, ".Vorceﬂer;

Painter: in the Reign of Charles IL I t

Worceﬂcr; they cell a great fum, but mm
little efteemed.

. Vertue had feen two books with etchings
by Fuller; the ﬁrl’t, Caefar Ripa’s Emblems ;
fome of the plates by Fuller, others by
. Henry Cooke and Tempeﬁa. The fecond
was called, Libro da Difeg-nare : 8 or mini
the plates by our painter.

He died in Bloomfbury—fquare, July 17-,
1672, and left a fon, an ingenious but idle
man, according to Vertue, chieﬂy employed
in coachspainting. He led a diﬂ'olute life
and died young.

Fuller had one Scholar,-Charles Wood—
ﬁeld ; who entered under him at Oxford,
and ferved feven years. He generally
painted views, buildings, monuments, and
antiquities, but being as idle as his mafter’s
(on, often wanted neceiTaries. He died
fuddenly in his chair in the year 1724, at
the age of 75,

CORNELIUS BOLL,

A painter of whom I ﬁnd no particulars,
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1 :2 Painters‘ilz tube Reign bf C/mrlcs H’.

but that he made views of London before
the ﬁre, which proves that he was here
early it) thisreign if not in the lath, thefe
viems were at Sutton—place in Surrey, and-
reprefented Amndel-houfe, Somerfet—houfe
and .the Tower. Vertue, who faw them,
'fays, they were in a good'free tai’ce.

JOHN FREEMAN,

An hiﬁoric painter, was a rival of F ulleri,
which feems to have been his greatei’c glory.
He was thought to haVe (been poifoned in
theWef’t-indies, but however died in Eng-
land, after having been employed in paint-
ing fcenes for the theatre in- Covent-gar-
den. * '

REMEE. or REMIGIUS VAN
LEMPUT,

Was born at Antwerp, and arrived at fome
excellence by copying the works of V an-
dyck’ 5 he imitated'too with fuccefs the

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Painter: in thaERéign bf Cbarleill. 13
F lem1lh mafters, as Stone did the Italians- ;
and for the “works of Lely, Remée told that
maf’ter that he could copy them better than
Sir' Peter could himfelf. I have already
mentioned his ﬁnall piﬁure from Holbein,
of the two Henrys and their queens, and
, that his purchafe in king Charles’s fale of
the king on horIEback was taken from him
by a fuit at law, after he had demanded
I500 guineas for it at Antwerp and been
hidden 1000. The earl of Pomfret at Eal’ton
had a copy of Raphael’s Galatea by him
and at Penfhuri’t is a fmall whole length of
Francis earl of Bedford at. 48, 16 36, from
Vandyck. Mr. Stevens, hil’toriographer to
the king, had fome portraits of his family
painted by Remée. The latter had a well—
Chofen collection of prints and drawings. *
He died in Nov. 1675, and was buried in
the church-yard of Covent-garden, as his
fon Charles had been in 1651. His daugh-
ter was a paintrefs, and married to Thomas,
brother of

3* Graham, p. 458.

ROBERT

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1:4 Painter: in tie Mmf cam; II.

”ROBERT STREATER,

Who was appointed ferjeant painter at ”the
ref’toration. He was the fon of a painter
and born in Covent-garden, 1624, and
ﬁudied under Du Moulin. Streater did
nor conﬁne himfelf to any branch of his
art, but fucceeded belt in architecture, per-—
fixe‘élive, landfcape and {’till life. Graham
calls him the greatel’t and mof’t univer~
{a1 painter that ever England bred, but
with about as much judgment, as where he
lays that Streater’s being a good hiﬁorian
contributed not a little to his perfection in
that way of painting. He might as well
fay that reading the Rape of the Lock
would make one a good hair—cutter. I
. fhould rely more on Sanderfon, who {peaks
ing of landfcape, fays “ of our own nation
I know none more excellent but Streater,
who indeed is a compleat maf’ter therein, as
alfo in other arts of etching, * graving, and

*‘ He engraved a plate of the battle ofNafeby. The
plates for Sir Robert Stapleton’s Juvezial were deﬁgned
by Streater, Barlow and Danckers.

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Painter: in theRﬂgn of Charles H. 3 5

his work of architecture and perfpeétive a:
not a line but is true to the rules of art
and ‘fymmetry *.” And again, comparing
our own countrymen with foreigners, in
different branches, he adds, “- Streater in
all paintings 1-.” But from the few works
that I have feen of his hand, I can by no
means fubfcribe to thefe cncomiums: The
Theatre at Oxford, his principal perform—
ance, is a very mean ,one'; yet Streater was
as much commended for it, as by the au—
thors I have mentioned for his works in ge-
neral. One Robert Whitehall 1‘, a poetaﬂer
of that age, wrete a poem called Urania,
or a defcription of the painting at the top
of the Theatre at Oxford, which concluded
with thefe lines,

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That future ages muft confefs they owe
To Streater more than Michael Angelo.

At Oxford Streater painted 'too the chapel

"‘ Graphice, p. 19.

—[~ 11). 20.

I V. W'ood’s Athena, vol. ii. p. 786. A defcrip—
tion in profe of that painting is in the new Oxford.
gmrie».

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”1'6 Phimi‘inI‘I‘lr‘oi'Reign '(y‘iC'ber’IPS‘IIL
at'AliJ-fouls, exéept'the Refurr'eétion,’ which
is the work of Sir? James Tho’rhhilh - Ver-
tﬁe law a pié‘ture", which he“ "commends, of
a’Dr. Prnjean, * in' h'is'gown and long hair,
dne hand on a death’s head, and, the other
on [01116 books, with this infeript-ion, An'ii-
citia': ergo pinx'it Rbb. Streater :' Andiin the
poffeﬁion- of a captain Streater,‘ the portrait
of Robert by himfelf; of his brother Tho—
mas, by Lanktink; and of Thorr’ras's wife,
the daughter 'ofiiRemée, by herfelﬂ . Ver-
tue had alfo feen two-letters, direfted to fer-
jeaht Streater at his houfe in Long-acre ; the
ﬁrﬁ: from the f earl of Cheﬁerﬁeld dated
June I 3, 1678, mentioning a piétur’e of Mu;
-tius Sczevola, foriwhich he had paid him
20/. and offering him 160 I. if he would

* Vertue met with a prin‘t,‘ Opinion ﬁtting in a tree,
thus inferibed, Viro clarifs. Dno. F rancifco Prujeano,
.Medieo, omnium ,bdnarum artium & elegantiarum F air:
tori 8: admiratori fummo. D‘. D. D. H. Peacham.

+ This was earl Philip, mentioned in the Memoires
de Grammont. He was very handfom'e, and had re-
markably ﬁne hair. Lord Harrington has a gOOd head
of him by Sir Peter Lely, in which thefe circumﬂances
are obferved. I

‘paint

minim. i}: i‘beﬁeijﬁ' bf Charles II. ‘ 17
paint ﬁx {mall .piélures widi ﬁgures. His
lordlhip commends too the Rory of Rinaldo,
bought of Streater, but wilhes the idea of
the Hero had been taken from the duke of
Monm0uth or fome very handfome man;
The other letter was from the * earl of
Briﬂol at Wimbledon, about fome paintings '
to be done for him.

1 Other works of Streater, were cielings at
Whitehall, the war of the giants at Sir Ro-
bert Clayton’ s, Mofes and .Aaron at St.
Michael’s Cornhill, and all the fcenes at the
old playhoufe. He died in 1680, at the
age of 56 not long after being cut for the
ﬁone, though Charles II. had f0 much kinda

‘1 The famous George lord Digby. There is at Al-
thorp a fuit of arras with his arms, which he gave to his
daughter the counters of Sunderland, whom I mention
to reétify a common blunder . It 15 the portrait of this
lady, Anne Digby, who had light hair and a large
fquare face, that is among the beauties at Windfor,
arid not her mother—in- law Sachariﬂ'a, who had a round
face, and dark hair, and who probably was no beauty
in the reign of Charles II. .

1‘ Graham 46;. James II. had {even of his hand.
V. his catalogue.

VOL. III. B nefs

.18 Pamm in the mg” of caries II. '

net's for himas to fend for a fin-gem from
Patina perform the I'cqaeration. He had a
good colleétion of Italian books, .prints,
drawings and pié‘tures, which, on the death
of his fan in 1711, were fold by auétion.
Among them were the following by Streater
himd'elf, which at leaf: lhow the univerfality
of his talent; Lacy the player ; a hen and
chickens; two heads ; an eagle ; a landfcape
and ﬂowers 5 a large pattern of the king’s
arms; lfaac and Rebecca ; fruit-pieces;
Abraham and Ifaac 5 the nativity; Jacob’s
viﬁon ; Mary Magdalen ; building and
ﬁgures 3 two dogs. They fold, fays Vertue,
. for no great price; fame for ﬁve pounds,
fome for ten.

HENRY ANDERTON*,

Was difciple of Streater, whole manner he
followed in landfcape and {till—life. After-
wards», he travelled to Italy, and at his re-
turn took to portrait—painting, and having -
drawn the famous Mrs. Stuart, duchefs of

* V. Graham.
Richmond,

Puiimrr in the Reigan' Charles H: 19
Richmond, he was employed by the king
and court, and even interfered With the
.buﬁnefs of Sir Peter Lely. Anderton died
foon after the year 166 5d _

FRANCIS VANSON,,or
VANZOON,

was born at Antwerp, and learned of: his
father, a Hawer painter, but he Came early
into England, and marrying Streater’ s
niece, fucceeded to much of her Uncle’s
buﬁnefs. Vertue and Graham commend
the freedom of his pencil, but his fubjeélzs
were ill-chofen. He painted {till—life,-
oranges and lemons, plate,» damafk cur—
tains, cloths of gold, and that medley of
familiar objects that {trike the ignorant
Vulgar. In Streater’s fale, mentioned
above, were near thirty of Vanfon’s pieces,
which fold well; among others, was the
crown of England, and birds in water-
colours. Vanfon’s patron was the * earl of
Radnor,

“ Charles Bodville Robartes, fecond earl of Radnor,

who fucceeded his grandfather in 1684, and was lord
B 3 warden

9

ac ‘Paiﬁter: in the Reign of Charles II.

vRadnor, who at his houfe in St. James’s:
fquai‘e, had ,near eighteen or twenty of his
works, over doors and chimnies, &c. there
was one large piece, loaded with fruit,
ﬂowers, and dead game by him, and his
O‘Wn portrait in it, painted by Laguerre,
with a hawk on his ﬁt. The ﬂair—cafe of
that houfe was painted by Laguerre, and
the apartments were ornamented by the
principal artil’ts then living, as Edema,
Wyck, Roef’traten, Danckers, oI'd Griﬂﬁer,
young Vandevelde and Sybrecht. The col-
lection * was fold in 1724. Some of his
pictures were eight or nine feet high, and
in them he propofed to introduce all the me-

warden of the ﬁanneries, and by king George I. made
treaﬁlrer of the chambers. He died in 172 3.

‘ In this fale were fome capital pictures, as Rubens
and his miﬁrefs (I fuppofe it fhould be his wife, and that
it is the picture at Blenheim) fold for 1 3o guineas; the
martyrdom of St. Laurence by Vandyck, 65 ghineas ;
a fatyr with a woman milking a goat by jordan of Am:—
werp, x60 guineas ; and the family piece, which I have
mentioned in the life of Vandyck, bought by Mr.
Seawen for 5001.

dicinal

Painter: in the Reign of Charles II. 2!

dieinal plants in the phyﬁc garden at Chela
fea, but grew tired of the undertaking, be—-
fore he had compleatcd it. He lived chieﬂy”
in Long-acre, and laﬁly in St. Alban’s-ﬁreet,
where he died 1n the year 1700," at paft ﬁfty
years of age,

SAMUEL VAN HOOGSTRATEN,

Was another of thofe painters of {till—life,
a manner at that time in faﬂaion.- It was
hot known that he had been in England,
till Vertue difeovered it by a piéture of his
hand at a Tale in Covent-garden >17 30.
The ground reprefented a walnut-tree
board, with papers, pens, penknife: and
an Englifh almanack of the year 1663, a
gold medal, and the portrait of the author
in a, fuppofed ebony frame, long hair. in.-
clining to red, and his name, 5. V. Hoog-
ﬁraten. .The circumf’cance of the Eng-iii}:
almanack makes it probable that this pain-
ter was in England at leai’t in that year, and
'Vertue found it conﬁrmed by Houbraken

B 3 his

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22 Painter: in the Reign of Charles ‘11.

his ﬁholar, who in his lives * of the pain:
tars fays, that Hoogﬁraten was born at
Dordreeht in 1627, was ﬁrﬂ inﬁrué‘ted by
his father, and then by Rembrandt. That
he painted in various kinds, particularly
ﬁnall portraits, and was countenanced by the
emperor and king of Hungary. That he
tg'avclled to Italy, and came to England;
that he was author. of a book on painting,
called Zichtbare Waerelt gefelt wot-den, and
did at Dondrecht in 1678,

{BALTHAZAR VAN LEMENS,

Was among the ﬁrﬂ: that came over after
the reﬂioration, when a re-cﬁablifhed court
prOmifed the reviVal of arts, and confe-
quently advantage to artif’ts, but the poor
manwas as much difappointed as if he had
becn'ufeﬁal. to the court in it’s depreﬂion.
Hewas born at Antwerp in 1637, and is

~ ‘ There is 9.1? a an account of him in the {econd
volume of Defcamps, which was publifhed but a little
ume befhre the death of Venue.

{aid

Painter: in the Reign of Charles II. 2-3

faid * to have fucceeded in fmall hiltories;
but not being encouraged, and having a
fruitful invention and eafy pencil, his bell:
proﬁt was making iketches for. othersof his
profeﬁion. He lived to 1704., and was
buried in Weftminl’ter. His brother; who
'reﬁded at Bruﬂ'els, paimed a head of him.

ABRAHAM HONDIUS,

Was born at Rotterdam in.- 1638‘: when he
came to England or who was his matter is”
not known. His manner indeed feems hi3
own ; it was bold and free,- and except Ru-
bens and Snyder, few maﬂers have pointed
animals in to great a Pcyle. Though he
drewboth ﬁgures and landfcape, dogs and;
huntings were his favorite fubjeéts. Ver—
tue fays he was a man of humour, and that
one of his maxims wm, that the goods of

* Graham. A head of Charles I. by one Lemons
is mentioned in that king’s colle€tion p. 72. Whether
the father of this perfon, or whether a diﬁ’erent name;
as there is a ﬂight variation in the orthography, I do
not know. '~

B 4. other

d4 Painter: in the Reign of Charles II.

other men might be ufed as, our own; and
that ﬁnding another man’s wife of the fame
mind, he. took and kept her till fhe died ;_
after which he married. He lived on Lud-
gate-hill, but died of a fevere courfe of the
gent in 1.6 9 5 ,‘at the blackmoor;s head over—
againﬁ: Water-lane, Fleet-ﬁreet. One of his
ﬁrﬂ pié‘tures was the burning of Troy; and
he’frequently painted candle-lights. His
bell: was a dog-market, fold at Mr. Hal-
ﬁed’s Vauélion in 179.6: Above on l’teps
were men and women well executed. .My
father had two large'pieces of his hand, the
one a ”boar, the other a ﬂag-hunting, very
capital. Vertue mentions beﬁdes a land-
fcape painted in 1666: Diana. returned
I from hunting, and a bull-baiting, dated
1678. '

Jodocus Hondius, probably the grand-
father of Abraham, had been in England
before, and was an engraver of maps. He
executed fome of Speed’s, and * one of the
voyages ‘of Thomas Cavendifh and Sir.

' V. Britilh Librarian.

Francis

Painter: in the Reign of Gbarle: II. 25

Francis Drake rc‘mnd the globe. He alfo
engraved a genealogic chart of the Houfes
of York and Lancaf’ter, with the arms of
the knights of the garter to the year I 58 9; ,
drawn by Thomas Talbot; a map of the
Roman empire; another of the Holy—land ;
and particularly the celeftial and terref’triaI
globes, the largel’t that had then ever been
printed. I {hall fay nothing more of him
in this place (as the catalogue of Englifh
engravers I referve for a feparate volume)
but that he left aifon Henry, born in Lon-
don, whom I take for the father of‘ Abra-
ham Hondius, and who ﬁnifhed feveral

things that had been left imperfect by
Jodocus.

(a

Mr. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT 5*,

An Englifh painter of perfpeétive, landfcape
and architecture, in which laft fcience he
practiced too, having fome {bare in the
Royal-exchange. He died about 1671.

‘ Graham.

Sir

' 36 Rainier; in My Reign 42’ Charles II.

”sir PETER LELY,

Not only the moft capital painter of this
reign, but whofe works are admitted amongft
the claﬁics of the art, was born at Soeft in
Weﬁphalia, where his father, a captain of
foot, was in garrifon. His name was Van-
der Vaas, but being born at the Hague in a
perfumer’s fhop, the ﬁgn of the Lilly, he
received the appellation of captain Du Lys
01: Lely, which became the proper name of
the ion. He received his ﬁrft inﬁruétions
in painting from one De Grebber, and be-
gan with landfcape and hiﬂoric ﬁgures lefs
than life 5 but coming to England in 1641,
and feeing the works of Vandyck, he quit-
ted his former liyle and former fubjeéts,
and gave himfelf wholly to portraits in emu-
lation of that great man. His fuccefs was
confiderable, though not equal to his ambi—_
tion, if m nothing but Iimplicity, he fell
{hortofhis model, as Statius o: Claudian
did of Virgil. If Vandyck’s portraits are
often tame and ffﬁthkﬁ, at leaﬁ they are
natural. His laboured draperies ﬂow with
o eaﬁ;

Painter: in the Reign of C’barle: II. 2.7

cafe, and not a fold but is placed with
propriety, Lely fupplied the want of tafte
with Clinquant; his nymphs trail fringes
and embroidery through meadows and puri—
ing ﬁreams, Add, that Vandyck’s habits
are thofe of the times 5 Lely’s a fort of fan-
taﬂic nightsgowns, faﬂened with a ﬁngle.
pin *. The latter was in truth the ladies-
painter; and whether the age was improved
in beauty or in 1 ﬂattery, Lely’s women are
certainly much handfomer than thofe- of
Vandyck, They pleafe as much more, as
they evidently meanedi’ to pleafe 5 he caught
the reigning charaéter, and - I .

on animated canvafs Role

The ﬂeepy eye that ifpoke the melting foul.

I don’t know whether even in foftnefs of

 

* Your night-gown faﬁen’d with a ﬁngle pin;
F aney improv"d the wond’rous charms within.
L, M. W. Montagu.
1- This fufpicion is authorized by Mr. Dryden, who
fays, “ It was objeéted againﬂ a late noble painter,
that he drew many grateful pié‘tures, but few of them
were like: And this happened to him, beeaufe he
always ﬁndied himfelf more than thofe who {at to
him.” ‘

Pref. to fecond part of his mifcellanies.

the

 

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1% a

48 Pﬁﬁter: in the Reign of Charles II.

the ﬂelh he did not excell his predeceﬂ'or.
The beauties at Windfor are the court of
Paphos, and ought to be engraved for the
memoires of it’s charming hiﬂoriographer, *‘
count Hamilton. In the portraits of 1' men,
which he feldomer painted, Lely fcarce came
up to Sir Antony; yet there is a whole
length of Horatio lord Townfhend by the
former, at Rainham, which yields to few of
the latter.

At Lord N orthumberland's at Sion, is a
remarkable picture of King Charles I. hold-
ing a letter, directed, “ au roi monfeig-
neur,” and the Duke of York act. 14. pre-
fenting a penknife to him to cut the ﬁrings.
It was drawn at Hampton-court, when the
king was laﬁ there, by Mr. Lely, who

*' Author of the memoires de Grammont.

f I mutt except a very ﬁne head in my poffeiﬁon of
the earl of Sandwich ; it is painted with the greateﬁ
freedom and truth ; a half-length of an alderman
Leneve in his habit, one of the ﬁneit portraits I ever
faw, the hand is exquiﬁtely well painted; and a por-
trait of Cowley when a youth, which has a paftoral
'ﬁmplicity and beauty that are perfectly charaéteriﬂic.

W83

fainterrin rig; Reign of Cbarlqr'II. 29 .

Was * learneltly recommended to him. I
{hould have taken it for the hand of Fuller
0r Dobfon. It is certainly very T unlike
Sir Peter’s latter manner, and is ﬂronger
than his former. The king has none of the

" The author of the Abregé de la vie' des plus
fameux Peintres in two volumes quarto, 174.5, fays it
was at the recommendation of the earl of Pembroke. -
This piece of ignorance is pardonable in a Frenchman,
but not in Graham, from whom he borrowed it, and
who fpecifies that it was Philip earl of Pembroke, a
man too well known for the part he took, to leave it
probable that he either recommended a painter to his
abandoned mailer at that criﬁs, or that his recom-
mendation was‘fuccefsful. He was more likely to have
been concerned in the following paragraph, relating to
Cromwell.

1 Yet it is certainly by him : The earl of Northumf.
berland has Sir Peter’s receipt for it, the price 301.
There is a poem by Lovelace on this very picture, p. 61.
R. Symondes too mentions it, and the portraits of the
duke of York, and the lady Elizabeth, ﬁngle heads,
both MW at the earl of Northumberland’s at Sion ; the
firﬂ, very plealing, the other, as valuable, for being
the only one known of that princefs. There was ano-
ther of the duke of Glouceﬁer with a fountain by him,
which is wanting. Symondes adds, Sir Peter had 51..
for a ritratto ; to]. if down to the knees.

melancholy

,3o Painter: in tbe Rang Charles 11;,

melancholy grace which Vandyck alone, of
all his painters; always gave him. It has a
ﬂzerner countenance, and expreﬂive of the
tempeﬁs he had experienced.

Lely drew the riﬁng fun, as well as the
fetting. Captain Winde told Shefﬁeld duke
of Buckingham that Oliver certainly fat to
him, and while ﬁtting, faid to him, “ Mr.
Lely, I deﬁre you would ufe all your {kill
to paint my pié‘ture truly like me, and not
ﬂatter me at all; but remark all thefe
roughnefles, pimples, warts, and every thing
as you fee me, otherwife I never will pay a
farthing for it.”

It would be endle-fs to recapitulate the *3
works of this mailer : though fo many have
merit, few are admirable or curious enough
to be particularizcd. They are generally
portraits to the knees, and mof’t of them, as

I have faid, of ladies. 1' Few of his hiﬁoric
pieces

‘ Several by him and‘Vandyck are in the gallery at
Althorp, one of thofe enchanted fcenes which a thou-
fand circnmﬁances of hiflory and art endear to a pen-
ﬁve fpeé‘tator.

1* Waller, as galant a poet, as Lcly was a painter,
' i has

¥

Rainier: in :5: Reign of Charles II. 3L
pieces te‘knnwn ; at Windfor ' is a Mag?-
dalen, and a naked Venus alleep; the duke
of Devo‘nlhire has one, the ftory of Jupiter
and Europa ; lord Pomfret' had that of
Cimon and iphigenia, and at Burleigh is
Suﬁmna with the two Elders. In Streater s

has twice celebrated him; in the night-piece he
lays,
Mira can lay her beauty by,
Take no advantage of the eye,
@it allthat Lely’s art cantake,
And yet a thoufand captives make.

And in his verfes to a lady from whom he received a
poem he had loll,

The picture of fair Venus (that
For which men fay the goddefs fat)
Was loll, till Lely from your look
Again that glorious image took.

In Lovelace’s poems is one addreﬂ‘ed to Sir Peter,
who deﬁgned a little frontifpiece to the Elegies on
Lovelace’s death, printed at the end of his poems.
Faithome engraved that plate at Paris.

Charles Cotton wrote a poem to him on his pié'tlire

ofthe lady Ifabella Thynne. See Mr. Hawkins’ 5 cu- '

rious edition of Ifaac Walton’s Compleat Angler, in the
Life of Cotton. He was celebrated too by a Dutch
hard. John Vallenhove. Dcfcamps vol. ii 25 8.

fale

 

32 Painter: [h tbe Reign of Charla: 1‘1“.

fale was a Holy F amily; a {ketch in black
and white, which fold for ﬁve pounds ; and
Vertue mentions and commends another, a
Bacchanal of four or ﬁve naked boys, ﬁtting
on a tub, the wine running out; with his
mark 12.. Lens made a mezzotinto from
:1 Judgment of Paris by him; another was
of Sufanna and the Elders. ‘ His deﬁgns
are not more common; they are in Indian
ink, heightened With white. He fometimes
painted in crayons, and well; I have his
own head by himfelf: Mr. Methuen has
”Sir Peter’s and his family in oil. They're—
prefent a concert in a landfcape. A few
heads are'known by him in water-colours,
boldly and ﬁrongly painted: they generally
have his cypher to them.

He was knighted by Charles II. and
married a beautiful Englifh-woman of fa-
mily, but her name is not recorded. In
town he lived in Drury—lane, in the fummer
at Kew, * and always kept a handfome

table".

‘ See an account of the lord-keeper Guildford’s

fricndfhip to Sir Peter Lely and his family, particularly
in

Painter: in we Reign of Cbarles 11. 33

table. His * colleétion of piétures and draw-
ings was magniﬁcent; he» purchafed many
of Vandyck’s and the earl of Arundel’s ; and
the fecond Villiers pawned many to him,
that had remained of his father the duke
of Buckingh‘am’s. This collection, after
Sir Peter’s death, was fold by auction, 1‘
which 121?th forty days, and produced
26,0001. He left beﬁdes an eﬁate in land
of 9001. a year. 1 The drawings he had
collected may be known by his initial let-
ters P.~ L.

in relation to his houfe, in Roger North’s Life of the
Keeper. P p 299, 300, 311, &c. Roger North was
his executor, and guardian of his natural (on, who died
young.

* See a Lift of part of it, printed with the duke of
Buckingham’s colleélion by Bathoe. It mentions twen-
ty-ﬁx of Vandyck’s belt piétures.

1- The {ale began April 18, 1682, O. S. In the
conditions of {ale was fpeciﬁed that immediately upon
the tale of each piéture, the buyer ihould feal a con-
traét for payment, according to the cuflom in great
fales.

1 Sir Peter gave 501. towards the building of St.
Paul’s.

VOL. III. C . In

34. Painferrin the Reign of 054%: II.

In 1678 Lely enCOurage'd 'o‘n‘e *Freres,
alpainter of hif’tory, who had been in Italy,
tO‘eome"from Holland. He expected to be
EmpIOyed at Windfor, but finding Verrio
preferred, 1- returned to his own country.
'Sir "Peter had difguﬁ’s of the 1fame kind
from Simian Varelft, patronized by the duke
"of Buckingham; from Gafcar who was
broiight over by the duchefs of Portf-
m0uth ; and from the riﬁng merit of Knel-
ler, whom the French author I have men-
tioned, fets with little reafon far below Sir
Peter. Both had too little variety in airs
of heads; Kneller was bolder and. more
carelefs, Lely more delicate in'ﬁnifhing.
'The latter ‘fhowed by his pains how high
he could arrive : It is plain that if Sir God—
frey had painted much lefs and applied
more, he would have been the greater maf;
ter. This perhaps is as true a parallel, as

'* ‘See an account. of this-Theodore Freres in Def-
camps, vol. iii. p. 149.

+ Whilehe was here, one Thomas Hillrapaintcr,

and Robert Williams a mezzotinter, learned of him.

12 ' “the "

Wimxrﬂw; ,. .. A ‘ I "

Fainteujﬂ lb: Rezgwof Char-1e: II. 3 5

theFrenchauthor’s,’ who thinks that Bind-
ler. might have difputed: with Lely in the
beauty ofhisheadof hair. Defcamp‘s is {0
weak astoimpute’ Sir :Pcter’s death to his
jealOufy of-Knellcr, though he owns .it Was
almofl: fudden ; an account which is almoﬁ'.
nonfenfe, efpecially as he adds that Lely’s
phyﬁcian, who knew not the caqfelof'ghisjrna-
lady, heightened it by repetitions of Kneller’s
‘ fuccefs.‘ It was an extraordinary kind 10f
fudden death! ’

Sir Peter Lely * died of an apoplexy as
—‘he

* The celebrated aﬁronomer and inifer Robert
Hooke was ﬁrﬂ placed with Sir Peter Lely, but {0011
Equitted hirn, frmn not being able to bear the fmell of
the oil-colours. But though he gave up painting, his
mechanic genius turnedl among other ﬁudies, to archi-

' teﬂure. He gave a plan for rebuilding London after
the ﬁre ; but though it was not accepted, he got a large
: farm of money,,as,one_0f thecorntniﬂionem, frOmrthe
‘ perfons who claimed the feveral diitributions of the
; ground, and this money he locked up in an iron cheﬁ
' for thirty years. I have heard that he deﬁgned- the
1 college of Phyﬁcians- , he certainly did Aﬂr’s hofpital
1 near Hoxton. He was very able, very fordid, cynical,
1 Wronghcaded and whithﬁcal. Proof enough of the laﬁ,
‘ C 2 was

' 36 Painter: in the Reign qf Charles .II.

he was drawing the duchefs of Somerfet,
4680, and in the 63d year of his age. He ‘
.iwas buried in the church of Covent—garden,
where is a monument with his buft, carved
"by Gibbons, and a * latin epitaph by F lat-
man. '

“JOSEPH BUCKSHORN,

A Dutchman, was fcholar of Lely, whofe
works he copied in great perfection, and
fome of Vandyck’s, particularly the earl of
Straﬂ'ord, which was in the pOITeHion of
Watfon earl of Rockingham. Vertue men-
tions the portraits of Mr. Davenant and
his wife, {on of Sir William, by Buckfhorn.
He painted draperies for Sir Peter, and
dying at the age of 3 5 was buried at St.
Martin’s.

was his maintaining that Ovid’s Metamorphoﬁs was an ‘
allegoric account of earthquakes. See the hiltory of his
other qualities in the Biographia Britannica, vol. iv.

’ See it in Graham, p. 44.7.

JOHN

Painter: 2‘7: the Reign‘ of Cinder II.‘ 3.7
jOHN GREENHILLﬁF
The roof: promiﬁng of Lely’s fcholars, was
born at 1- Salifbury of‘a good family, and
at twenty copied Vandyck’s picture of Kil—
ligrew with the dog, f0 well that it was~
millaken for the original. 1: The print of
:Sir William Davenant, with his nofe ﬂat-
rtened, is taken from a painting of Green-
lhill. His heads in crayons were much ad-
: mired, and that he fometimes engraved, aP‘.
gpears from a print of his brother Henry, a.
’ merchant of Salifbury, done by him in.
l 1667 ; it has a long infcription in latin. At

:ﬁrl’c he was very laborious, but becoming
racquainted with the players, he fell into a

“ The French author calls him Greenﬁll ; the public
ais much obliged to perfons who write lives of rhofe
awhofe very names they cannot fpell !

Jr He painted a whole length of Dr. Seth Ward bilhop
z of Salifbury, as chancellor of the garter, which was
jrplaced in the town-hall there.

1 General Cholmondeley has a ﬁne half length of a
) young man in armour by Greenhill, in which the ﬂyles
xof both Vandyck and Lely are very difcernible.

C 3 debauched

38‘. 15223219” 2?? maﬁa; 611111431111.
debauched courfe of life, and coming home
late one ﬁght from the Vine tavern; he
tumbled into a kennel in Long-acre, and
being carried to Parrey Walton’s, the pain-
fer, ih Lincoln’ S-inn- ﬁelds, where he lodg—
ed,_*died in his bed that night, 111 the
ﬂower of his age. ‘He was buried at St.
GileS’s, and :Mrs. Behn, who admired his
15511611 and turn to poetry, WrOte an elegy on
hisdeath.

‘ Graham tells a ﬁlly fiory of Lely’s be-
{13g '1' jealous of him, and refuﬁng to let
Greehhill fee him paint, till the fcholar
procured his mailer to draw his wife’ 5 pic'—
ture, and f’toOd behind him while he drew
it. The improbability of this tale 1s heigh-
tened by an anecdote which Walton told
Vertue; or if true, Sir Peter’s generoﬁty
appears the greater, he fettling forty pounds
a year on Greenhill’s widow, who was left:
with 2feveral children and in great’indigence.

3" He died May 19, 1676.
' 1~ Yet it appears from Mr. Beal e’ s pocket-book, that
Sir Peter was a little infec‘ted with that failing. V p
129 of this volume.

She

m'smuA A

PM?“ in the Reign of Cbarle: H. 3.9
She was a very handfome woman; but did
not long enjoy that bounty, dying mad in a»
{hort time after her hulband.

DAVENPO'RT,

Another Scholar of Lcly, and good imitator
of his manner, lived afterwards with his fel-.
low dif’ciple Greenhill; and befides painting
had a talent for muﬁc and a good voice.
He died in Salifbury—court, in the reign of
king William, aged about 50.

PROSPER HENRY LANKRINK,ale

0f German extraétion, born about 1.6 28 ;
hisfather, a foldier of fortune, brought his
wife and this his only {on into the Nether?
lands, and obtaining a commiﬂion there,
died at Antwerp. The widow deﬁgned. the
boy for a monk, but his inclination to paint.-
ing dichvering itfelf early, he was permit-y
ted to follow his genius. His beft leITons
he obtained in the academy at Antwerp,
and from the colleétion of Mynheer Van
Lyan. The youth made a good choice,

 

4" V. Graham}.
C 4, chieﬂy

4.0 . Paintér: 131’ the Reign qf Charles II.

chieﬂydrawing after the deﬁgns of Salvator
Rofa. On his mother’s death, from whom
he inherited a {mall fortune, he came to,
England, .and was patronized by Sir Ed-
ward Spragge, and Sir William Williams,
whofe h0ufe was ﬁlled with his works; but
being burned down,‘not much remains of
Lankrink’s hand, he having paﬁéd great part
of his time in that gentleman’s fervice. His
landfcapes are much commended. Sir Pe~
ter Lely employed him for his back-
grounds. A ﬁngle ceiling of his was at
Mr. Kent’s at Caufham, in Wiltihire near
Bath.“ He fometimes drew from the life,
and imitated the manner of Titian, in fmall
ﬁgures for his landfcapes. Some of thofe
were in the hands of his patrons, Mr. Henly,
Mr. Trevor, Mr. Auf’ten, and Mr. Hewitt,
the latter of whom had a good colleétion of
piétures. So had Lankrink himfelf, and of
drawings, prints and models. He bought
much at Lely’s fale, for which he borrowed
money of Mr. Auﬁen ; to difcharge which
debt Lankrink’s collet‘tion was feized after
his death and fold. He went deep into the

pleafures

Painter: in. the Reign of Charles II; \41

pleafures of that age, grew idle and died in
1692 in Covent-garde‘n, and was buried at
his own requeﬁ: under the porch of that
church. A limning of his head was in
Streater’s fale.

JOHN BAPTIST GASPARS,

Was born at Antwerp, and ﬂudied under
Thomas Willeborts Boﬂ'aert, a difciple of
* Rubens. Baptiﬁ: Gafpars, (who muff not
be confounded with Baptiﬂeronoyer, the
ﬂower-painter).came into England during
the civil war, and entered into the fervicc‘
of general Lambert; upon the reﬁoration
he was employed by Sir Peter Lely to paint
his pof’tures, and was known by the name of
Lely’s Baptif’c. ‘He had the fame buﬁnefs
under Riley a‘hd Sir Godfrey Kneller. He
drew well, and make good deﬁgns for
tapeﬁry. The portrait of Charles II. in
Painter’s—hall, and another of the fame
prince, with mathematical inllruments in

* Graham by miflake (rays of Vandyck. There is a

ﬁne little holy family at Houghton by Willeborts, from.
a large one of Rubens.

the

4a, Paimm in the Reign of Cbmlalf.‘

the hall) (if. St. .Bauhakomewk hofpitaly Were,
painwdrby this {Baptiﬁg who died 'in 1691?;
andiwas buried at; St. }ames’s.

JOHN VANDER EYDEN,*

A pﬁrtrait painter of Bruﬁ‘els, copied and
painted draperies for Sir Peter, till marry-
ing he fettled in Northamptonfhire, where
he was much employed, particularly by the
egrls of lintlancl and Gginfborough and the
lord Sherard, a1 whofe home he died about

1697, and was buried at Staplefort in Lei~
eef’cerﬂaire.

Mrs.',A'NNE KILLIGREVV,

Daughtrr of Dr. H'ehry Killigrew Jr maﬁer
of the Savoy, and one of the Prebendaries
ofWeI’cminf’cer, was born in St. Martin’s-
laneglLondon, a little Before" the reﬁoration.

3“ Graham. This was not Vander-Eydcn, {o famous
for his neat manner of painting {mall views of ﬁreets
and houfes.

1- See an account of him in Wood’s Athenze, vol. ii.
N1. 103 5.

Her

‘3.

Paint?” in I‘bt‘Rcigu’of Gbarlés'ﬁ‘: 43‘
Her family was remarkable. for it’s ldyalty,’
aecompliﬂiments, and wit, and this Young-~
lady promifed to be one of it’s fair-cit orna~
‘ ments. Antony Wood fays the was a grace
for beauty, and a ‘mufe for wit. Dryden
has celebrated her genius for painting and
- poetry in a' very long ode, in ‘which the rich
ﬁream of his numbers has hurried along
with it all' that his luxuriant fancy pro-
duced in his way; it is an harmonious hy-s'
perbole compofed of the fall of Adam, Are-4
thufa, Vei’tal Virgins, Diana, Cupid, Noah’s»
ark, the Pleiades, the valley of Jehofaphat
and the laf’t Afﬁzes: Yet Anteny Wood
aﬂ'ures us “ there is nOthing fpoken of her,
which {he was not equal to, if Not {uperior g”
and his proof is as wife as his aﬁ'ertion, for,"
fays he, “ if there had not been more true
hii’tory in her praifes, than cempliment, hat
father would never have fuﬁ'ered them to
pafs the prefs.” She was maid of honm‘art to
the duchefs of York, and died of the {mall’-
pox in 168 5, in the 2 5th year of her age.
Her poems were publilhed after her death
in a thin quarto, with a print of her, taken

,.
I I’Ol‘ﬂ

44 ' Winter? 21': i1): Reigﬁiof Charler'll.

from her portrait draWn by herfelf, which;
with the leave of the authors I have quoted,
is in a much better {‘tyle than her poetry,
and evidently in the manner of Sir Peter
Lely. She drew the piétures of James II.
and of her miﬂzrefs, Mary of Modena; fome
pieces of l’till-life and of hiﬁory~; three of
the latter 1116 has recorded in 'her own
poems, St. John in the wildernefs, Herodias
with the head of that faint, and two of Diana’s
nymphs. At admiral Killigrew’s fale I727,
‘ were the following pieces by her hand ; Ve~
nus and Adonis; a Satyr playing on a pipe ;
Judith and Holofernes 5 a woman’s head;
theyGnaces dreﬂing Venus; and her own
portrait: “ Thefe pictures, fays Vertue, I
faw but can fay little.”

She was buried in the chapel of the Sa—
voy, where is a monument to her memory,
with a latin epitaph, which, with the tran-
ﬂation, ‘may be feen preﬁxed to her poems,
and in Ballard’s Memoires of learned ladies,

p. .340.

—-———BUST-

‘

Painlrr: in’tﬂgRez'gn 0f Cbarléx'ﬂ. 45

BUSTLEiRﬁ“

 

A Dutch painter of hif’tory and portraits.

Mr. Elfum of the Temple, whofe tracts on
painting I have mentioned, had a picture
of three boors painted by this man, the land-
' {cape behind by Lankrink, and a little dog .
on one ﬁde by Hondius.

DANIEL BOON,

Of the fame country, a droll painter, which
turn he meaned to exprefs both in his large
and fmall pieces. He lived to about the
year 1700. There is a mezzotinto of him
playing on a violin.

ISAAC PALING,+

Another Dutchman, Scholar of Abraham
Vander Tempe}, was many years in Eng.
land, and practiced portrait-painting. He
returned to his own country in 1682.

4* From Graham, p. 405, as i; the following article.
1‘ From Houbraken’s Lives of the Painters.

HENRY

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HENR‘YPAERT or PE ART,

Eifeiple ofiBai'low, and afterWards of Henry
iStone, ﬁ‘om whomhe contraéted a talent for
copying. He exerted this on molt of the
‘hiﬁorit pieces of the royal colleEtion. >1
(fuppofe he was an indifferent performer, for
Graham fays he wanted a warmth and: beauty
of colouring, and that his copies were better
than his portraits. Vertue mentions a half
length of Jamesearl of Northampton, copied
from a head by Paert, who then lived in
.PalL—mall. * He died 1n I6 97, or,,98.

HENRY DANKERa

Of the Hague, was bred an engraver, but
. by the perfuaﬁon of his brother John, who
wasapainterof hiﬂory, he turnedgto land-
fcape,,and having ﬁndied fome time inltaly,
came ,to.England, where he was counte~
nanced by Charle; II. and .ernployed in
drawing views of t e royal palaces, and the

° There is a print from his painting of 8. Morocco

thaﬁkdor. 1682.
{ea--

Quintana inﬂow-pf Charm-ﬂ. 4.3

{ea-ports of England and Wales. Of his
ﬁrIt profeﬂiOn therelis a head after Titian, _
with his name _Henricus Dankers Hagienﬁs
fculpﬁt. Of the latter, were feveral in the
royal colleétion 5 James II. 'had no"fe'wfer*
than twenty-eight 1" views and landfcapes
by him 5 one of them was a Hiding piece
before a pit‘ture of Nell Gwyn. In the pub-
lick dining-room at VVindfor is the main
riage of St. Catherine by him. In Lord
Radnor’s fale were other views of ‘Windfor,
PlymOuth, Penzance, &C. and his irname
fDankers, F. 1678; I679. He made be-
ﬁdes feveral deﬁgns for Hollar.‘ "Being a
Roman Catholic, he left England in the
time of the Popifhplot, and died lbon- after
at Amfterdam i. ,

‘* V. his cataiogue p'ubliihed by;Bathoe.

1» One I fuppofe of thefe, the beginning ofGreen-
w ieh, is nowrin a {mall clofet hythe king’ 5' bedchambcr
at St. James’ 5

T Graham

PARREY

48 Painter: in t]?! Reign of Charley II.
PARREY WALTO/N,”e
Though a difciple of Walker, was little
more than journeyman to the arts. He
underﬂood hands, and having the care of
the royal collection, repaired feveral pictures
in it. His fon was continued in the fame
employment, and had an apartment in So-
merfet-houfe. The copy, which is at St.
James’s, of the Cyclops by Luca Giordano at
Houghton,was the work of the latter. The

father painted {till-life; and died about the
year 1700.

THOMAS FLATMAN,

Another inﬁance of the union of poetry
and T painting, and of a. profefﬁon that
feldom accords with either, was bred at the
Inner-temple, but I believe neither made a
ﬁgure nor {laid long there; yet among Ver-

* Graham.
1- F Iatman received a mourning—ring with a diamOnd
worth 100/. for his poem on the death of Lord Oﬂbry.

tue’s

sz'utm'in 'téeReigzz-af warm-11;:- +2
tue’s MSS. I ﬁnd an, epigram written by
Mr. Qldys on Flatman’s three, vocations, as
if he had [hone in all, though in truth he
dil’cinguiﬂied himfelf only in miniature ;

Should Flatman for his client ﬁrain the laws,
The Painter gives fome colour to the caufe :-
Should Critics cenfure what the Poet writ, ‘l‘
The Pleader quits him at the bar of Wit.

_ Mr. Tooke, fchOol—mafter of the Charter-

houfe, had a head of his father by F latman,
which was fo well painted, thatVertue took
it for Cooper’s ; and lord Oxford had ano-

* ther limning ofa young knight of the Bath

in a rich habit,'dated 1661, and with the

.' painter’s initial letter F. which was f0 maf—
: terly, that Vertue pronounces F latman equal
; to Hofkins, and next to Cooper.

' Mrs. HOadIey, ﬁrl’c wife of the late bifh0p

:of Wincheﬁer, and a mif’trefs of painting

* Lord Rocheﬁer treated him very feverely in the

, following lines,

Not that flow drudge in fwift Pindaric {’crains,
Flatman, who Cowley imitates with, pains,
And rides a jaded mufe, whipt, with loofe reins:

VOL. III. D herfelf,

50 Painter: in tbe Reign qf Charla II.

herfelf, ha‘d Flatman’s own head by him.
Another ‘3 was ﬁnifhed by Mrs. Beale, Dec.
1681, as appears by her hufband’s pocket-
book, from which I fhall hereafter give fe-
veral other extraéts. The fame perfon fays,
“ Mr. Flatman borrowed of my wife her
copy of lady Northumberland’s piﬁure from
Sir Peter Lely.” ‘

_ Flatman was born in Alderfgate-ﬂreet,
and educated in Wykeham’s fchool near
‘Vincheﬁer, and in 1654. was eleéted fellow
of New-college, but left Oxford without
taking a degree. Some of his poems were
publiihed in a volume with his name ; others
with fome ﬁngular circumf’tances relating to
them, are mentioned by Antony 1- Wood.
Flatman had a fmall eﬁate at Tifhton near
Dis in Norfolk, and dying Dec. 8, 1688,
was buried in St. Bride’s London, where his
eldeft {on had been interred before him 5 his

‘ There is a mezzotinto of Flatman holding a draw-
ing of Charles II. en medaille; and a fmaller head,
tainted by H ayls, and neatly engraved by R. White.

1* Athena: vo'l. ii. p. 825.

father

Paint?” in the Reign of Charles-II. 3r;
father a clerk in Chancery, and then foura
fcore furviving him. ,

CLAUDE LE FEVRE,

A man of indigent circumﬁances, {’tudied
ﬁrlt in the palace of Fontainbleau where he
Was born in 16 3 3, and then at Paris under
Le Sueur and Le Brun, the latter of Whom
. advifed him to adhere to portraits, for which
he had a particular talent. The French
author, * from whom I tranfcribe, fays that
in that f’tyle he equalled the belt mailers of
that country, and that palling into England
he was reckoned a fecond V andyck. If he
was thought fo then, it is entirely forgotten‘
Both Graham and Vertue knew fo little of
him, that the ﬁrﬂ: mentions him not, and
the latter confounded him with Valentine
Le Fevre of Bruﬂ'els, who never was here ;
' yet mentions a mezzotint of Alexandre
Boudan imprimeur du roi, done at Paris
by Sarabe, the eyes of which were printed

" Abregé de la Vie des plus fameux Peintres vol. ii.
i P' 329‘
D 2 in

5’2 Painter: in tbe Reign—of diaries ‘II:
in blue and the face and hands in def-h.-

colour. From hence I conclude that Grac-
ham made another millake in his account

of
LB ‘F'E'VR’E DE V ENISE,‘

Whofe chril’tian name was Roland, and ‘
who he fays gained the favour of prince
Rupert by a fecret of ﬁaining marble. As
that prince invented mezzotinto, I conclude
it was Claude who learned it of his high-
nefs, during his intercourfe with him, and
communicated it to Sarabe at Paris. Le
Fevre de V enife certainly was in England
and died here, as Claude did. Vertue fays
that his Le Fevre painted chieﬂy portraits
and hif’tories in ﬁnall, in the manner of
Vandyck, the latter of which were not al-
ways very decent. As I am deﬁrous of ad-
jui’ting thepretenﬁons of the three Le Fevres,
and fhould be unwilling to attribute to
either of the wrong what his model’ty might
make him decline, I mean the laft article,
I‘ am inclined to bellow the nudities on Ro- ‘
,7: _. .. land;

..\

Painiersiz‘iz )1»? Reign bf cam: I I'. 53
land, qui fe plaifoit, fays * my author“?
defﬁner en caricatureslles charaéteres & les
temperamens de ceux qu’il conoiﬂ‘oit, imi-
tant en cela Annibal Caracci.-—-One knows
what fort of temper-amen:.Annibalipainted. f

Claude died in 1675 at 'the age of forty-
two ; Roland died in Bear-ﬂreet nearLeicefl
ter-ﬁelds in 1677, about the 69th year of

. his age, and was buried at St. Martin’s.

Mercier, painter to the late prince of
Wales, bought at an auétion the portrait
of Le Fevre, in a fpotted-furr-cap, with a.
pallet in his hand; I fuppofe painted by

i himfelf; and at Burlington-houfe is the pic...
‘ ture of Rouﬂ'eau the painter, by Le Fevre 5
I fuppofe Roland.

JOHN HAYLS,-,[-

1 Remarkable for copying Vandyck well, and
. for being a rival of Lely. A portrait'of
V himfelf

*‘ Abregé de la Vie des plus fameux Peintres vol. ii.
13. 331.
1 So he writes his name on the portrait of Flatman.

D3 In

54. Painterr'iu the Reign of Cbarle: II.

himfelf in water—colours, purchafed by coo
lonel Seymour at Mr. Bryan’s fale, ill drawn
but {’trongly coloured, induced Vertue to
think that Lely was no: the only perfon
whom Hayls had an ambition to rival, but
that this was a ﬁrﬂ: effay in competition with
Cooper. However I ﬁnd by a note in a
different volume, that fome thought this
miniature was by Hoikins. At Woburn is
the portrait of colonel John Ruﬂ'el, (of
whom there is a better piéture in the Me-
moires de Grammont) third ion of Francis
earl of Bedford ; and another of Lady Diana,
{econd daughter of William the ﬁrﬁ: duke of
that houfe, both by Hayls, and he drew
the father of fecretary Pepys. He lived in
Southampton-meet, Bloomfbury, and dying
there fuddenly in 167 9, was buried in St.
Martin’s.

In painter’s-hall is a St. Sebai’tian and a portrait of Mr.
Morgan, by one Hayes ; as I ﬁnd no other mention of
this man, it may be a miﬂake for Hayls: fo Vertue
fuppofcd.

HENRY

Painter: in the Reign of Charles II. 5 5

HENRY GASCAR,

Another competitor of Sir Peter, was a
French portrait-painter, patronized by the
duchefs of Portfmouth, and in compliment
to her much encouraged. Graham {peaks
of his tawdry ﬁyle, which was more the
fault of the age than of the painter. The
pomp of Louis XIV. infeéted Europe: and
Gafcar, whole bulinelh was to pleafe, fuc-
ceeded as well in Italy as he had in Eng-
land, from whence he carried above 10,0001.
At Chel’terton Vertue faw a head in armour
of Edmund Verney, with Gafcar’s name to
it. His bell: performance was a half length
at lord Pomfret’s of Philip earl of Pem-
broke, which he drew by Realth, by order
of his patronefs, whole ﬁlter lord Pembroke
had married. I fuppofe this deﬁre of hav—
ing her brother—in-law’s picture was dated
before a quarrel {he had with him for ill-
ufage of her ﬁlter: The duchefs threatened
to complain to the king; the earl toldher,
if lhe did, he would fet her upon her
D 4 head

5'6 Painter: in ﬁne Reign of Cbarle: II;

head at Charing- crofs, and {how the nation
it’s. grievance.

LSIMON VARELST,‘

A real ornament of Charles’s reign, and one
of the few who’have arrived at capital ex-
cellence in that branch of the art, was a
Dutch ﬂower-painter. It is n01; certain in
what year he' arrived in England; his works
were extremely admired, and his prices the
greateft that had been known in this mun--
try. The duke of Buckingham patronized
him, but having too much wit to be only:
beneﬁcent, and perceiving the poor man to
be immoderately vain, he piqued him to
attempt portraits. Varelft thinking nothing
impofﬁble to his pencil, fell into the fnare,‘
and drew the duke himfelf, but crouded it
f0 much with fruits and fun-ﬂowers, that
the‘king, to whom it was fhowed, took it
for a ﬂower-piece. However, as it {ome-
times happens to wifer buﬂ‘bons than Varelf’t,
he was laughed at till he was admired, and
Si: Peter Lely himfelf became the real fa-

criﬁce

Pdfntér: in the Reigh of‘C‘lmrie: ll; 57-,

Criﬁce' to the jeft: he loll: much, of his bu-i‘;
ﬁnefsrand retired to Kew, whilﬂ: Varell’t en...
groﬂ'ed the falhion, and for one ‘half length
was paid an hundred and ten pounds..
His portraits were , exceedingly laboured,
and ﬁnilhed with the fame delicacy as his
ﬂowers, which he continued to «introduce
into them. Lord chancellor Shaftfbﬂryrgo--
ing to ﬁt, was received by him with his
hat on. Don’t you know me? {aid the
peer. Yes, replied the painter, you are'my
lord chancellor. .5. And do ‘you know me?
I am Varell’t. The king can make any-
man chancellor, but he can make nobody
a Varelf’c. Shaftfbury was difgul’ced and fat;
to Greenhill. In 1680 Varelil, his brother
Harman, Henny and Parmenriere, all: pain-j
ters, went to Paris, but {laid not long. In
1685 Varelﬁ was a witnefs on the divorce\
between the duke and duchefs of Norfolk;
one who had married V arelﬁ’s half lifter
was brought to fet aﬁde his evidence, and
depofcd his having been mad and conﬁned.
He was fo, but not much more than others

of his profeﬂion have been; his lunacy'Was
felt:

58 Painters in the Reign of Charles II.

{elf-admiratiOn ; he called himfelf the * God
of Flowers; and went to Whitehall, faying.
he wanted to converfe with the king for
two or three hours: Being repulfed, he
faid, “ He is king of England, I am king
of painting, why {hould not we converfe
together familiarly?” He fhowed an hif—
toric piece on which he had laboured twenty
years, and boafted that it contained the {e-
veral manners and excellencies of Raphael,
Titian, Rubens. and Vandyck. When Va—
relﬁ, Kneller and Jervafev have been f0 mad
with vanity, to what a degree of phrenzy
had Raphael pretenﬁons !—-—But he was mo-
deft. V arelft was lhut up towards. the end
of his life, but recovered his fenfes at lafi,
not hi! genius, and lived to a great age,
certainly as late as 1710, and died in Suf-
folk-Erect. In king James’s collection were
" When fam’d Varellt this little wondrr drew,

Flora vouchfaf’d the growing work to view:

Finding the painter’s fcience at a (land,

The goddefs fuatch’d the pencil from his hand,

And finilhing the piece, {he fmiling (aid,

Behold one work of mine that ne’er thall fade.

PRIOR.

a
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h:

I
ﬁt-
,...

Painter: in the Reign if Charla: II. 59

ﬁx of' his hand, the king, queen, and duchelis
of Portfmouth, half lengths, a landfcape, (
ﬂowers, and fruit: In lord Pomfret’s were
nine ﬂower-pieces. ’

_ His brother Harman V arell’c lived fome
time at Vienna, till the Turks beﬁeged it
'in 1683. He painted hif’cory, fruit and
ﬂowers, and dying about 1700 was buried
in St. Andrew’s Holbourn. He left a {on
of his profeﬂion called Cornelius, and a
very accomplifhed daughter, who painted
in oil, and drew {mall hiltories, portraits
both in large and ﬁnall, underﬂood muﬁc,
and {poke Latin, German, Italian, and other
languages.

ANTONIO VERRIO,

A Neapolitan; an excellent painter for the
fort of fubjeéts on which he was employed,
that is, without much invention, and with
lefs tal‘te, his exuberant pencil was ready at ~
pouring out gods, goddeffes, kings, ems
perors and triumphs, over thofe public furs
faces on which the eye neirer rel’cs long

enough

— 6o Painlers‘ in‘tbe Reign ’qf Charles II.

enough to criticize, "and where one fhoulcl
lac—forty to place the works of a better maf;
ter, I mean, Ceilings and flair-cafes. The
New Teﬁament or the Roman Hiflory coft
him' nothing but ultra—marine; that and
marble columns, and marble {’ceps he never
fpare‘d. He ﬁrl’t fettled in France, and
painted the high altar of the Carmelites at
Thouloufe, which is defcribed in Du Puy’s
Traité fur la Peinture p. 219. Thoul.
1699.

Charles II. having a mind to revive
the manufacture of tapef‘try at Mortlack,
which had been interrupted by the civil
war, fent for Verrio to England ; but chang-
ing his purpofe, conﬁgned over Windfor to
his pencil. The king was induced to this
by feeing fome of his painting at Lord Ar-
l‘ingt‘on’s, at the end of St. James’s—park,
where at prefent {lands Buckingham-houfe.
The ﬁrft picture Verrio drew for the king
was his majel‘ty in naval triumph, now in
the public dining-room in the caftle. He
executed moﬁ of the ceilings there, one
whole ﬁde of St. George’s—hall, and the

chapel.

Painter: in thﬂeign 6f Charleen: 6.!"

chapel. On the ceiling of the former he.
has pit‘tured Antony earl of Shaftfbury, in
the character of Faction, difperﬁng libels;
as in another place he revenged a private
quarrel ‘with the houfe—keeper Mrs. Mar-
riot, by borrowing her ugly face for one
of the furies. With {till greater impro-.
priety he has introduced himfelf, Sir God-z
frey Kneller, and Bap. May, furveyor of
the works, in long periwigs, as fpeftators
of Chriﬁ healing the ﬁck. He is recorded
as operator of all thefe gawdy works in a.
large infcription over the tribune at the end
of the hall ; *

Antonius Verrio Neapolitanns
non ignobili ﬂirpe natus .
ad honorem Dei,
Augui’tiﬂimi Regis Caroli fecundi
Ct

Sané‘ti Georgii

Molem hanc felicifﬁmﬁ menu

Dccoravit.

The king paid him generoziﬁj'. Vertue
met with a memorandum of monies he had

- * There is a defcription of St. George’s-hall in the
Mufae Anglicanx.
, received

52 Painter: in tbe Rrig'ﬁiy‘ Charles II.

received for his performances * at Windfor:

As the comparifon of prices in different ages

may be one of the molt ufeful parts of this

Work, and as it is remembered what Annibal

Caracci received for his glorious labour in

the Farnefe palace at Rome, it will not per— ~
haps be thought tedious if I fet down this

account 5

1 An account of moneys paid for painting
done in Windfor-caﬁle for his majei’ty, by
Signior Verrio ﬁnce July 1676,

King’s guard-chamber —- — 300
King’s prefence-chamber — 200
Privie-chamber — — zoo

Ogeen’s drawing-room — —— 25o
Qleen’s bed-chamber ~— —— IOO
King’s great bed-chamber -— 120
King’s little bed-chamber — 5o

. , .
ngsdrawmg—room -- — 250

00000000“
ooooooooik

‘9 St. George’s-hall is not fpeciﬁed ; I fuppofe it was
done afterwards.

1- Copied, fay: Vertue, from ahalf {beet of paper
fairly writ in a hand of the time.

1 King's

Painter: in tbe Reign af-Cbarle: II . 6 3

5-3.41.

King’s cloﬂ'et —— -- 50 o 0
King’s eating-room —- ‘— 250 o o
Queen’s long gallery —- —- 250 o o
QJeen’s chappel — —- 110 o 0
King’s privie back-Peaks -- 100 0 o
.The king’s gratuity -— —-- 200 o o
The king’s carved {fairs — 150 o o
@een’s privie-chamber '—- 200 o 0
King’s guard-chamber-ﬂairs —- 200 o o
@een’s prefence—chamber — 200 o o
(@een’s great ﬁairs -— — 200 o o
@een’s guard-chamber —— 200 o o
Privy—gallery —- —- 9.00 o o
Court-yard - -- 200 o o
Penﬁon at Midfummer, 1680 — 100 o o
A gratuity of 200 guineas -— 215 8 4.
Penﬁon at Chril’cmas, I680 -- 100 o o
Penﬁon at Midfummer I681 —- 100 o o
The king’s chappel — -- 900 o o
o o

Over-work in the chappel -— 15o

 

5545 3 4

64 Painter: :1: the Rag” of Charles II.
On the back of this paper ,
His majeﬁy’s gift; 'a gold chain 200 o o

More, by the duke of Alba} 60 o 9

' marle for a ceiling .__

More,’ {my lord of Eifex -—» 4o_ 0 or

More from Mr. Montague of

- . 1 800 o 0
London . -— --
More of Mr. Montague of}
. 1,300 o o /

Woodcutt —- ——

In all 6845 8 4.-
The king’s bounty did not [top here ,-

Verrio had a place of mafter gardiner, and a:

lodging at the end of the park, now Carle-
tOn-houfe. He was expenfive, and kept a

great table, and often preﬁ'ed the king for
money with a freedom which his majel’cy’s-

own franknefs indulged. Once at Hampton-
cOurt,-when he had but 'lately received an
advance of a‘thoufand pounds, he'found the-
king in fuch a circle that he could not ap-
proach; He called out, Sire, I deﬁre the
favour of {peaking to your majeﬁy.-—-VVell,
Vcrrio, {aid the king, what is your requeﬂz?

‘ Money,

1:. is. J.’

Painhm 1'12 {be Reign qf Charles II. 6 5

Money, Sir, I am f0 fhort 1n call1,_thatI am
not able to pay my workmen, and your ma-
ief’ty and I have learned by experience, that
pedlars and painters cannot give credit long.
The king liniled, and {aid he had but lately
ordered him 1000!. Yes, Sir, replied he,
but that was [con paid away, and I have no
gold left. At that rate, faid the king, you
would fpend more than I do, to maintain my
family. True, anfwered Verrio, but does
your majefly keep an open table as I do?

He gave the defigns for the large equef-
trian picture of that monarch in the hall at
Chelfea- college, but 1t was ﬁnifhed by Cook,
and preﬁnted by Lord Ranelagh.
, On the acceﬁion of James II. Verrio was
aoai n employed at Windfor in Wolfey’ 5
Tomb houfe, then deflined for a Romifh-
chapel. He painted» that king and feveral
of his courtiers in the hofpital of Chrif’t-
church London. Among other portraits
there is Dr. Hawes, a phyﬁcian, Vertue
faw the original head from whence he tran-
ﬂated it into the great piece, which Verrio
prcfented to the hofpital. He painted too
at that of St. Bartholomew.

VOL. III. E The

‘6 Painter: in the Reign of Charles H:

The revolution was by no means agree.
able to Verrio’s religion or principles. He
quitted his ‘place, and even reﬁerd to Wark
for king William." From that time he was
for {time years employed at the lord Eire-'-
ter’s at Burleigh, and afterwards at Chatti-
worth‘. At the former he painted feverai
chambers, which are reckoned among his
5311 Works. He has placed his own por-
trait in the room where he reprefented the
hiitory' of Mars and Venus; and for the
Bacchus beftriding a hogfhead, he has, ac-
cording to his ufual liberty, * borrowed the
countenance of a dean, with whom he was
at variance. At Chatfwo’rth is much of his
hand. The altar-piece in the chapel is the
bef’t piece I ever law of his ; the fubjeét, the
incredulity of St. Thomas. He was em:-
ployed too at 1' Lowther-hall, but the houfe
has been burnt. At laﬂ: by perfuaﬁon of lord

Exeter

“ It was more excufable, that when his patron obliged
him to infert a pope in a proceiiion not very honorable
to the Romith religion, he added the portrait of the
archbifhop of Canterbury then living.

1- In Nichols’s collection of poems, vol. v. 37, is

one by Tickell, called Oxford, and inferibed to lord
Lonfdale,

Public” in £6! Reign #62472331}. 6“} \
Exeter he eondefeended to ferve king W11“
ham, and was fem: to Hamptomcourt, where
among other things he painted the great {fair-
cafe, and as illres i£ he had. ﬁnned. it out of
principle. His eyes failing him; * queen
Anne gave him a pehfioo of dog! a year for
life, but he did not enjoy #199 , dying at
Hamptohmourt in 1797. ,

Scheffers of Utrecht was employed
Verrio for twentyeﬁve years. At his ﬁg
arrival he had worked for piétureq Jellers.
Lanfcron was another paintet it; Verrio’s
fervice, and afﬁﬁed him feven or eioht years
at Windfor.

Lonfdale, in which is this couplet, at once defcriptiw
of Verrio’s paintings, and worthy of being prefgfygdin
the bathos :
Such art as this adorns year Lowther’s hall,
Where feafiing gods caroufe upon the wall,

* It was not only this decay, but his death, that pm.
vented his being employed at Blenheim,~as probebly
was intended, for the author of fome verfes addreffed to
Verrio in the ﬁxth volume of Dryden’s miibellanies,
carried his prophetic imagination fo far as to behold the
duke’s triumphs reprefented there by our painter; who
died before the houfe was built.

E 2 JAMES

'68 13111774419515?! 2W- Reigﬂlef Charles 11-
;aivfﬁs H UYSMAN or
111%ij "NH.” 0 U .S M A N:*

39172:; both at Antwerp in 16 56 and ﬁndied
hnder Bakerel a fchol’ar of Rubens, and '
é’ompetrtor of Vandyck‘. Bakerel was a poet
. tho“ and a fatyri'c’ one, and having writ an
inveétive againﬁ the Jefuits, was obliged to
y DHuyﬁhan, deprived of his matter, came
England and painted both hil’tory and
portrairts. In the latter he rivalled Sir Peter
Lely, and with reafon. His pit‘tur'e of lady
Byron over the chimney 1n the beauty- room
at Windfor, Is at leall: as highly ﬁniihed, and
'SOloure'd with as much force as Sir Peter’s
marks in that chamber, tho’ the 1' lady who
. fat

‘ Graham.
1- I ﬁnd in Vertue’s notes that he had been told it is
‘not lady Byron, but lady Bellaﬂis. If it was the lady
Bellaﬂis, who was miﬂrefs to king James, it becomes
more valuable, and while Charles paid his brother the
compliment of enrolling the latter’s mif’trefs with his
own, he tacitly inﬁnuatcd how much better a mile he
had himfelf. I have an unﬁnifhed head by Cooper of
lung James' 5 lady Bellaﬂis, which is hillorically plain

Huyiman’ s

Painter: m the Reign of Charla II 6 9

fat for it is the lead handforrie of the fet.
His Cupids were admired; himfelf was moﬁ
partial to his picture of queen Catherine.
There is a mezzotinto from it, reprefenting
her like St. Catherine. King James * had
another In the drefs of a Ihepherdefs, and
there IS a third in Painter’ s-hall. He created
himfelf the queen ’s painter, and to juﬂzify it,
made her {it for every Madonna or Venus
that he drew. His capital work was over
the altar of her chapel at St. James’s, new
the French church, He died in.16_96, and
was buried in St. James’s—church.

Vertue mentions another painter of the
fame furname, whom he calls 'Michlaei"
Huyfman of Mecklin, and fays he lived at
Antwerp; that he ﬁudied the Italians, and
painted landfcapes in their manner, which
he adorned with buildings and animals.

Huyfman’s piéture has certainly fome refemblancel'to
the mezzotinto of her from Sir Peter Lely.

”‘ See his catalogue. There too: is‘mentioned the
duchefs of Richmond in man’s apparel by Huyfman.‘ .It
is a pretty piéture, now at Kenﬁngton: the drefs'is that
of a Cavalier about the time of the civil war, buff with

he ribbands.

E3 He

7o Painter: w III: Reign qf Charles IL

He’ came to England, and brought two
141'ge landfcapes, which he kept to Ihew what
he coulddo; for thefe he had frames richly
carved by Gibbons, and gave the latter two
pictures in exchange. In a fale in 1743
Vertue faw three fmall landfcapes and ﬁgures
by him of great merit. On the revolution
he returned ' to Antwerp, and died there
3707, aged near 70.

MICHAEL WRIGHT

Was "born in S‘cb‘t’lah’d, but came to London
at the age of '1'6 or '17, and proved no bad
portrait-painter." In 1672 he drew for Sir
Robert Vyn‘e‘r ‘a whole length of prince Ru-
lert 1n ar'md'dr with a large wig. On the
Batik he Wrote the prince 5 titles at length
ma his own name thus, Jo. Michael Wright
Lbhd.‘pi&or'regit1s 'pihxit 1672. The earl
of Oxford had a half length by him of Sir.
Edward Turner, fon’of Sir Edward, fpeaker.
of the 'Houfc‘df‘Commons and chief baron.
:On that ‘he Called himfelf 101'. Michael
Wright Aﬁm,1672, but on the portraits
of

Painter; in the Reign of Charla: II. 7 x
of the judges in Guildhall, he wrote Storm.
Sir Peter Lely was to have drawn \ thefc
pictures, but reﬁlling to wait on the judge:
at their own chambers, Wright got the bu-
ﬁnefs, and received 601. for each piece.
Two of his moi’t admired works were a high-
land laird and an Irilh tory, whole lengths
' in their proper dreﬂ’es, of which feveral co-
pies were made. At Windfor‘is his large
piﬂure of John Lacy the comedian in three
different characters, Parfon Scruple in the
Cheats, Sandy in the Taming of the Shrew,
and Monﬁeur de Vice in the Country Cap-
tain. It was painted in .1675, and feveral
copies taken from it. Be Nice drew aduke
of Cambridge fon of king‘James, * perhaps
the two children who bore that title ; one of
them is in the king’s clofet at St. James’s.
He painted tooa cieling in the king’s bed~
chamber at Whitehall. -

Wright attended Roger Palmer earl of
Caﬁlemain, as I’teward of his houfhold, on

° V. catalogue.

E 4 his

1
i7 2‘ Painter: in the Reign 'of‘Cbark: II.
his embaffy to the P0pe, * and at his re-.
turn publifhed a pompous account of it,
ﬁrl’c 1n lt‘zilianl then in Englifh. File~ had
been in Italy before; At his rfethrrt from
the embaﬁ'y he was mortiﬁed to ‘ﬁnd that
Sir Godfrey Kneller had engroITed molt of
his .bulinefs, _ In 1700‘,‘ upon a vacancy of
the king’s painter in Scotland, he follicitetl
to ﬁreteed, but a {hop-keeper was preferred
——'and in truth Wright had not much pre-
tenlions to favour in that reign 4— yet as
good as his fellow—labourer Tate, whowrote
’ 'It is‘ Well khoWn With what negleét ahd indiffe-
rence this embamMp’received by the Pope. The
Jefuits endeavoured to c0mpenfate for the Pontiff‘s con-
tempt: they treated C altlemaine in a molt magniﬁcent
m inner, and all the arts were called in to demonflrate
their zeal, and compliment the bigot- monarch. But
the good fathers “ ere unlucky 1n fome of their inf-crip-
tions, which furnilhed ample matter for ridicule; par-
ticularly , {peagking of James, they laid, Ala: Camla ad.
1311:} , and that the former might chufe an Embaﬂlaclpr
1x orthy of fending to heaven, He de/mtcbed In} Zrotlzer.

\". Hill. of England in tivo Volumes. Vol. ii. p. 113.
gth edition 1723

b

panegyrics

ﬁtting”: :72 the Rezgn of Charles II. 7 3

......

baﬂ'y, and yet was made Poet Laiiréat to
king William. erandi mentions Wright ,
“ ‘Michaele * Rita Inglefe nOtato nel cata-
logo degli Academici di Roma nel- anno
1688. ”3 Wright left a fon at Rome,w wI—lio
‘ was mafter of languaoes and died there,
had a nephew too of ;his own. name, ed11-
cated at Rome, but who fettled 111. Ireland,
where he had fo much fuccefs, that he gain—
ed 9091. 11.12.5111 year, and Was alWays paid
§ 101. a head. Pooley and Magdalen Smith
V1ne, the latter and
young Wright were 11vals. :- 171 ' , ~
W1ight the uncle had 21' ﬁne collection of
gems and coins, which were purchafed by
-Sir Hans Sloane after his death, which hap-
pened about the year I 700, in James— eet

 

* Lord Pelham has a {mall three- quarters of Mrs.
"C'ley pole, on which is written M. Ritus. Eec. It is an
' emblematic piece, the 111113ng 6? Which 1s'very 'obfcu‘rc
but highly ﬁ‘mfhed. There 15 21110th eitaéﬂyxtherfame,
except that 11 wants the painter’ 5 name, at Eaﬁ Horﬂey,
formerly the feat of SiriEdward Nicholas.

:Clovent-

74 Painter: 1'74 the Reign .of Clark: 11-

vaent-gardcn. He is buried in that
ChLIISIh-

EDMUND ASHFIELDﬁé

Scholar of Wright, was .well defcended, and

‘painted both 'in oil;and crayons, in which
‘he made great improvements for multiply-
ing the tints. ‘He inPtruéted Lutterel, who
added the invention of uﬁng crayons on
copper-plates. .‘Vertue had feen ahead of
'Sir John Bennet, afterwards lord Oﬁuiﬁon,
painted neatly‘by A ‘ eld, tho’ not in a good
'manner: but at Bl?!‘ igh is a fma‘ﬂ portrait
of a lady Herbert by him highly ﬁniihed
and well painted.

PETER RO~ES'TRA‘TEN,+

Was born at Harlem in 1627, and learned
of Francis Hals, .whofe daughter he married,
and whofe manner for fome time he follow-
ed 3 but afterwards taking to {till-life,

3 Graham.
1‘ Ibid.
-1 I painted

Painter: in the Reign of Charles II. 7 5

painted little elfe. Sir Peter 1.er was very
kind * to him at his arrival in England,
and introduced him to king Charles, but it
'does not appear that he was encouraged at
court, nothing 'of his hand appearing in the
palaces or royal catalogues 5 he found more ‘
.countenance from the nobility. There is a.
good picture by him at Kiveton, the feat of
the duke of Leeds, one- at Chatfworth, and
two were at lord Pomfi‘et’s. , At lord Rad--
nor‘s {ale 'in 17 24. were three «or four of his
pictures, particularly one reprefenting the
crown, fcepter .and globe. V He was particu:
larly fond of drawing wrought plate. At
thc_countefs of Guildford’s at VValdefharc
in Kent ate Tome of his works. I have
one, well coloured, containing .an’ ivory

* Defcamps fays, that Ler growing jealous of Roe-
ﬁraten, propofed to him a partition of the art ; portraits
were to be monopolized by Lely ; all other branches
were to be ceded to Roeﬁraten, whofe works were to
be vaunted by Lely, and for which by thefe means he
received 40 and 50 guineas. It is very improbable that
an artiﬁ lhould relinquifh that branch of his buﬁnefs,

which fuch a propofal told him he was moﬂ c 1pable of
executing.

tankard,

kin-4cm -§‘ :— ‘4: -

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76 Painfer: in the Reign 0] Charles II;

tankard,’fome ﬁgures in brbnze, and a medal
of Charles II. appendant to a blue 'ribband.
It is certain that he arrived early in this
rdgnﬁnhehntﬁsﬁpatmeﬁmofLmh
don and went lame for the ref’c of his life.
Graham fays, that having promifed to {how
a whole length by Francis Hals to a friend,
and the latter growing impatient, he called
his wife, who was'his maﬁer’s daughter, and
faid, “ there is ‘a whole length by’ Hals.”
Thefe are triﬂing circumﬁances, but what
more important happens in‘fedentary and re-
tiredlives P They are at leaf’t as well worth
relating as the witticjfms of the old philofo-
phers. Roeﬁ'r‘aten died in 1698, in the fame
ﬁreet with Michael Wright, and was buried
in the fame church. " .

GERARD

Painter: 2'12 136: Reign of Clierlgrll. Z7

“ 9.. 2,
’aE, a?

GERARD soEsT, ic’aliled,‘
ZOUST,

was born in Weﬁphalia, and came to Eng-
land probably before the reitoration, * for
Sanderfon mentions him ass—then of ei’cae
bliihed reputation. By what I have feen
of his hand, particularly his ,_ own head at
Houghton, he was an admirable mafter. It
is animated with truth and nature; round,
bold, yet highly ﬁnifhed. _- His draperies
were often of fattin, in which he imitated
the manner of Terburgh, a Dutch painter
of converfations, but enlarged his ideas, on
feeing Vandyck. He was inliﬂed among
the rivals of Sir Peter Lely; the number

9* Printed in 1685. Deferibing a piéture of a huf—
band and wife, he fays, “ It mui’t be valued an orna-
ment to the dyning-room ; being beﬁdes well known
to be the art of Sowﬁ’s handyAwork, and he a maﬁer of
fuz’ﬁciencie.” Graphiec p. 43. At Welbeck is Lucy
lady Hollis by him, 1-557. ,

of‘

979‘ mm m“. :5: My? Cbarfés H.-
of them is fuﬂicient honour to the latter.
Emulation feldom unites a whole profeﬂion
againﬂ. one, Unlefs he is clearly their fu-
perior. Soeft is commended by Vertue and
Graham for his portraits of men : Both con-—
fefs' that his take was too Dutch and un-
graceful, and his humour too rough to
plcafe the fofter fex. The gentle manners
of Sir Peter carried them all from his com- '
petite!) Soeﬂ: who was capricious, ﬂovenly
and covetous, often want to the door him-
felf, and if he was not in a humour to draw
thofe who came to ﬁt, or was employed in
the meaner ofﬁces of his family, he would
aft the {ervantr and fay his mailer was not
at home: his drefs made him eaﬁly mif-
taken. Once when he lived in Curﬁtor’s-
alley, he admitted two ladies, but quitted
the houfe himfelﬁ—His wife was obliged
to fay, that ﬁnce he could not pleafe the
ladies, he would draw no more of them.
Greenhill carried * VVildt the painter to
Soei’t, who then lived at the corner houfe

’ Of this perfon I ﬁnd no other account.

in

Painter? in 15% Mg» (fﬂa‘rfer II." 79
in- Hoﬁbomm‘ow, and he ﬂiOWed them a:
man and horfe large as life on which he
was then at— work, but of hurried? with the
public and: the fairer half of it. In Jers-
vafe’s fale was a- portrait of Mr. John Nor-
» tis by Soeﬂ, which IcrvaTe' eﬁeemed fo
much, that he copied it more than once,
0n the back was ivritten‘1685, but that
Was a miﬂake ; 8961’: died in Feb. 1681; I
haire a head by hiin, I'bel'ieve: of Gtiﬂie‘re;
it has a mantle of purple fattin admirably
coloured. At the Royal Society is a head
of Dr. John Wallis ; at Draper’S~hall Shel-
don Lord Mayor, whole length; in the
audit-room of Chrii’t—church Oxford a head
of Fuller bifhop of Lincoln ; and at Wim.
pole was a good double half—length of John
earl of Bridgwater, and Grace his counters,
ﬁtting. Vertue defcribes another head of
Sir Francis Throckmorton, in a full wig
and a eravat tied with a ribband, and the
painter 5 name ; a ﬁne head of Loggan the
engraver ; and another which he commends
extremely ofa gentleman in a full dark-peni—

wig,

go P45711473 £5474 £47372 JKﬁCbarZeJJI.

wig, and. Pink- coloured drgtperyl on the
liraumng frame was written, :53, J 5 . ,.

ull'

Gerard Soelt pinxit Anno Domini i667

ebdomeda P‘e'ntecol’tes atatis 3o.
.. . ,-r._ , ..-.. j: . Price of}Pl&u1—c 3 l
= f . Frame 16:

_ Vertue {aw too almall oval painted on
paper and pafted on board, the portrait
of a Mr. Thompfon. Soelt was not only
an able matter himfelf, but formed Mr
Riley. __

_

 

‘ Reader,

Another fcholar of Soeft, was fon of a
clergyman and born at Maidl’tone in. Kent.
He lived fometime at a nobleman’s in the
Weft of England, and at laft died poor in
the Charter—h0ufe.

JOHN LOTEN,

A Dutch landfcape—painter, lived here long
and painted much; chieﬂy glades, dark
h oaken

Painter: in the Reign of Charles II. 8 I

oaken groves, land {torms and water falls ;
and in .Swifferland, where he refidecl too,‘
he drew many views of the Alps. He died
in London about 1680. In king ‘James’s
catalogue, where are mentioned three of
his landfcapes, he is called Loaton; except
this little notice, all the rel’t is taken from
Graham, as are the three next articles en—
itirely. '

THOMAS‘MANBY,

An Englifh landfcape—painter, who had l’cu—
died in Italy, from whence he brought a col-
lection of‘ pictures that were fold in the Ban—
quetting-houfe. He lived ten years after
the preceding. '

NICOLAS BYER,

Born at Drontheim in Norway, painted both
hiﬁory and portraits. He was employed
by Sir William Temple for three or four
years, at his houfe at Shene near Richmond

VOL. III. F where

8 2 Painters bribe Reign of Charles ll.

where he died. All that Graham knew re—
markable relating to him was, that he was
the'ﬁrﬁ man buried in St. Clement’s Danes
after it was re-built, which ”had been found-
ed by his country—men.

ADAM COLON],

Of Roterdam, lived many years in Eng-_
land, and was famous for fmall ﬁgures,
, country-wakes, cattle, ﬁre-pieces, &c. He
copied many piEtures of Baﬂ'an, particularly
tlfgl'e in the royal collection. He died in
London 1685, at the age of 51, and was
buried in St. Martin’s.

His fon Henry Adrian Coloni, was in~
f’truéted by his father and by his brother-
in-law Vandief’c, and drew well. He {ome—
times painted in the landfcapes of the latter,
and imitated Salvator Rofa. He was bu-
ried near his father-in 1701, at the age—

of 33..

JOHN

Painter: in ibe Reign of Charles II. 3-3

JOHN GRIFFIERE,

An agreable painter, called the gentleman
of Utrecht, was born at Aml’terdam in‘
1.645, and placed apprentice to a carpenter,
a profeﬂion not at all fuiting his inclina-
tion. He knew he did not like to be a
carpenter, but had not difcovered his own
bent. He quitted his matter, and was put
to fchool, but becoming acquainted with
a lad who was learning to paint earthem
ware, young Grifﬁere was ﬁruck with the
fcience tho’ in fo rude a form, and paffecl
his time in aﬁiﬁing his friend inf’tead of
going to fchool, yet returning regularly at
night as if he had been there. This de-
ception however could not long impofe ort
his father, who prudently yielded to the
force of the boy’s genius, but while he
gratiﬁed it, hoped to fecure him a profef-
from, and bound him to the fame maf’cer
with his friend the tyle-painter. Griﬁiere imé
proved fo much even in that coarfe fchool,
that he was placed with a painter of ﬂowers;

F 2 and

84." Painter: in the Reign of Charles II.

and then inl’tr'uéted by one Roland Rog-
man, whofe landfcapes were efleemed. He

received occaﬁonal leﬂ‘ons too from Adrian
Vandevelde, Ruyfdale, and Rembrandt,

whofe peculiarity of ftyle, , and facility of .

glory, acquired rather by a bold trick of
extravagant chiaro fcuro than by genius,
captivated the young painter, and tempted
him to purfue that manner. But Rogman
diﬂ'uaded him, and Grifﬁere tho’ often in-
dulging his taﬁe, feems to have been ﬁxed
by his mailer to landfcapes, which he exe-

_' cuted with riclmefs and neat colouring, and
enlivened with fmall ﬁgures, cattle and

buildings.,

When he quitted Rogman and Utrecht,
he went to Roterdam, and foon after the
ﬁre of London, came to England, married
and fettled here ; received fome inﬁruétions
from Loten, but eaﬁly excelled him. He
drew fame views of London, Italian ruins,
and profpeé‘ts on the Rhine. Such mixed
fcenes of rivers and rich country were his
favorite fubjeéts. He bought a yacht, em-
barked with his family and his pencils, and
1 '_ pafTed

 

 

Painters in :17; Reign of Charles II, .8 5

.palTed his whole time on the Thames, bee
tween Windfor, Greenwich, Gravefend, 85c.
Beﬁdes thefe views, he excelled in copying
Italian and Flemifh mailers, particularly Po—
lenburgh, Teniers, Hondecooter, Rembrandt
and Ruyfdale.

After Praying here many years, he failed
in his own yacht to Roterdam, but being
tempted by a pilot who was coming to
England, fuddenly embarked again ‘ for this
country, but was fhi'pwrecked, and loft his
whole cargo except a little gold which his

daughter had wrapped in a leathern girdle. -

He remained in Holland ten or twelve
years: and returning to England, ﬁruck
upon a {and-bank, Where he was eight days
before he could get oﬂ’. This new calamity
cured him of his pallion for living on the
water. He-took a houfe in Millbank,
where he lived feveral years, and died in
1718, aged above 72. * In lord Qrford’s

collection

* His piélures were fold in Caveat-garden after his
death, with a colleé‘tion by Italian and Flemifh maf-
ters, brought from Holland by his {on Robert. Among

F 3 the

ﬁt

.86i Painters it; the Reign of Charles II.

' Colleé‘tion are two pretty piélzures by him, a

feavport and a landfcape. He etched fome
{mall plates of birds and beafts from draw-
ings of Barlow, and ﬁve large half-{beet
plates of birds in a fet of twelve 5 the other
feven were done by Fr. ”Place.

Robert Griﬂiere, his fon, born in Eng-
land 1688, was bred under his father, and
made good progrefs in the art. He was in
Ireland when his father was Ihipwrecked,
and going to him in Holland, imitated his
manner of painting and that of Sachtleven.
John Griﬂiere, a good copyiﬁ of Claud
pertain, and who died in Pall—mall a few
years ago, was, Ibelieve, the younger fon
of old Grifﬁere.

the father’s paintings were fomc in imitation of the
diﬁ’erent manners of Elaheimer, Polenburgh, Pouﬁ’m,
Wouverman, Berghem, Titian, Salvator Rofu, Gerard
Dou, Balfan,£uido, and Vanderwerﬂ‘e. In the fame
catalogue is mentioned a piece in water-colours by

l’olenbnrgh.

GERARD

Annual-.. .‘m u... .. _

PM?” in the Reign of Charles- Ii. ’87]

GERARD E'DEVMjA,

Born according to V ertue in Frieﬂand ;
Graham fays at Argi’terdam, was fcholar of
Everding, whofe manner he followed, and
of whom there is a fmall book of moun—
tainous profEeéts, containing {Ome 5'0 plates.
Edema came to England about 1670, and
made voyags both ,to Norway and New-
foundland, to collect fubjeéts for his pictures
among thofe wildneﬂ‘es of nature; he de-
lighting in rocky views, falls of water, and ‘
fcenes of horrour. For ﬁgures and build3
ings he had no talent, and where he wanted
them was afﬁfted by Wyck. The latter,
Vandevelde and Edema lived Tome time at
Mount-Edgeumbe with Sir Richard, grand-
father of the prefent lord Edgcumbe, and
painted feveral views of the mount in con— "
cert, which are now in a manner decayed}
Edema’s temper was not fo unfociable as
his genius; he loved the bottle, and died
of it at Richmond about the year 1700 ;
Graham fays in the 40th year of his age,

F 4 which

88 Painter: in the Reign of Charla; II.

which probably is af‘miﬁake, if he came to
England in I67o—he could not have learnt
much of Everding, if he quitted his fchool
at ten years old.

. f . as
THOMAS STEVENSON,

Scholar of Aggas,1' who painted landfcape
in oil, ﬁgures and architecture in diﬁemper.
The latter is only a digniﬁed expreﬂion,
ufed by Graham, for {eerie-painting, even
in which kind, he owns, Stevenfon’s works
grew defpifed. The deﬁgns for the pa—
ilgeant, called Goldfmith’s Jubilee, on the
mayoralty of Sir Robert Vyner, were given
by this man.

' Aggas, whom I have mentioned in the ﬁrll volume
p, 2.67, was little more than a fcene—painter, for which
reafon I do not give him a feparate article here. All
the account we have of him is from Graham.

PHILIP

Painter: in tbaReign' of Charles II. « 89

PHILIP DUV_,AL

A French- -man, {ludied under Le Brun, and
afte1wards in Italy the Venetian fchool.
He came to Englaﬂd, and painted feVeral
pictures. One for, the famous Mrs. Stuart
duchefs of Richmond reprefented Venus
receiving armour from Vulcan for her ion.
The head— drefs of the goddefs, her brace-
lets, and the Cu’p1ds had more the air of.
Verf 11lles than Latium. _ On the anvil was
the painter’s name, and the date 167 2. Not-
withf’tanding the good breeding of his pen-11
cil, Duval was unfuccefsful, but Mr. Boyle
ﬁnding in him fome knowledge _of chy-
miflry, in which he had hurt his ﬁnall for-
tune, generouﬂy allowed him an’annuity
of 501. On the death of his patron Duval
fell into great indigence, and at laI’t became
difordered in his fenfes. He was buried at
St. Martin’s about 1709.

EDWARD

90 .Pm'imw in the Reign of Charles II.

EDWARD HAWKER,

Succeeded Sir Peter Lely in his houfe, not
in his reputation. He .painted a whole.
length of the duke oPGrafton, from which
there is a. print, and a head of Sir Dudley
North ; was a poor knight of VVindfor, and
was living in 172-1, aged fourfcore. The
reader mutt excufe fuch brief or triﬂing ar~
,ticles. This work is but an effay towards '~
the hiﬁory of our arts: All kind of notices
are inferted to lead to farther difcoveries,
oand if a nobler compendium {hall be form-
ed, Iwillingly reﬁgn fuch minutim to ob-
Iivion.

SkJOHN GAWDIH

Born ‘in 1639, was deaf and dumb, but
compenfated part of thefe misfortunes by a
talent for painting, in which he was not un—
ﬁlccei'sful. He had learned of Lely, intend—
ing it for his profeﬁion, but on the death of

2 ins

<3W'F

-Pa£:#zr: in the Reign q‘f Chartés'n. .9;

his elder brother, only continued it for his
amufement.

B. FLESSHIER,

Another obfcure painter mentioned by
Vertue, and a frame—maker too, lived in
the Strand near the Fountain—tavern; yet
probably was not a very bad performer, as
a large piece of fruit painted by him was
thought worthy of a place in Sir Peter Lely’s
colleﬂion. Another was in that of king
Charles the ﬁrﬁ. At lord Dyfart’s at Ham—
houfe are a landfcape and two pretty fmall
{ea-pieces by Flefshier.

BENEDETTO GENARO,

Nephew and difciple of Guercino, and if
that is much merit, refembling him in his
works. He imitated his uncle’s extrava—
gantly dark ﬂiades, caught the roundnefs
of his ﬂefh, but with a difagreable lividnefs,
and poffefi'ed at leaf’t as much grace‘ and
dignity. He came to England, and was

one

g; Y 3' ‘ s 1"“..2
'3 4
. as; —

92 Painters. in tbe Reigma” Charla: II.
one of; Charles’s painters, Inkin’gJames’s

catalogue are mentioned twelve :_of his
hand; molt of them, I'believe, are {till in i

the royal palaces, four are a_t Windfor. At
Chatfworth are three by him ; and Lot and
his daughters at COudray. His Hercules
and 'Deianira was fold at Streater’s fale for
117." He was born in 1633, and died in
1715. It is faid that he had a mil’trefs of
Whom he was jealous, and whom he would
not quer the King to fec.’

GAlSPAR NETSCHER,*

Painted {mall portraits in oil. He was in—
vited to England by Sir William Temple
’ and

’ He was difciple of Terburg, who Defeamps and
the French author that I {hall mention prefently, fay,
was in England ; and the former adds that he received
immenfe prices for his works, and that he twice drew
king William III. However, his ﬂay here was cer-
tainly fhort, and as I cannot point out any of his
works, it is not worth while to give him a feparate ar-
ticle. His life may be feen in the authors 1 quote.

Teniers,

  
 

v ,
wiedhanWﬁe-vw ‘ ‘ “ "a .

> y ’ ‘

Painter: in theign of Charles IL, 91.

: and recommended, to the king, but *ﬁaid
not long here." Vertue mentions ﬁve of his
pictures: one, a lady anda dog, ,vvithhis
name to it: another of a lady, her hands
joined, oval on topper: the third, lord
Berkeley of Stratton, his lady, and a fer—
-vant, in one piece, dated 1676. The others,
ﬁ'nall ovals on copper of king tWilliamand

T eniers, who, according to the fame writers, was here
too, came only to buy piétures, and therefore belongs
{till lefs to this catalogue.

* The French author of the Abregé de la _Vie des
plus fameux Peintres afﬁrms that he never was here,
being apprehenﬁve of the tumult of a court, and that
he compounded with the king by fending him feveral
piélures, p. 39. One would think that Charles had.
invited Netfcher to his parties of pleafure, or to be a
minifter. The folitude of a painter’s life is little dill
turbed by working for a court. If the refearches of
Vertue were not more to be depended on than this in—
accurate writer, the portraits of lord Berkeley and'his
lady would turn the balance in his favour. Did Natl;
cher fend them for prefents to the» king 3' I do not mean
in general to detract from the merits of this writer; he
feems to have underﬂood the profeﬂion, and is particu-
larly valuable for having colleﬂed {0 many portraits of
artills, and for giving lills of engravers after their pic-
tures. His work conﬁlts of three volumes quarto.

‘ ' queen

. .

94._ Painter: in the Reigan Charles II.

queen Mary, paintedjuft before the revolu- ~
tion, in the colleélion of the duke of Port; -
land. Netfch‘er died of the gravel and gout 1
in 1684. '

JACOB PEN,

A Dutch painter of hiﬁory, commended by g
Graham. There is a St. Luke by him" in
Painter’s-hall. He died about 1686.

.._._—_SUNMAN,

Of the fame country with the preceding,
came to England in the reign of Charles II.
and got into good \buﬁnefs after the death of
Sir Peter Lely, but having drawn the king
with lefs applaufe than Riley, he was dif-
guﬁed and retired to Oxford, where he was
employed by the Univerﬁty, and painted
for them the large pictures of their founders
now in the piéturagallery. He drew dean
Fell, father of the biihop, and Mr. William
Adams, fon of him who publifhed the
Villare Anglicanum. In term—time Sun—

' man

Painter: in :5: Reign 9f Charla: H. §$
man went conl’tantly to Oxford ‘5 the refl of

the year he paired in London, and died at
his houfe in Gerard-Erect about 1707. ~

.__._ s HE P'H A R D,»

An Englilh artil’t, of whom I can ﬁnd no
record, but that he lived in this reign, near
the Royal Exchange, painted Thom. Killi—
- grew with his dog, now at lord Godol-

phin’s, and retired into Yorklhire, WhCDC he
died.

.———. STEINER,

A Swifs, fcholar of one Warner, whole
manner he imitated, was alfo an'architeéh
Standing on the walls at the ﬁege'of Vienna,
he was wounded in the knee. The latter

part of his time he lived in England, and
died at Mortlack.

PETER

96 Painter: in lb: Reign qf Cbarlér II. gl

PuETER STOOP,

A Fleming, was fettled with his family at
Lifbon, from whence they followed Cather
tine of Portugal to England. Peter painted
battles, huntings, proceﬁions, &c. and his
brothers Roderigo and Theodore engraved
them. If the piétures were equal to the
plates from them, which are extremely in
themanner of Della Bella, Peter was an
artiﬁ of great merit. Graham fays fo, but
that his reputation declined on the arrival
of Wyck. Stoop was employed by one
Doily, a dealer in pictures, ltuﬁ's, &c. and
gave fome inﬁruétions in painting to John-
fon that admirable old comedian, the moﬂ;
natural and of the leaft gefticulation I ever
knew, ifo famous for playing the grave—
digger in Hamlet, Morofe, Noll Bluﬂ“, Bi-
Ihop Gardiner, and a few other parts, and
from whom Vertue received this account.
Stoop lived in Durham—yard, and when an ,
aged man retired to Flanders about 1678,
where he died eight years afterwards. Ver-

tue

Painters in the Reign of Cbarletlli 9‘7.
tue does not‘fay direc‘tly-that the other two:
Were brothers of Stoop; on the Contrary
he confounds Roderigo with Peter, but I
conclude they were his brothers or Tons,
from the prints etched by them about the
very time of Peter’s arrival in England;
They are a fet of eight plates containing
the public entry of admiral Sandwich into
Lifbon, and all the ‘circumf’tances ofmthe
‘ queen’s departure, arrival, and ‘entrieé‘ﬂ‘at
Whitehall and HamptonLcc’mrt. One, the
entry of the ear], is dedicated to him by
Theodore Stoop, ipﬁus regia: majeﬁatis
piétor, and is the only‘ oneto which Vertue
mentions the hat e of Theodore. Another
is the queen’s arrival at Hampton—court ;
but the name is wanting. Vertue defcribes
beﬁdes a picture, {even feet wide and two
high, containing the, king’s cavalcade
through the gates of the city the day be-
fore his coronation, but printed’iin’,,t662.
He fays not where he faw it,lbut calls the
painter Roderigo Stoop, as he does the en-
graver of the ref’t of the above—mentioned
plates. It is not impoﬂible but Peter might

VOL. III. G have

98. _' Painter; 5: the Reign of Charles II.

have affumed' the Portuguefe name of R0-
derigo at Lifbon. Some of the plates,
among Hollar’s, to Ogleby's IEfop, were
done by the fame perfon, but very poorly.
He etched a book of horfes in a much bet-
tcr manner. *

, -—.-—— WAGGONER,

Another unknown name, by whom there
is a view of the ﬁre of London in Painter’s-
hall. T '

ALEXANDER SOUVILLE,

A French-man, as little known as the pre-
ceding, and difeovered only by Vertue from
a memorandum in the account-books at the
Temple.

“ 0&. I7, 1685. The eight ﬁgures on

f Gilpin’s Eﬂ'ay on prints, 3d edit. p. 139.

1 There was another obfcure painter, among others
\ith have not come to my knowledge, called Bernart.
who in 1660 painted the portraits of Sir Gervafe and
Lady Elizabeth Pierpoint, now at the H00 in Hert-
fordihirc, the feat of Thomas Brand Efq.

the

Painter: in the Reign of Charles 11.9‘9
‘r the north-end of the paper—buildings in the
. King’-s bench— walks in the Inner-temple
- were painted by Monﬁeur Alexander Sou—
' ville.”

WILLIAM VANDEVELDE;

. Dii’cinguifhed from his more famous fon of
7 the fame name, by the appellation of 2/55
x.01d, was born at Leyden in 1610, and
learned to paint {hips by a previous turn
: to navigation. It was nOt much to his ho-
: nour that he COnduéted the Englifh ﬂeet, as
; is faid, to burn Schelling. Charles- II. had'
: received him and his ion with great marks
xof favour; it was pufhing his gratitude
:too far to ferve the king againft his own
DCOUDU'Y. Dr. Rawlinfon the Antiquary ‘
; gave Vertue a copy of the following privy-
tfeal, purchafed among the papers of fecre-
r tary Pepys ;

“ Charles the fecond, by the grace of
IGod, 8m. to our dear couﬁn prince Rupert,
:and the tell; of our commiﬂioners for exe-
2cuting the place of lord high—admiral of

G 2 England;

 

 

too Painter: in tbeRez'gn of Charles .11. 3%

England, greeting. Whereas wee have ;
thought ﬁtt to allow the falary of one xi
hundred pounds per annum unto William '5
' Vandevelde the elder for taking and mak- ‘
ing draughts of {ea—fights ; and the like ;
falary of one hundred pounds per annum
unto William Vandevelde the younger for 3
putting the faid draughts into, colours for
Our particular ufe ; our will and pleafure is, j
and wee do hereby authorize and require you ,
to iffue your orders for the prefent and fu- :
.ture eﬁablilhment of the faid falaries to the
aforefaid William Vandevelde the elder and 5;
William Vandeveld'e the younger, to be paid
unto them and either of them during our "
pleafure, and for f0 doing thefe our letters *
_. ihall be your fuﬂ'icient warrant and difcharge.
Given under our privy—feal at our pallace of
Wel’tmini‘ter, the 20th day of February in
the 26th year of our reign.”
_ The father, who was a very able mailer,
painted 'chieﬂy in black and white, and lat—
terly alwaysput the date on his works. He
was’buried in St. James’s-ch’drCh: on the
grave-Prone is this infeription ; - -
’ ' “ Mr.

Paihler: in tbe Reigiz of Charles II. 101

“ Mr. William Vandevelde, fenior, late _-

g painter of {ea-ﬁghts to their majel’ties ‘king
' Charles II. and king James dyed I693.”_
\Villiam Vandevelde, the Ten, was the-
greatef’t man that has appeared in this branch
of painting: the palm is not lefs difputed~
with Raphael for hillory, than with Vande-
velde for {ea-pieces: Annibal Caracci and"

. lVTr. Scott have not furpaffed thofe chief»
tains. William was born at Amﬁerdam in
1633, and wanted no mailer but his father,
till the latter came to England ; then for a
{hort time he was placed with Simon dc
Vlieger, an admired {hip-painter of that
time, but whofe name is only preferved,
now by being united to his difciple’s.
Young William was {con demanded by his
father, and gracioufly entertained by the
king, to whofe particular inclination his ,,
genius was adapted. William, I fuppofe,
lived chieﬂy with his father at Greenwich,
who had chofen that reﬁdence as fuited to
the ftibjeéts he wanted; In king James’s
collection were eighteen pieces of the father
and {on ; feveral are at Hampton-court and

G3 at

102 Pam”: in the Reign abearle: II.

at Hinchinbrook. At Buckingham-houfc
was a view, of ’f Solebay—ﬁght by the
former, with a long infeription. But the
beft chofen colleé‘tion of thefe matters is in
a chamber at Mr. Skinner’s in Clifford—
{hfeet Burlington—gardens, affembled at great
prices by the late Mr. Walker. Vandevelde
the {on having painted the junétion of the

Engliih and French ﬂeets at the Nore,
whither king Charles went to view them, V
and where he was reprefented going on»
board his own yacht, two commiﬂioners of
the Admiralty agreed to beg it of the king,
to cut it in two, and each to take a part.
The painter, in whofe prefencc they con-
cluded this wife treaty, took away the pic—
ture andeoncealcd it, till the king’s death,
when he oﬁ'ered it to Bullﬁnch the print-
feller (from whom Vertue had the ﬁery) for
fourfcore pounds. Bullﬁnch took time to
conﬁdcr, and returning to the purchafe,
{oundthe piéture fold. for I 30 guineas. Af-
terwards it was in the poﬂ‘eﬁion of Mr.
"’ Vandevelde, by order of the Duke of York, at-
tended, the engagement in a {mall veﬂ'el.
‘ Stone,

Painter: in the Reign of Charles II. to 3

Stone, at merchant retired into Oxfdtd“
lhire. ,
William the younger-died in 1707,‘as
appears by this inferip‘tion under his print;
Gulielmus Vanden Velde junior, navium &
profpeétuum marinarum pié‘tor, et rob fin-
gularem in ma arte peritiam a Carolo 8e
Jacobo ado. Magnae Britanniae regibus‘an-
nua mercede donatus. Obiit 6 Apr. A. D.
I707. aet. fua: 74,\ 5

William the elder had a brorher narhed
Cornelius, * who like him painted lhipping:
in black and white, was employed by king
Charles, and had a falary.

The Younger W'illiam left a fon, a pain-
ter too of the fame ﬁyle, and who made
good copies from his father’s works, but
was otherwife no conﬁderable performer.
He went to Holland and died there. He

* The anonymous author of the Abregé de la Vie
des plus famcux Peintres, mentions three other Vandé~
veldcs; Adrian who, he ignorantly fays, was [é plur
(0mm, was no relation of the others, and John: an en-
graver, and Ifaiah a battle—painter, both brothers of
the ﬁrﬂ William, as well as this Cornelius, p. 102. 7

G4. had

104 Rainier-tint!” Reign (if Charles 11;

u had a ﬁﬁqrewho'yas ﬁrf’t married to Simon

Du Bois, whom I {hall mention hereafter,
and then to Mr. 'Burgefs. She had the por-
traits of her grandfaﬁher and father by Sir
GodfreyKneller, of her brother by VVifﬁng,
and of her great uncle Cornelius. ‘

.Jior—IN VOSTERMANX‘?

O? Fornthel, iifon of a portrait— —painter and
difciple of Sachtleven, was a neat and ex-
cellent painter of {mail landfcapes 1n oil, as
may! be feen by two views of Windfor, (kill
in the gallery there. After the rapid con-
queﬁs of the French in 1672 he removed
from. Utrecht to Nimeguen, and pleaﬁng
the. marquis de Bethune, was made his ma‘
jorkiomo, employed to purchafe pictures,
and carried by him to France, from whence
he paﬂ‘ed Into England, and painted for kincr
Charles a chimney- -piece at Whitehall, and
a few other things;1' but demanding extra-
, * Graham calls him F. de Voﬁerman.

‘ f He painted a. view of Sterling cattle, the ﬁgures
by Wyck, from whence we may conclude that they took

a journey to Scotland.
vagant

v9
“va

Painter: in tlve Reign of Charles H. 105 .

vagant prices, as I 50 and 200 l. for his pic-
tures, he had not many commil'ﬁons from
court; and being as vain in his expen'ce as
of his works, he grew into debt and was ar- '
refted. He fued in 'vain to the king for de~
livery : his countrymen freed him by a con-
tribution. Sir William Soames being fent
embalrador to Conﬂantinople by James II.
Voﬂerman accompanied him, intending to .
paint the delights of that ﬁtuation ; but Sir
William dying on the road, it is .not certain
what became of the painter: it is laid that
before his departure from England, he had
been invited to Poland by his old patron
the marquis de Bethune, and probably -
went thither on the death of the embaf—
fador. *

* F rancifco Milé, a landfcape-painter of Antweip,
was here towards the end of Charles’s reign,_ but pro-
bably {laid not long.

Abrege &c. vol. ii. p. 2x4.

WILLIAM

_ 106 Painter: in :zeRezgn BfC’qurZe: 11.

WILLIAM WISSIN'G

Was born at Amﬂetdam and bred under
Dodaens- an hiﬂzoric painter of the Hague,
from whence Wifﬁng pat‘kd into France,
contraéted the furbelovved (1er of that coun—
try and age, and came into England, where
at leaﬁ he learned it in its perfeétion from
Sir Peter Lely for whom he worked, and
after whofe death he grew into fafhion. He
drew all the royal famiiy, and particuiarly
the duke of Monmouth fetteral times, which
i'ngratiated him with the king and the la-
dies. Sir Godfrey Kneller, then the-riﬁng
genius, was a fomridable rival, but death
put an end to the contei’t in the thirty—ﬁrth
year of Wiﬂing’s age, who deceafed at Bur-
leigh, the lord Exeter’s, in 1687. He was
buried at the expence of that earl in St.
Martin’s Stamford, where againﬁ a pillar in
the middle iﬂe of the church, is a monu-
mental table to his ~memory; the infcrip-
tion may be feen in Graham. There are

feveral

Painter: in tlae Reign of Charles II. 107 _.

feveral prints from his works, particularly
one of queen Catherine with a dog. Prior *
wrote a poem on the hit piéture he painté
ed. A mezzotinto of Willing is thus in~
fcribed; Gulielmus Willingus, inter piétores
fui {seculi celeberrimos, nulli fecundus, artis
'fUEB non exiguum decus 8r. ornamentum,
immodicis brevis ell" aetas.

ADRIAN HENNY or HENNIN,

One of the laﬂ: painters who arrived in the
reign of Charles II. Little is known of him,
but that having been two years in France,
he adopted the manner of Gafpar Pouﬁin.
Vertue thought he came in 1680 ; if fo,-
the title-plate to a hillory of Oxford de.:
ﬁgned by him, and engraved by White in
1674, muﬁ; have been done antecedent to
his arrival. He painted much at Eythorp,

" Prior early in his life was patronized by that noble
family, and by his pleaﬁng verfes has added celebrity;
to that venerable palace, {acred by the memory of Bur-
leigh, and ornamented with a profuﬁon of Carlo Ma.-
ratti’s and Luca Jordano’s works.

the

108 Painter: in the Reign of Charles H.

the feat of Dormer lord Carnarvo'n, now
of Sir William Stanhope, and died here
in 1710.

HERBERT TUjER

Was fecond fon of Theophilus Tuer, by
Catherine, neice of Mr. George Herbert
the poet: his grandfather and great-grand-
father were vicars, the former of Elfenham
in-Eﬂ‘ex, the latter of 'Sabridgeworth in
Hertfordﬂiire, towards the latter end of Eli-
zabeth. Herbert, who received his name
from his maternal uncle, withdrew with his
youngeﬁ; brother Theophilus, into Holland,
after' the death of Charles=l.z The latter
followed. arms; Herbert applied to paint?
ing, and made good progrefs in portraits,
as appears by fome ﬁnall ones of himfelf
and family, now in England, where how-
ever they are little known. A print of Sir
Lionel Jenkins, probably drawn at Nime—
guen, is from a piélure by Tuer. He
married two wives, Mary Van Gameren,

daughter

Painzqrs in the Reign of Charles 1L2, 109

daughter of a procurer of. Utrecht, and Eli-
zabeth Van Heymenbergh. . John, his fon,
by the ﬁrﬁ, was reﬁdent at Nimeguen with
his mother-in-law_in 1680, at which time
Herbert was dead. , It.is believed that he
died at Utrecht, where in the, Painter’s-
hall is faid to be a head finely coloured by

him.

TEMPESTA‘ and TO'MASO,‘

Two painters who worked at Wilton, pain-
ing cielings and pannels of rooms. Tem-
pella was I believe, fon of a well-known
painter of the fame name." Tomafo, and a
brother of his, who was employed at Wil-
ton too, were brought over by Sir Charles
Cotterel, for which reafon I have placed
them here, tho’ I! do not know exactly
whether their performances were not dated
a little later than this period.‘ I ﬁnd no: '
other mention of them * or Tempeﬁa in

* Lord Delawar has a pié’cure of Apollo and the‘
Mufcs, evidently a copy of Rubens ; in one corner is' .
the painter’s name, J. Tomafo.

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1 IO Painter: in the Reign of Cbarle: II.

England. There are at Wilton two pieces
of tapeﬁry after the Cartoons of Raphael,
with the workman’s name Stephen Mayn,
and his arms, a Crofs of St. George; pro-
bably executed long before this period, and
perhaps not in England;

If our painters in oil were not of the ﬁrf’t
rate during the period I have been defcrib-
ing, in water-colours that reign has the
highcl’t pretenﬁons.

SAMUEL COOPER

Owed great part of his merit to the works
of Vandyck,. and yet may be called an ori-
ginal genius, as he was the ﬁrl’t who gave
the firength and freedom of oil to minia-
ture. Oliver’s works are touched and re-
touched with fuch careful fidelity that you
cannot help perceiving they are nature in
the abf’traét; Cooper’s are fo bold that they
feem perfect nature only of a lefs ﬁandard.
Magnify the former, they are ﬁill diminu-

tively conceived: if a glafs could eXpand
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Painter: in the Reign of Charles II. ‘11 r

Cooper’s pictures to the ﬁze of Vandyok’s,
they would appear to have been painted.
for that proportion. If his portrait of *
Cromwell could be f0 enlarged, I don't
know but Vandyck would appear leﬁs great
by the comparifon. To'make it fairly, one
mul’t not meafure the Fleming by his molt
admired piece, cardinal Bentivoglio: The
quick fineﬂe of eye in a ﬂorid Italian writer
was not a fubjet‘t equal to the protector;
but it would be an amuﬁng trial to balance
Cooper’s Oliver and Vandyck’s lord Straf-
ford. To trace the lineaments of equal
ambition, equal intrepidity, equal art, eq‘ual
prefumption, and to compare the {kill of
the mailers in reprefenting the one exalted

to the height of his hopes, yet perplexed

with a command he could fcarce hold, did
not dare to relinquifh, and yet dared to ex-
ert, the other, dalhed in his career, willing

* This ﬁne head is in the poll'eﬂion of the lady
F rankland, widow of Sir Thomas, a defcendant of
Cromwell. The body is unﬂnilhed. Vertue engraved
it, as he did another, in proﬁle, in the colleﬁion of
the duke of Devonfhirc.

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-1'1 2 Painter: in tbe Reign of Charles II.

to avoid the precipice, fearching all the.
mceﬂes of f0 great a foul to break his fall,
and yet ready to mount the fcaﬁ'old with
more dignity than the other afcended the
throne.. This parallel is not a picture
drawn by fancy 5 if the artiﬁs had worked
in competition, they could not have ap-
proached nigher to the points of view in
whichI have traced the characters of their
heroes.

Cooper with fo much merit had two de—
fects. His {kill was conﬁned to a meer
head; his drawing even of the neck and
Ihoulders fo incorrect and untoward, that it
feems to account for the numbers of his
works unﬁnifhed. It looks as if he was
fenﬁble how fmall a way” his talent extend-
ed. This very poverty accounts for the
other, his want of grace : A ﬁgnal deﬁcience
in a painter of portraits—yet how feldom
poITelTed! Bounded as their province is to
a few tame attitudes, how grace atones for
want of action! Cooper, content, like his
countrymen, with the good fenfe of truth,
neglected to make truth engaging. Grace

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Panzer} in we Reign of came: it. I 1'3
in painting feems peculiar to Italy. The
Flemings and the French run into oppoﬁte
_ 'extremes; The ﬁrﬁ: never approach the line,
the latter exceed it, and catch at molt but
a lefTer {pecies of it, the genteel,- which if I
Were to deﬁne, I fhould call familiar grace,
as‘ grace feems an amiable degree of ma-
jeﬁy. Cooper’s women, like his model
Vandyck's, are feldom very handfome; It
I is Lely alone that excufes the galantries of .
Charles II. He painted an apology for that
Aﬁatic court; ' _

The anecdotes of Cooper’s life are few;
: nor does it ﬁgnify; his works are his hif-
‘ tory. He Was born in 1609 and inﬂruéted,
. with his brother Alexander, by their uncle
Hoﬂiins, who, fays Graham, was jealous of
him, and whom he foon furpaﬁ'ed.~ The va«
riety of tints that he introduced, the clear—
nefs of his carnatiOns, and loofe manage-
ment of hair exceed his uncle, though in the
laft Holkins had great merit too. The au-
thor I have jui’c quoted mentions another
capital work of Cooper, the portrait of one
Swingﬁeld, which recommended the artiﬂ:

VOL. 111. H to

I I4. Painters in the Reign of Charles II.

to the court of France,- where he painted fe:
veral pieces larger than his ufual ﬁze, and
for which his widow received a penfion
during her life. He lived long in France
and Holland, and dying in London May 5, *
167 a, at the age of 6 3, was buried in Pan—
cras—church,' where is a monument for him,
The infcription is in Graham, who adds that
he had great {kill in muﬁc, and played well
On the lure.
His works are too many to be enume-
rated, feven or eight are in queen Caroline’s
clofet at Kcnﬁngton; one of them, a head
of Moneke, is capital, but unﬁnilhed. Lord
V'Oxford had a head of archbifhop Sheldon;
and the hull of lord chancellor Shaftfbury

‘ Mr. Willett in Thames-Pcreet has a head of a young
man in armour, of the family of Deane in- Suffolk, not
equal to molt of Cooper’s works. Myreafon for men~
tioning it is, it’r’b‘eing fet in an enamclled cafe, on
the outfides of which are two beautifull Madonnas,
each with the child, freely painted, in alight ﬁyle:
within, is likewife an enamelled landfcape. The pic-
ture is dated 1649. This, collated with my enamel of
general Fairfax, feems to corroborate my Opinion that
Bordier (by whom I take thefe enamels to be Painted)

remained here after Petite: left England.
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l’ainier: in ilie Reign (if Charles II. 115
6n his mOnument by Ryfbrach was taken
"from a picture of Cooper. ‘

It is an anecdote little known, I believe,
and too triﬂing but far fuch a work as this,
that ?ope’s mother was ﬁlter of Cooper’s
wife. * Lord Carleton had a portrait of
Cooper in crayons, which Mrs. Pope faid
Was not very like, and which, defcending to
lard Burlington, was given by his lordlhip
to Kent: It was painted by One jackfon,
a relation of Cooper, of whom I know not
thing more, and Who, I fuppofe, drew ano;
ther head of Cooper, in crayons, in queen
Caroline’s clofet, laid to be painted by him—
felf; but I ﬁnd no aCcoUnt of his eﬂ'ays in
that way. He did once attempt oil, as
Murray the painter told Vettue, and added,
that Hayls thereupon applied to miniature,
which he threatened to continue, unlefs
Couper deﬁl’ted from oil, which he did——
but fuch menaces do not frighten much,
unlels feconded by want of fuccefs. Among

, * I have a drawing of Pbpe’s father as he lay dead
in his bed, by his brother—in-law Cooper. It was Mr.
Pope’s.

H 2 Orinda’s

a i 16 Painters in the Reign of Charles II.

Orinda’s poems is one to Cooper on drawing
. her friend Lucaﬁa’s piéture, in,166o.

RICHARD GIBSON,

The Dwarf, being page to a lady at ,Mort-
lack, was placed by her with Francefco
Cleyne, to learn to draw, in which he fuc—
ceeded, perfeéting himfelf by copying the
works of Sir Peter Lely, who drew Gibfon’s
picture leaning on a buf’t, 1658,’ another
evidence of Sir Peter being here before the
reiteration. It was in the polTeﬁion of Mr.
Rofe * the jeweller, who had another head
of the dWarf by Dobfon, and his little wife
in black, by Lely. This diminutive couple
were married in the prefence of Charles I.

 

 

and his queen, who befpoke a diamond ring
for the bride, but the troubles coming on
{he never received it. , Her 1 name was
Anne Shepherd. The little pair were each
three feet ten inches high. Waller has cele-

* He married Gibfon’s,daughter, a paintrefs, that
will be mentioned hereafter. j
1- See notes to Fenton’s Waller. 1

brated

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Painter: in the Reign of Charles II. I 1'; *“

brated their nuptials in one of his prettief’c
poems. The hufband was page to the king, .
and had already attained {uch excellence,
that a piﬂ'ure of the man and. loft ﬂieep
- painted by him, and much admired by the
king, was the caufe of Vanderdort’s death,‘
as we have feen in the preceding‘volume.
Thomas * earl of Pembroke had the por—
traits of the dwarfs hand in hand by Sir
Peter Lely, and exchanging it for another
picture, it fell into the poffeﬂion of Cock
the auctioneer, who fold it to Mr. Gibfon
the painter in 17 12. It was painted in the
ﬁer of Vandyck. Mr. 1- Rofe had another,
fmall piece of the dwarf and his maﬁer
Francefco Cle-yne, in green habits as archers,
with bows and arrows, and he had preferyed
Gibfon’s bow, who was fond of archery.
Gibfon taught queen Anne to draw, and
went to Holland to inﬁruét her ﬁﬁer the

-“ Gibfon had been patronized by Philip earl ofPem-
broke, and painted Cromwell’s piéture feveral times.
Mrs. Gibfon is reprefented by Vandyck in the pié‘tqre
with the duchefs of Richmond at \Vilton.

f Mr. W. Hamilton, Envoy to Naples, has a draw‘
iigg of Gibfon by Vandyck.

H 3 princefs

118 Painter: in the R5537; qf Charles II,

princefs of Orange. The {mall couple had
nine children, ﬁve of which lived to matu:
rity, 43% were of a proper Inc. Richard the
father died in the 7 5th year of his age, and
was buried ’3 at Covent-garden : his little
widow lived till 1709, when flie was 89
years old.

WILLIAM GIBSON,

Nephew of the preceding, was taught by
him and Sir Peter Lely, and copied the lat:
ter happily 5 but chieﬂy practiced miniature.
He bought great part of Sir Peter’s collec-
tion, and added much to it. Dying of a
lethargy in 1702 at the age of 5%, he was
buried at Richmond, as was ’

EDWARD GIBSON,

I fuppofe, fon of the dwarf, This young
man began with painting portraits in oil, but

‘ * From the regiﬁer. Richard Gibfon died July 2 3,
1690.

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Painter's in tbe Reign of Charles II, it 9

ehanged that manner for crayons. His own
picture done by himfelf in this way 1690,
was at Tart-hall, Edward died at the age

of 33,

JOHN DIXON,

Scholar of Sir Peter Lely, painted. both in
miniature and crayons, but moi’dy the
former. In the latter was his own head. In
water—colours there are great numbers of his
works; above ﬁxty were in lord Oxford’s
colleftion, both portraits and hiﬁories, partis-
cularly, Diana and her Nymphs bathing, af;
ter Polenburg, and a ﬂeeping Venus, Cupids,
and a Satyr. Thefe were his bell: works,
He was keeper of the king’s piéture-clofet 5
and in 16 98 was concerned in a bubble
Lottery. The whole {mm was to be 40,000 1,
divided into 1214. prizes, the highefl: prize
in money 3000 Z. the lowef’t 201. One
prize, a collection of limnings, he valued
fo highly, that the perion to whom it Ihould
fall might, in lieu of it, receive 2000!. Each
ticket twenty fhillings. (Lueen Anne, then

H 4. princefs,

I 20 Painter: in the Reign. of Charles IL,

princefs, was an adventurer. This aﬂ-‘air'
turned out ill, and Dixon, falling into debt,
removed for (equity! from St, Martin’s—lane,
where he lived, to the King’s-bench-walks
in the Temple, and latterly to a fmall eltate
he had at Thwaite near Bungay in Suffolk;
where he died about 1715; and where his
widow and children were living in 1725.
Dixon, adds Vertue, once bought a picture
for a triﬂe at a brokeris, which he fold to the
duke of Devonfhire for goo l. but does not
fpecif'y the hand or fubjeét.

ALEXANDER MARSHALL,

Another performer in water-colours, who
painted on velom a book of Mr. Trade-
fcant’s*choiceﬁ' ﬂowers and plants. At Dr,
Friend’s Vertue {aw feveral pretty large
pieces after Vandyck, the ﬁefh painted very
carefully. He mentions too one Jofhua

‘ V. Mufeum Tradefcantianum. It is a {mall book
containing a catalogue of the rarities in that colleftion
at Lambeth, with two prints by Hollat of the father
and (on.

Marlhall,

V fainter: in the Reign of Charles II.’ 121

Marlhall, a fculptor, who in 1664. executed
the monument ,of Baptilt lord Noel and his
lady in Glouceﬂerfhire,

WI'LLI-AM HASSEL,

Another painter ‘known only to the induﬂry
of lVIr. Vertue, who law an oval miniature
of a Scotch gentleman, which being en—
‘ grayed by P. Vanderbank was {alfely in-e
fcribed lord,Marr, The mark on the pic-
ture was W. H. I385. This, fays Vertue,
I think, was William Halfel. Since the
ﬁrft edition I am informed that Mr. Haﬂ‘el
not only painted in miniature but in oil, in
which way he executed an oval head of Mr.
Hughes, author of the Siege of Damafcus,'
who joined the ﬁller arts, and painted fe-
veral {mail pieces in water-colours for his-
amufement. That feraphic dame, 'Mrs»
Rowe, alfo painted. A gentleman from
whom I received thefe notices has a hull
of the abovementioned Mr. Hughes done
by her in Indian ink. There lived about
the fame time one Conl‘tantine, a land-

{cape-

122 Painter: in tbs Reign of Charles II.

{cape-painter, and Mr. White, a limner;
Mr. Hughes addreﬂ'ed a poem to. the

former,

MATTHEW SNELLING,

A gentleman who painted in miniature, and
that (being very galant) feldom but for
ladies. In Mr. Rofe’s fale 1723 was a head
of Smelling by Cooper 1644, ﬁnely painted,
but the hands and drapery poor. Mr. Beale
mentions him in one of hi pocket—books, 9“
for fending prefents of colours to his wife in
1654, and 1658; and that in 1678, Mr.
Snelling ofered him thirty guineas for at
Venus and Cupid after Rottenhamer, for
which he alked forty guineas and was worth
ﬁfty. I do not know whether this perfon
was related to Thomas Smelling, a poet re-
corded in Wood’s Athenae, vol. ii. p. I 35.,

* See the next article,

MARY

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fainter: in the Reign of Gharlesﬂ. 123

MARY BEALE

Was daughter of Mr. Cradock, minifter of
Walton * upon Thames, and learned the rut
gdiments of painting from Sir Peter Lely, and
had fome inftruétions, as Vertue thought,
from Walker, She painted in oil, water-.-
eolours and crayons, and had much buﬁ-
nefs ; her portraits were in the Italian ﬁyle,
which [he acquired by copying feveral pic—
tures and drawings from Sir Peter Lely.’s
and the royal colleétions. Her matter was
fuppofed to have had a tender attachment
to her, but as he was referved in commu-
nicating to her all the refources of his pen-
cil, it probably was a galant paﬂion, rather
than a fuccefsful one. Dr. VVoodfall wrote
feveral poems to her honour? under the
name of Beleﬁa; but the fullei’c hiﬁory of
her life and works was recorded by her Own
hufband, who in fmall almanac—pocket-

* Where Mr. Beale afterwards emailed a monument
for him.

book‘s

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‘ I 24 Painter: iii-tine Reign of Cbarles II.

booksminuted down almoft daily accounts
pfwhatever'related to himfelf, his buﬁnefs,
and his wife’s piétures. Of thefe almanacs
there were above thirty, which with moft of
Mr. Beale’s papers came into the‘hands of
Carter, colourman, to whom Beale be-'
queathed them. Some were fold to Mr.
Brooke a clergyman. His {hare Carter
lent to a low painter, whofe goods being
feized the pocket—books were loft, but
{even of them a friend of Vertue’s met with
on a ﬁall, bought, and lent to him. lVIol’t
of his extraéts I {hall now offer to therea-
der, without apprehenﬁon of their being’
. condemned-as triﬂing or tirefome, If they
are fo; how will this whole work efeape?
When one writes the lives of artiﬁs, who in,
general were not very eminent, their pocket-,-
books. are as important as any part of their
hiﬁory—I {hall ufe no farther apology—
if even thofe that are loft {hould be re,
gretred !

The. ﬁrft is “ 1672. 20 April. Mr. Lely
was here with Mr. Gibfon and IVIr. Skip-
with, to fee us, and commended' very much

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Painters in the Reign of Charles II. '125

her (Mrs. Beale’s) coppy after our Saviour
‘ praying in the garden, &c. after Anto. da
Correggio: her coppy in little after En;-
' dimion Porter his lady and three fons he
commended extraordinarily, and {aid (to
ufe his own words) it was painted like Van-
dyke himfelf in little, and that it was the
bell: coppy he ever {aw of Vandyke. .Alfi
he very well liked her two coppyes in great
of Mr. Porter’s little {on Phil. He com—
mended her other works, coppyes and thofe
from the life. Both he and Mr. Gibfon
both commended her works.

“ Mr. Lely told me at the fame time
as he was molt ftudiouﬂy looking at my
bifhop’s piéture of Vandyke’s, and I chanc-
ed to alk him how Sir Antony cou’d poll
{1ny divife to ﬁnifh in one day a face that
was {0 exceeding full of' work, and wrought
up to f0 extraordinary a perfectiom—I be—-
lieve, faid he, he painted it overfourteen
times. And upon that he took occaﬁon to
fpeake of Mr. Nicholas Lan-iere’s picture of
Sr. Anto. V. D. doing, which, {aid he, Mr.
Laniere himfelf told me he fatt feaven en-

tlI‘C

M6 Painter: in the Reign WCLdrles If; }
tire dayes for it to SrgAnto.’ and that he," V
painted Upon it of all thofe feaV’en dayesi
both morning and afternoon, and only in:
termitted the time they were at dinner;
And he faid likewife that tho’ Mr: haniere'
fatt fo often and f0 long for his piéh‘lre, that
he Was not permitted fo mUch as once to"
ﬁe it, till he had perfeétly ﬁnilh-ed the face
to his own fatisfaé‘tion. This was the pic:
ture which being lhow‘d to king Charles
the ﬁrﬂ: caufed him to give order that
V. Dyek fhou’d be fent for over into Eng:
land. ‘

* “ 26 Feb. 1671-2; My worthy and

kind friend Dr. Belk caufed the excellent
- piélzure of Endimion Porter,- his lady and
three fons altogether done by Sr. Anto;
Vandyke, to be brought to my houfe that ‘
my deare heart might have opportunity to‘
Rudy it, and coppy What lhee thought ﬁtt
of ittt Alfo at the fame time wee return’d

 

' This tranfcript fhould have preceded the former;
but I give them cxaﬁly as I ﬁndthem in Vertue’a‘
extraét.

Mrs.

Painters in ii}: Reigu' of Charles H. 127'
Mrs; Cheek’s piéhire of Mr. Lely’s painting
back to my lord Chamberlain.-

“ Pink remaining in Rock Sept. 1672.
Some parcells containing fomc pds. weight
of tryalls made July 1663

“ 19 April, 1672. My deareft painted
over the third time a ﬁde face. This Mi.
Flatman liked very Well.- ,,

“ 24.- April,1672. My mofl worthy ﬁiend
Dr. Tillotfon {at to Mr. Lely for his pic—
ture for me, and another for Dr. Cradock.
He drew them ﬁrl’t in chalk rudely, and af—
terwards in colours, and rubbed upon that
a little colour very thin in places for the
fhadows, and laid a touch of light upon the
heightning of the forehead. He had done
them both in an hour’s time.

“ Lord bifhop of Chefler’s picture paint-
ed by Mrs. Beale for Lord George Berke-
ley.

“ Sunday May 5th, 1672‘ Mr. Samuel
Cooper, the mof’t famous limner of the
world for a face, dyed.

“ 18 May, 1672. Pd. Mr. Tho. Bur-
man in part, due for my honoured father

and

:23 15mm iii the Reign‘ be/w‘r‘lé: ff. '

and mother’s monument fet Up for them at 4

Walton in Bricks, at the expence of my bro-
ther Henry Beale and myfelf, the whole Colt
paid In full 4.51.

“ 2 3 Ld. and lady" ‘Cor‘nbury 5 pictures
”dead colour’ d.- Dr Sidenham’ 5 picture be-

gan.

w “ 5 June, Dr. Tillocfon‘ fat abOUt three"

hours to Mr. Lely for him to lay in a dead
colour of his piéture for me.‘ He appre-
hending, the colour of the cloth upon which
-he painted was too light before he began to
lay on the ﬁeﬂvcolour, he glazed the whole
place, where the face and haire were drawn
in a colour over thin, with Cullen’s—earth,
and a little bonn black (as he told uS) made
very thin with varnifh.

“ June 1672. Received for three pictures
of Sir Rob. Viner, his lady and daughter
30!. »

“ 20 June. My molt worthy friend Dr‘
Tillotfon fat in the morning about three
hours to Mr. Lely, the piéture he is doing

for me. This is the third fetting.
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Painter: m‘ tie Reign of Charles Iis “I 2 9

“ Mr. Fuller the painter died I7 July, '
I67 2, as Mr. Manby told me. -

“ 22 July. Mrs. Beale painted her OWn
pi&Ure, feeond fetting.

“2 3 July. Received ofCol. Giles Strange-
Ways * for Dr. Pierce’ s, Dr. Cradock’s, Dr.
Tillotfon’s, Dr. Still-ingﬂeet’s, Mr. Crume
holem’s piétures 25 l. 1-

“ I Aug. 1672. Dr. Tillotfon fat to Mr.
Lely about three hours for the piéture he
is doing For me, this is the fourth time,
and I believe he will paint it (at aleaﬂ touch
it) over again. His manner in the paint-
ing of this piéture, this time efpecially,

'feem’d ﬁrangely different both to myfelf
and my dearel’c heart from his manner of
painting the former piétures he did for us.

* Thefe ﬁve heads and three more, are ﬂill at the
earl of Ilcheﬁer’s at Melbury in Dorfetfhire, the ﬁne
old {eat of the Strangways. Each head is inclofed m a
frame of lioneazolour- ; a mark that .very generally dill-
tinguifhes Mrs. Beale’ 5 works.

f Mrs. Beale had 5 l. for a head, and 101. for ahalﬂs

length, in oil, which was hermoﬂ common method of
painting.

VopIII. I This

z gogaimm in the Reign of Charles II.
This wee thought was ‘a more conceiled
miﬂ’erious fcanty way' of painting then
the way he ufed formerly, which wee both
thought was a far more open and free, and -
much more was to‘ be obferved and gain’d
from feeing him paint then, then my heart
cou’d with her molt carefull marking learn *
from his painting either this, or Dr. Cra-
dock’s picture of his doing for Dr. Pa~
trick.

. “ Delivered to Mr. Lely one ounce of
Ultramarine at 9.1. 10:. one ounce towards
payment for Dr. Tillotfon’s piéture for
me.

.“ 30 Sept. I carryd my two boys Charles
and Batt. to Mr. Lely’s and ihewed them i
all his pictures, his rare colleétion. I Oétob.
I went again to Mr. Lely’s, and ihewd

* I think it clear from this whole paﬂ‘age, that what
I have aﬂ'erted in the text from Graham of Mrs.
Beale being fcholar to Lely, is a mif’take of that writer.
Beale does not hint at it-—on the contrary they feem
to have procured their friends to ﬁt to Sir Peter, that
ihe'might learn his method of colouring—and Sir Pe.
ter {eems to have been aware of the intention.‘

Mr.

Painter: in the Reign of Cbarle: II. I 3:

Mr. W. Bonef’t the fame excellent pictures.
This perfon was a learner then.

“ I have paid Mr. Lely towards the pic-
tures of Mr. Cos. Brooke Bridges and Dr.
Tillotfon which he is doing for me, by fe-
veral parcells of Lake of my’own makeing
which he fent for 17 Aug. .1671, and U1—
tramarine and money, I 3!. 12 J.

“ Received this year 1672 ‘moneys at in—
tereit, rents, or for colours, upon Mrs.
Beale’s account, 101 l. I I 5. Received this
year for pictures done by my dearef’t heart
2021. 5:.”

Then follows a lift of pictures done from
the life by Mrs. Beale fince 1671-2, with
the months in which they were painted.
There were thirty—ﬁve paid for, beﬁdes. fe-
veral begun and not paid for; among the
former were, portraits of Sr. Rob. Viner and
his daughter in one piece, Dr. Tillotfon,
and Dr. Stillingfleet, Dr. Outram, Dr. Pa~
trick, Col. Strangways ; and a Magdalen
painted from Moll Trioche, a young woman
who died I672. Among the latter, his ﬁf-

I 2 ter’s,

132 Painter: in the Reign. of Cbarle: II.

,ter’s, his wife’s own, lady Falconberg, and

lady Eliz. Howard’s piétures.

From the almanac of 1674. were the fol-
lowing inemorandums :

“ In Auguﬂ Mr. Lcly had one ounce of
Ultramarine the richeﬂ: at 4.1. 10:. per oz.
in part of payments betwixt us for dean of
Cant. Tillotfon, and Dr. Stillingﬂeet, which
he has done for me, and by Lakes and UL
tramarins, according to account of the par-
ticulars. I67 3 -- 24 9 o

4. IO 0

28 19 0 So there
is due to to him I I. IS. in full payment for
the two fore-mentioned pictures.

“Aug. 1674.. Mr. Lely dead-colour’d
my {on Charles picture—took a drawing
upon paper after an * Indian gown which

" This was ('0 eﬁablifhed a fafhion at that time, that
in Chamberlain’s Prefent~ﬂate of England for 1684,
I ﬁnd Robert Croft, Indian-gown-maker to the king,
Mrs. Mary Mandove, Indian -gown-maker to _the
queen. .

he

Painter: in the Reign of Clmrie: H. I 3 3

he had put on his back, in order to the
ﬁniﬂiing the drapery of it.

“ Nov. Borrowed of Wm. Chiﬂinch efq;
eleaven of his majefties Italian drawings.

“ 1674. Received this yeare for pictures
done by my dearel’t, 2161. 5:.” ,
' At the end of this book are more lifts of
pictures begun or ﬁnilhed by Mrs. Beale.

From the almanac of 1677.~

“ June 4. Mr. Comer the painter being
' at our houfe told my deareﬁ as a fecret that
he ufed black chalk ground in oil ini’cead of
blue black and found it much better and
more innocent colour.

“ 22 May. Mr. Francis Knollys came
himfelf and fetched away the original picture
of the old earl of Straﬁ‘ord and Sr Philip
Manwaring which had been left here for
fome years. It was carried away by two of
the lord Hollis’s fervants whom Mr. Knollys
brought with him for that purpofe.

« April. I faw at Mr. Bab' May’s lodg-
ings at Whitehall thefe piétures of Mr.
Lely’ s doeing ; I. The king’s picture in

I 3 buﬁ‘

I 34. Painter: in t1): Reign of Cbarle: If.

buﬁ' half—length. 2. F ir’l’c dutches of York,
h. l. 3.Dutches of Portfmouth, h. l. 4. Mrs.
Gwin with a lamb, h. l. 5. Mrs. Davis
with a gold pot, h. l. 6. Mrs. Roberts, h. l.
7. Dutches of Cleveland being as a Ma—
donna and a babe. 8. Mrs. May’s fifter,
h. l. 9. Mr. Wm. Finch, a head by Mr.

. Hales. .Dutches of Richmond, h. l.

by Mr. Ailderton.

“ Jan. 1676—7. Mr. Lely came to fee
Mrs. Beale’s paintings, feveral of them he
much commended, and upon obfervation
{aid Mrs. Beale was much improv’d in her
painting.

“ Mrs. Beale painted Sr. Wm. Turner’s
pié'ture from head to foot for our worthy
friend Mr. Knollys. He gave it to be fett
up in the hall at Bridewell, Sir Wm. Turner
haveing been preﬁdent in the year he was
lord— —mayor of London.

“ Feb. 16. I gave Mr. Manby two
ounces of very good lake of my making,
and one ounce and half of pink, in con-
ﬁderation of the landikip he did in the
Countefs of C‘l'are’s picture.

“ Feb.

”.14.. ......,.___«_‘.u. A. N

‘ .

Painter: in tbe Reign of Cbarle: II. 1.35

“ Feb. Borrow’d' ﬁx Italian drawings
out of the king’s colleétion for my Ions to
practice by.

“ Monday 5th March. I fent my fon
Charles to Mr. Flatman‘s in order to his
beginning to learn to limme of him. The
fame time I fent my fon’s Barth. picture
done 'by my dearef’t for Charles to make an
effay in water—colours. Lent my fon Charles
3!. which he is to work out. i

“ Moneys paid my {on Barth. for work,
laying in the draperys of his mother’s pic'—
tures, from the beginning of this year
1676—7. About twenty-ﬁve half-lengths,
and as many more heads layd in. Raid my
{on Charles upon the fame account, near as
many. The father, Charles Beale had fome
employment in the board of Green—cloth-
This year Mrs. Beale had great bUﬁnefs,
and received for piétures 4291. among others
whofe portraits Ihe drew were, the earl of
Clarendon, lord Cornbury, Bp. ‘~Wilkins,
Countefs of Derby, Sr. Stephen Fox, lord
Halifax, duke of Newcallle, lady Scarfdale,
earl of Bolinbroke, lady Dorcheﬁer, lady

I 4 Stafford,

In 'aewvcﬁe «Me «Waxy-yr r—s'e "1T ‘-

' 3’

'1 36 Painters in the Reign ‘of Charles H.
Stafford, Mr. Th. Thy-tine, Mr. fecretary

Coventry, feVeral of the family of Lowther,
earl of Clare, Mr. Finch, fon of the chan—
Cellor, and‘Mr. Charles Stanley, {on of the
Countefs of Dtrby. ,

In the almanack of 1661 are no accOunts

of portraits painted by her, as if {he had

not yet got intobuﬁnefs, but there are me—
morandums of debts, paid, and of implements
for painting bought, and an inventory of
Valuable pictures and drawings in their pof—
feﬂion. Mention too is made of three por-
traits by Walker, her own, her hufband’s and
henfather’s 5 of Sr. Peter Lely’s by himfelf,
half—length, price 10' l. Hanneman’s picture
and frame 18]. Item. Given feveral ways
to Mr. Flatman for limning my own pic—
ture, my daughter Mall’s, father Cradock,
and the boys, 30!. It concludes with an
inventory of their goods, furniture, colours,

‘plate, watches, &c.

Anodier 'pocket-book.
“ May 19, 1676. Mr; Greenhill the pain-
ter dyed.

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Painter: in the-Reign of Charla-II. 132,7

“ 3d of May. I made exchange with Mr.
Henny, half an ounce of Ultramarine for
four poxmd of his Smalt which he'valued at
eight {billings a‘p‘ourid, being the bat- and
ﬁnef’t ground Smalt that ever came into
England.

“ Sep. Lent to Mr. Mahby a little Ita-
lian book I! Partito di Damn“ about paint:-
ing.

“ 26. Sent Mr. Lely an ounce of my
richeﬂ: Lake in part of payment for Mr.
Dean of Cant. Dr. Qillingﬂeet’s and my fon
' Charles pié‘ture which he did for me.”

Then follow lifts of lives of painters
which he thought to tranflate, and of pie-
tures begun that year, as, the earl of Athol’s,
lady Northumberland’s, &c. and of pictures
copied from. Sr. Peter, as the duchefs of
York, lady Cleveland, lady Mary Cavendifh,
lady Eliz. Percy, lady Clare, lady Halifax,
Mrs. Gwin, &c. and of others from which
ﬁle only copied the pof’tures.

it . Sic._0rig.
6 l ' Another

3.3 2934-qu v1 ‘VF‘AF‘S ;_ .,

I 38 Painter: in the Reign of Charles II.
Another book; I 6 8 I .

“ The king’s half-length piéture which '

I borrow’d of Sir Peter was fent back to his
executors, to Sr. Peter Lely‘s houfe. .
“ March. Dr. Burnet * prefented the fe-
cond volume of the Hiflory of the Refor-
mation to Mrs. Beale as he had done the
ﬁll volume.
“ April. Lent Mr. Tho. Manby my

Leonardo da Vinci, which I had from Mr.

F latman. Q

“ July. My dear heart ﬁnilht the ﬁrﬁ:
com of the half—length of lady Ogle’s pic—
ture, after Sr. P. Lely at Newcal‘tle-houfe—
3d painting—both lord and lady Ogle’s
pictures.

“ Nov. My dear heart and {elf and for;
Charles law at Mr. 1' Walton’s the lady Car-

' This and other circumﬂances in thefe notes con-
ﬁrm Graham’s account of the regard the clergy had
for Beale and his wife. There are {everal prints of
Tillotfon and other divines from her paintings, which
have much nature, but the colouring is heavy and Riff,
her nfual merit and faults. I

1* Keeper of the King’s piélures. ,

1131‘ VOH S

' “ta—~42 .

\ Painter: in the Reign of Cbarle: II. 139

narvon’s pié‘ture half-length, by Vandyk in

blue fatin, a mol’c rare complexion exceed-
ing ﬂefhy done without any fhadow. It was
lately bought by Mr. Riley for 351. alfo
another lady in blue fatin, another lady,
black; others, and a rare head by Holben
of the lord Cromwell Hen. VIII. dayes.

“ Feb. 11, 1680-1. ‘Mr. Soef’t the pain-'-
ter died. Mr. Fleﬂiere the frame-maker
faid he believed he was neare 80 years old
when he died. ,h) - i

“ April 1681. l’aid by Mr. Hancock’s
order for two quarters expence at Clare-hall
for my {on for half a year’s charges enﬁing
at Lady-day 121. 2:. 64’. paid the fame fum
at Clare—hall.

“ Paid my fon Charles for what he had
done to the piétures of lord and lady Ogle
at Newcaﬁle—houfe, after Sr. P. Lely.

“ Our worthy friend the dean of Peter-
burgh Moor’s pié‘ture, one of the belt pic-
tures for painting and likenefs my deareﬁ:
ever did.

“ Dec. 1631. l‘vlr. Flatman’s pifture
ﬁnilht. Lent Thomas Flatman, efq; my

wife’s

34¢ 1342‘»th in 1116. ﬁeﬁg» 13f Cbaxle: II;

yife’ s eoppy in link half—length 9f the
' counteis of Noitlmmberland’ s piéture after
$131): Lely. . a

‘ ' “ Piélures begun in 1681, Lady Dix-
-WCIL' Dr.» Nicholas. Earl of Shafdbury
half-length for lord Paget. -DU‘ChCﬁI. of
Newcaﬁle hql ‘l Wf'DQan; &c. in all
muting to 2991.17 .1.” At the end of
{has book Joyce noges in fhort charzéters of
monies pm ingo the poor’ 3 box for charitable
.ufes, thefe good people beﬁowing this my
aboutcwo {billings 1n eke pound. * ,~

. ‘Mrs. Beale died 1n Pall mall at Ithe age
pfﬁ, Dec. 28, 1697, and was buried under
the communion—table in St_._ James’s—ehurch.
Her fon Bartholomew had no inclination
{or painting, and relinquiﬂaingith’cudied
fhyﬁc under Dr. Sydenham,‘zind praéticed
at Coventry where he and his father died.
The (>er {on ~

  
 

 

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* Mr G. Ste-evens has a 'qu’arto volume of {ladies 1n
.rcd chalk b'yl Mrs Beale 141d her {011 Charles. Several
~ by her from natme, V2.1 d}. k and Lely , are highly
.£niﬂ1ed 311d very lively, th 1’ hard, and the drawing not

very cOrrcﬁ. There is nothingbut human ﬁgures.

CHARLES

Paimrs in Wild?” 'ef Cbarles 115-1. tax

CH‘ARLES BEALE

Who Was’bo‘rh May 98,1660, painted both
in oil and water—colours, but moﬁzly indie
latter, in which he copied the portrait of
Dr. Tillotfon. His cypher he wrote thus
on his works C3. The weaknefs in his
eyes did not quer him to continue his

‘ profeﬂion above four or ﬁve years. He

lived and died over—againﬁ: St. Clement’s at
Mr. Wilfon’s a banker, who became pol"-
feITed of feveral of his piéhrres for debt; par-4
ticularly of a double half—length of his father
and mother, and a ﬁngle one of his mother,
all by Lely. I have Mrs. Beale’s head and
her fon’s Charles’s, in crayons by her, they
were V ertue’ 3: And her own and her fon’ s,
in water-colours, {trongly painted, but not {0
free as the crayons.

ELIZABETH NEAL

15 only mentioned in De Bie’s Golden Ca—
binet, publifhed in 1662; he {peaks of her
as

. I42 Painter: in tbe Reign of Charles II. "
as reﬁding in Holland, and fays {he painted
ﬂowers f0 well, that ﬂue was Likely to rival-
their famous Zeghers ; but he does not fpe- '
cify whether (he worked in oil or water~
colours.

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ANECDoTEs of PAINTING, 59’s,

CHAP. II.

Statuaries, Carvers, Architeﬂs, and Medal-
Ii/ls, in the Reign of Charles II.

THOMAS BURMAN

S only known by being the maﬁa of
Bufhnell, and by his epitaph in the
church—yard of Covent-garden ;

“ Here lyes interred Thomas Burman,
fculptor, of the parifh of St. Martin’s in the
Fields, who departed this life March 17th,
167 3 4., aged 56 years.”

He is mentioned above in Mr. Beale’s
notes for executing a tomb at Walton upon
Thames.

BOWDEN,LATHAM,md
BONNE,

Three obfcure f’tatuaries in this reign, of
whom I ﬁnd few particularS} the M was a
I 2 captain

I44. Watuaries, Carvers, ﬂrcbz'teﬁs, and

captain of the trained-bands, and was emol

.ployedi'at Wilton"; .fo r was * Latham ; his
portrait leaning’on a buf’c was painted by
Fuller. Latham and Bonhe worked together
on the monument of Archbifhop Sheldon.
The ﬁgure of John Sobiefki which was
bought by Sr. Robert Vyner and fet up at
Stock’s—market for Charles II. came over un-
ﬁnifhed, and a new head was added by La-

~tham, but the Turk on whom Sobiefki was
trampling remained with the whole groupe, .

till removed to 'make way for the lord-
mayor’s manﬁonahoufe.

’WILLIAM EMMETT

Was :fculptor to the ‘ crown before Gibbons,
and had fucceeded his uncle, one Philips.

There is a podr mezzotinto of Emmett by
himfelf. ‘

" I fuppofe this is the fame perfon who petitioned
the council of ﬁate after the death of Cromwell, for
goods belonging to the king, which he had purchafed,
and the protector detained. See Vol. II. -p. 1 18. of
this work.

CAIUS

Mama, '1‘” the Reign of came: Ina r45 "

CAIUS GABRIEL CIBBER,
or CIBERT,

Son _of a cabinet-maker to the king of Den—
mark, was born at Flenfburg in the duchy of
Holﬁein, and difcovering a talent for fculp‘
ture was fent at the king’s expence to Rome.
More of his early hiﬂory is not knowna He
came to England not long before‘the Re-
i_ Iteration, and worked for John Stone, {on
of Nicholas, who going to Holland, and
being feized with a palfey, Cibber his fore-*-
man was fent to conduct him. home. We
are as much in the dark as to the ref’t of his
life; that ﬁngularly—pleaﬁng biographer his
fon, who has digniﬁed fo many triﬂing
Anecdotes of players by the expreﬁive
energy of his Ptyle, has recorded nothing
of a father’s life who had ﬁich merit in his
profeﬁion. I can only ﬁnd that he was twice .
married, and that by his fecond wife de-
fcended from the ancient family of * Colley
‘in

* By this alliance his children were kinfmen to ”Wile

liam of Wickham, and on that foundation one of them
VOLo III. K (afterwards

m..w.w u‘-~__. . to

146 gfdiudriei, Carvers, Arrbz'teﬁs, and

in Rutlandlhire, he had 6000!. and feveral
childrgn,» among .whom was the well—known
laureat, born in 1671 at his Father’s in South-
ampton-Ptreet facing Southampton-houfe.
Gabriel Cibber the ﬁatuary was carver to
the king’s elof'et and died about 17-00 at the
age of 70. His fon had a portrait of him
by old Laroon, with a medal in his hand. I
have one in water—colours with a pair of
compaﬁ‘es, by Chrif’tian Richter ; probably a
copy from the former, with a ﬂight variation.
What is wanting in circnmftances is more
than compenfated by his works. The moﬂ:
capital are the two ﬁgures of melancholy and
raving madnefs before the front of Bedlam.
The bafreliefs * on two {ides of the monu-'
ment are by his hand too. So are the foun-
tain in Soho-fquare, and one of the ﬁne vafes
at Hampton-court, {aid to be done in com-

(iftenvards a fellow of New -coliege Oxford and re-
markable {or his wit) was admitted of W inchefler C01-
1-; ge- , in conﬁderation of which the father can ed and
gave to that lbciéty a ﬂame of their founder.

‘ A dcfcription of them may be feen in the new ac-
count of London and the environs. Vol. v. p. 3. One
of the ﬂatues was the portrait of Oliver Cromweil’s
porter, then in Bedlam. . .

petition

Medallﬂws, ii: the Reign of came: If?“ :47
petition with a foreigner 'who executed the
other, but nobody has told us Which is Gib:
ber’s. He carved moﬂ of the ﬂames OS
kings round the ReyaLexehange, as far as
king Chaiﬂes, and that of Sir Thomas Gref-
him in the piazza beneath. The ﬁrﬂ duke
of Devonﬂiire employed him much at Chatil
worth; where two fphinxes on large bafes,
well executed and with ornaments in good
taf’te, are of his work, and till very lately
there Was a ﬂame of Neptune in a fountain,
{till better. He carved there feveral.door'-
cafes of alabaﬁer with rich foliage, and many
ornaments in the Chapel; and on each lick:
of the altar is a ﬂatue by him, Faith and
Hope ; the draperies have great merit, but
the airs of the heads are not f0 good as that
of the Neptune. * Cibber built the Danifh
church in London and was buried there him-
felf', with his fecondwife, for whom a menu—
ment was erected in 1696. The fon willrbe
known as long as the Carelefs Huiband and

* He gave a flame of William of VVickhani to thé'
college at V‘Vincheﬂer ; and executed fome flames for

the, library of Trinity-college, Cambridge.
V'. Life of Colley Cibber, chap. 3d.

K 2 the

I48 Kmtuarigs, Carvers, Architeﬁs, and

the Memoires of his own Life exilt, and fo
long'the injuﬁice of calling the ﬁgures at
Bedlam

--—-— his brazen brainlefs brothers,
, and tilt: peevifh weaknefs of thrul’ting him
into the Dunciad in the room of Theobald,
the proper hero, will be notorious.

FRANCISDU SARTi

Of Hanau, is mentioned in De Bie’s Golden"
Cabinet, who fays, he was employed by the-
king of England to adorn his palace with
works in marble and models in? clay, and
that he died in London 1661. It is uncer-
tain whether this king was Charles the ﬁrl’t,
or whether Du Sart came over, and died foon
after the Ref’toration.

GRINLING are GIBBONS,”

Anloriginal genius, a citizen of nature;_
confequently, it is indifferent where {he

* So he wrote his name himfelf, and not Grizzlin, as
it is on his print.

produced

Meade/25, in ,7... Reign of Charles it. I 49

produced him. When a man ﬁrikes out
novelty from himfelf, the place of his birth
has little claim on his merit. Some become
great poets or great painters becaufe their
talents have capital models before their
eyes. An inventor is equally a mailer, whe-
ther born in Italy or Lapland. There is
no inftance of a man before Gibbons who
gave to wood the loofe and airy lightnefs of
ﬂowers, and chained together the various
productions of the‘elements with a free dif-
Order natural to each fpecies: Vertue had
received two diﬁerent accounts of his birth;
from Murray the painter, that he was born
in‘Holland of Englifh parents, and came
over at the age of nineteen; from Stoakes
(relation of the Stones) that his father was
a Dutchman, but that Gibbons himfelf was
born in Spur—alley} in the Strand. This is
circumftantial, andth the former teftimony
feems molt true, as Gibbons is an Englifh
name, and Grinli’ng probably Dutch. He
afterwards lived, added S’toakes, in Bellcfa-
vage—court on Ludgate-hill, where he carv-
ed a pot of flowers which {hook furprizing’ly

' K 3 with

150 SWuarigs, Carma, ﬁcbiteﬁs, and

with the motion of the coaches that paﬂ'ed
by. It is certain that he- was employed by
Eetterton, on the decorations of the Theatre
in Dorle't-garden, where he carved the ca~ ,
pitfalls, comic-es, and eagles. He lived af-
terwards at Deptford, in the fame houfe with
a muﬁcian, where the beneﬁcent and curious
Mr. Evelyn, found and - patronized them
both. This gentleman, Sir Peter Lely, and
Bap May, who was, fomething of an archi‘
tea; himfelf, recommended Gibbons to
Charles. II. who. though too indolent to
fearch fox: genius, and too indifcriminate
in, his bounty to conﬁne it to; merit, was, 211—-
ways pleafed, when it was brought home to
him. He gave the artiﬁ: a. place in the
boardof works, and employed his hand on
the ornaments of molt taﬁe in his palaces,
particularly at \Vindfor, where in the chapel
the ﬁmplicity of the carver’s foliage at once.
fets off and atones for the glare of Verrio’s,
paintings. Gibbons in gratitude made. a
prefent of his own buﬂ: in wood to Mr.
Evelyn who kept it at his houfe in Dover’
ﬁrcet. The piece that had {truck f0 good a

judge

w

Medallzﬂr,‘ in the Reign of Charles II. ‘15:
judge was a‘ large carying in wood of St.
Stephen ﬁnned, long preferved in the {culp-
tor’s own houfe, and afterwards, purchafed
and placed by the duke of Chandas at Can-
nons. At Windfor too, Gibbons, whéfe art
penetrated all materials, carVed that beau-
tiful pedeﬁa'l in marble for the e’queﬁria'n‘ *
ﬂame of the king in the principal court.
The fruit, ﬁﬂa, implernents of fhipping are

* Under the ﬂatue is an engine for raiﬁng water con-
trived by Sir Samel Morland alias Morley; he was
{on of Sir Samuel Morland of Snlhamﬁed Baniﬂ‘er in
the county of Berkfhire, created a baronet by'Cha‘rl/e's II.
in canﬁderation of {ex-vices performed during the king’s
exile. The {on was a great mechanic; and was pre-
{ented with a gold medal, and made Magia‘le‘r Mecha-
nicorum by the king in 1681. He invented the delim-
capﬁands for weighing heavy anchor-s ; and the {peak-
ing trumpet, and other ufeﬁrll engines. He died and
was buried at Hammerfmith in Middlefex 1696. There
is a monument for the two wives of Sir Samuel Moro
land in Weitminiler-abbey. His arms were fable 3
leopard’s head jeﬁ'ant a ﬂeur de lys, or. There is.
a print of the {on by Lombart after Lely. This Sir
Samuel built a large room in his-garden at Van-hall,
which was much admired at that time; en the top was
a punchinello holding a dial. See Aubrey’s Survey,
Vol. i. p. 12.

K 4. all

0

1-52 'Statuarier, Gamers, Arcbitefi‘s, and

all 'exq'uiﬁte :- the?" man and horfe may
fervefor a ﬁgn to draw_ a pail’enger’s eye to
the pedei’tal. The bafe of the ﬁgure at
Charing-icrofs was the work of this artii’t;
{0 was the T ﬂame of Charles II. at the
Royal-exchange -—but' the talent of Gib—
bons; though he praéticed in all kinds, did
not reach to human ﬁgUres, 'unlefs the brazen
{tattle 'of James II. in the Privy—garden be,
as I. have reafon to believe it, of his hand.
There is great cafe in the attitude, 'and .a,
‘elaﬂic ﬁmplicity. Vertue met.with an
agreement, ﬁgned by Gibbons himfelf, for a
ﬁatue Of James II. the price 3001. half to

‘ 0n the hoof of the horfe, fays Pote, is call Joﬁas
Ibaeh Stada, Bramenﬁs. This laﬁ word lhould be
Bremenﬁs. I know nothing more of this Ibach Stada.
V. Hillory and Antiq. of VVindlbr-caﬁle, p. 38. Gib-
bons made a deﬁgn for the ﬂames in the intended
Maufoleum of Charles I. by Sir Chr. Wren. V. Pa-
rentalia, p. 332. in the margin.

’ 1- Vertue lays, the king gave Gibbons an excluﬁve
licence for ~thje {ole printing of this ﬂatue, and prohi-
biting allperfons to engrave it without his leave ; and
yet, adds my author, though undertaken by Gibbons, it
was actually executed by Qgellin of Antwerp, who
will be mentioned hereafter.

be

Medalliﬂs, in he Reign of Charles II. t g 3

be paid .down on ﬁgning the agreement;
50]. more at the end of three months, And
the’reft when the ﬂame lhOUId be compleat
and ereéted. Annexed were receipts for the
ﬁrf’t 9.001. Aug. 11, I687.~ The paymaf’cer
Tobias Rultat. * ‘

Gibbons made a magniﬁcent tomb for
Baptil’c Noel Vifcount Camden, in the
church of Exton in Rutlandlhire; it coli:
1000 Z. is 22 feet high,-and 14 wide. There

* One might aﬂt whether Vertue did not in halte
write James II. for Charles II. The ﬂame of the lat-
ter at Chelfea-college is laid to be the gift of this
Rnl’tat; and one lhould doubt whether he paid for a
ﬂame of the king in his own garden—but as Charles II,
permitted {uch an aft of loyalty in the court at Wind-
for, perhaps his brother was not more diﬁicult. 1- I am
the rather inclined to attribute the ﬂame at Whitehall
to Gibbons, becaufe I know no other artill of that time
capable of it.

+ Both did accept {Jch a prefent. In Pcck’s Deﬁd. C‘uriofa,
yol. ii. p. 53, is a litt' of the charities and benefaétions. of Tobias
Bufiat, lLCLfgf of Hampton Court, and yeoman .of the robes to
Charles II. before and after his ref’toration. Among others [is this '
czztry, “ A free gift to their hiajefliesK. Charles ll. and KJamesIl.
of their ﬂames in brafs; the former placed upon a pedeﬁal in the
royal hnfpital a: Circllea, and the other in \Vhitehalloone thoufand
g" Lands."

arc

i 1 54 32mm”, Carvem, ﬁcbiteﬁs, and
are two ﬁgures of him, and this lady, and
bafreliefs of their children. The fame work— ,
man performed the wooden throne at Can~
terbury, which‘ colt 70 i. and was the do«
nation of archbifhop Tenifon; The. fold.
age, in the choir of St. Paul’s is of his
hand. At Burleigh is a noble profuﬁon of
his carving, in picture—frames, chimney;
pieces, and clear—cafes, and the laft Supper
in also relievo, ﬁnely executed. At Chatf.
worth, where a like taﬁek collected orna-
ments by the moft eminent living mailers,
are many by Gibbons, particularly in the
chapel 5 in the great anti—chamber are fed
veral dead fowl over the chimney, ﬁnely
executed, and over a clofet-door, a pen
not diffinguifhable from real feather. When
Gibbons had ﬁniﬂied his works in that pa-
lace, he prefented the duke with a point
cravat, a woodcock, and a medal with his
own'head, all prefervcd in a glafs cafe in
the gallery. I have another point cravat
by him, the art of which arrives even to
deception, and Herodias with St. John’s
head, alto relievo in ivory, In Thorefby’s
collection

Medallzﬂs, 2'21 the Reign of Charles II‘. :55

collection, was Elijah under the junipentree
fuppbrted by an Angel, ﬁx inches long and
{our wide. * At Houghton two chimneys
are adorned with his foliage. “ At Mr. Nor-
ton’s at Southwick in Hampfhire was a.
whole gallery embroidered in pannels by
his hand—but the moﬂ: fuperb monument
of his {kill is a large chamber at Petworth'
enriched from the Cieling, between the
pictures, with feftoons of ﬂowers and dead
game, &c. all in- the higheﬂ. perfection and
prefervation. Aﬁpendant to one is an an-
tique-f vafe with a baﬁrelief, of the pureﬂt
taﬁe, and worthy the Grecian age of Cameos.
Selden, one of his difciples and afﬁﬂants-~~
for what one hand could execute fuch
plenty of laborious productions ?-—loﬁ: his
life in fav'mg this carving when the feat was
on ﬁre. The font in St. James’s—church
was the work of Gibbons.

* DucatusLeodiegﬁs p. 4.88.

+ At the earl of Halifax’s at Stanﬂead is another
chimney-piece, adorned with ﬂowers and two beautiful
vafes.

If

56 Sfafuaries, Carvers, Arcbz‘teﬁr, and.

If thefe encomiums * are exaggerated,
the works are extant to contradie‘h m’e.’ Lei;
.us now fee how well qualiﬁed a man,‘ who
vaun-ts his haviRg" been in England, was; to
fpeak of'Gibbons. It isthe author of the

Abrege whom I have frequently mentioned.’

“ Les Anglois, 1' fays‘he, n’ont eu qu’un
bon fculpteur, nomme Gibbons, mais il
n’etoit pas excellent. La ﬁgure de marbre
dc Charles II. placée au- milieu de la bourfe
i LOndres eit de fa main‘.” What would
this author have {aid of him,‘ if he had
waited his art on ribbands and ‘ringlets ﬂow—

ing in one blended {tream from the laurel

of Louis XIV. to the tip of his horfe’s
tail 3 I '

Gibbons died Aug. 3d, 1721, at his
houfe in Bow-ﬁreet, Covent-garden, and in
November of the following year, his col-
leétion, a very conﬁderable one,‘ of pie-

' Tate wrote a poem on the ﬁght ofa bui‘c m marble
of Gibbons.

f V'ol. 1i. p. 2:6.

I This is literally the cafe in the equef‘trian itatue at
Lyons.

tures,

I

ya ~w—

qulliﬂxy in ﬁve Reign of 0mm II. I 57

tures, "models, 856. was Told by auction.
Among other things were two chimney~
pieces of his own work, the one valued at
1001. the other ~at 120; lgs own bull in
marble, by himfelf, but the wig and cravat
extravagant; and an original of Simon the
engraver by Sir Peter Lely, which had been -
much damaged by the fall of Gibbons’s
houfe.

There are two different prints of Gibbons
by Smith, both ﬁne 5 the one with his wife,
after Clof’terman ; the other from a picture
at Houghton by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Who
has fhown himfelf as great in that portrait as
the man who fat to him.

Gibbons had feveral difciples and work.-
men; Selden I have mentioned; VVatfon
aflii’ted chieﬂy at Chatfworth, where the
boys and many of the ornaments in the
chapel were executed by him. Dievot of
BruITels, and Laurens of Nlechlin were
principal journeymenﬂVertue fays, they
modelled and call; the ﬁatue I have men-
tioned in the Privy-garden, which confirms
my conjecture of its being the ﬁgure in-

8 tended

'1 58 Statazzriw; We, zfrcﬁfeﬁx, am!
tended in the agreement; If either of them
modeiied it, and not Gibbons himfelf, the
true attii’c deferves to be known. They both
retired to'their ﬁ’wn countfy on the Revolu—
tion'; Laurens perfermed much both in Pta-
tuary and in wood, and grew rich; Dievet
lived till 17 x 5 and died at Mechlin.

LEWIS PAYNE

Engraved two ﬁgnet ﬂals {01 Charles II. to
be ufed 1n Scotland by the duke of Lauder-
dale. D1. Rawlinfon had the oxiginal war-
rant for them ﬁgned by the king; one was
to have been in Reel, the other in ﬁlver.
At top was the draught and magnitude,
neatly drawn, and a memorandum that they
were ﬁnifhed and delivered in Oc’t. 1678.

.r[ R C H I.

ﬂiedallgﬂs, in tire Reign‘qf Cherie: II. 1759

ARCHITECTURa

Though in general the taﬁe was bad, and
corrupted by imitations of the French, yet; I
as- it produced St. Paul’s, may be faid to
have ﬂouriﬂied in this reign : whole ”coun—
tries, an age often gets a name for one capi-
' tal work. Before I come to Sir Chriﬂopher
Wren, I muf’t difpatch his feniors. '

JOHN WERE

A name well-known as a fcholar of Inigo
jones, and yet I cannOt ﬁnd any particulars
of his life. * He built the feat of lord
Mountford at Horfeheath in Cambridge-
{hire and added the portico to the Vine
,in Hampfhire for Chaloner Chute, fpeaker
to Richard Cromwell’s parliament, and

* He married a niece of Inigo Jones, and left a {on
named James, who lived at Burieigh in Somerfetfhire. -
The father died in 1672, aged 61.

6 now

1'60 Statuarirr, Carvers, Architeﬁs, am!

now belonging to his ,defcendant Job-If
Chute, efq. Ambreibury in Wiltﬂiire was
eXecutedby' him from the deﬁgns of, his
mailer. Mr. Talman had a quarto volume,-
containing drawings ,in Indian ink of ca-s
pitals and other ornaments in architecture,
which Webb had executed 1n feveral houfes.
The fioiitifpiece (cohtaining architecture
and ﬁgures) to Walton’s Polyglot Bible,
was deﬁgned by Webb, and etched by Hol-
lar. Vertue fays, that Mr. Mills, one of
the four {Lirveyors appointed after the ﬁre
of London, built the large houfes in (Lueen-
ﬁreet, Lincoln’s—inn-ﬁelds—but this niul’t be‘
a miftake, as we have feen in the preceding
volume, that Gerbier, a; cotemporary and--
rival, afcribed them to Webb. Gerbier’s
own feholar was

Captain VVILLIAMr VVINDE,

Who was born at Bergen op zoom. His
performances were, the houfe at Cl c 11:11,
the duke of Newcaﬁles in L1r1oln s inn-

ﬁelds,

Medal/M5, in tlve Reign‘of Charles II". i6 1
ﬁelds, Coomb- abbey for lord Craven, and
he ﬁnifhed Hempﬁead Marfhal for the fame
peer, which had been begun bv his matter,
and 1n the plans of which he made fthral
alterations.» In his fon’s fale of drawings
'and prints in 1741 were feveral of the fa~
ther’s deﬁgns for both thefe latter houfcs.
They were dated from 1663 to 16 9 5.

MARSH,

Says Vertue, deﬁgned the-additional build-
ings at Bolfover, ereé‘ted after the Ref’tora—
tion, and was the architeét of Nottingham-
caftle. Salmon in his account of Effex,
p. 329, mentions a Dr. Morecroft, who he
fays died 1n 1677, as architect of the manor-
; houfe of F 1tzwalters

VOL. 111. L Monﬁeur

162 Siatixarkr, 6mm, Ambitéﬂr, mid

Monﬁeur P O U G E T,

A French architect, conducted the build;
ing of Montagu-houfe in 1678. What it
wants in graCe and beauty, is compenfated
by the {pacioufnefs and lofty magniﬁcence
of the apartments. It is now the Britifh
Mufeum.

Sir -CH-RISTOPHER WREN

Is placed here, as his career was Opened
' under Charles II.—The length of his life
enriched the reigns of feveral princes-and
difgraced the * laf‘t of them. A variety of'
knowledge proclaims the univerfality, a
multiplicity of works the abundance, St..
Paul’s the greatnefs of Sir Chriitopher’s;
genius. The. nobleft temple, the largeﬂrr
palace, the moﬁ; fumptuous hofpital in fuchsl

* At the age of 86 he was removed from being fang--
veyor—general of the works by George I. !

7 a king»

Medal-[wait the Reign #Ciarle: H. 1‘63

a kingdom as Britain, are * all works of the
fame hand. He '1' ‘rei‘cored London, and res
corded its fall; I do not mean to be very
minute in the account of Wren even as an
architect. EVery circumﬁance of his my
has been written» and lepeated. Bifhop Sprat,
Anthony Wood, Ward in his lives of the
Grefham Profeﬂ'ors, the General Dictionary,
and the New DefcriptiOn of London and
the Environs, both in the hands of every
body, are voluminous on the article of Sir
Chriﬂ0pher: above all" a defcendant of his
own has given us a folio, called Parentalia,
which leaves nothing to be deﬁred on this
fubjeét. Yet, in a work of inch :1 nature
as this, men would be difappointed, fhould
they turn to it, and receive no ﬁtisfaétion.
They muft be gratiﬁed, though my province
becomes little more than that of a meer
_ tranfcriber.

Sir Chril’copher Wren, of an ancient fa-
xmily in the BlﬂlOPl'le of Durham, was for;

* St. Paul’s, Hampton-court, and Greenwich.
1- He built above ﬁfty par’iih churches, and deﬁgned
(the monument. -
- L 2 of

_ A ‘.____—u.a. «ere/2m-

‘
I64. Statuarier, Carvers, Architeﬁs, and

of a clean of thfor,‘ and nephew of Mat-
thew, b’ifhop,“ fucceﬂively; ‘of ' HerefOrd,
Norwich, Ely. ‘He . was born at London in
1632, and educated :at Oxford. ' "His ma-
thematical abilities unfolded themfelves fo
early, that by twenty he was elected pro-
.feﬁ‘or of aﬁzronomy at‘Greﬂiam-college, and
eight years afterwards S‘avilian profeﬂ'or of
Iaftronomy at Oxford. His difcoveries in
'Iphilofophy, mechanics, &c. contributed to
the reputation of the new—eﬁablilhed ROyal-
fociety, and his {kill in architecture had
Vraifed his own name fo‘ high, that in the
«ﬁrl’c year. of the Rei‘toration he ~was ap-
pointed coadjutor to Sir John‘ DEnhain fura
veyor of the works, Whom he fucceeded in
1668. Three years before that he had
Viﬁted France—and unfortunately went no
farther—the great number of drawings he
made there from their buildings, had but
~too viﬁble influence on fome of his own
;—-—but it was fo far lucky for Sir Chril’to—
pher, that Louis XIV. had erected pa-
.laces only, no churches. St. Paul’s efcaped,

‘ but

Medalliﬂs, iii tbe Reignof Cbarlw H; 165:

but * Hampton-court was facriﬁced‘to the-
god of falfe tafte. ,In 1680 he was chofen
preﬁdent of the Royal fociety; was in two
parliaments, was twice married, had two
fons and a daughter, and died 1' in 1723,;
at the, age of ninety-one, having lived to
. fee the completion of St. Paul’s; a fabric,
and an event, which one cannot wonder left
fuch an imprefﬁon of content on the mind
of the good old man, that being carried to
fee it once a year, it—feemed to recall a me-
mory that was almolt deadened to every
other ufe. He was buried under his own
fabric, with four words that comprehend his
merit and his fame, ﬁ quaeras monumentum,
circumfpice ’

Beﬁdes, from his works j: m architecture,

* I have been aﬂiired by a defcendant of Sir Chrif—
topher, that he gave another deﬁgn for Hampton-court
in a better taﬁc, which queen Mary Wilhed to have had
executed, but was over-ruled.

1- Elkanah Settle publilhed a funeral poem on him,
called Threnodia Apollinaris ; there is another in Latin
in the Parentalia.

: He wrote a poem, publilhed in a colleé‘tion at Ox—
ford, on the revival of Anne Green.

L 3 which

166 swarm, em'm, mamas, m

which I am going to mention, Wren is in-
titled to a place in this catalogue by his
talent for deﬁgn. He drew a view of Wind-
for, which was engraved by Hollar ; and
eight or ten plates for Dr. Willis’s anatomy
of the brain 1664. Venue thinks they
were engraved by Loggan. He found out
a fpeedy way of etching, and was the in—
ventor of drawingpié‘tures by microfcopic
glaﬂ'es; and he {hys himfelf, ‘that’ he in-
vented ferpentine-rivers. His other dif-
coveries 17 may be feen at large in the au-4
them I have quoted._ His principal build‘
ings were, i

The Library of Trinity-college, C 21m-
bridge, and a piece of architecture oppoﬁte
to it, to. difguil'e the irregularity of that
end. Over the library are four ﬁgures by
C ibber,

" Parentalia p. 1-4:.

1- Among them is reckoned the invention of" mez-
zotinto, which. fome fay he imparted to prince Rupert ;-
but the moﬂ common and cotemporary reports give the
honour to the prince 'himfelf; as will be {ecu in his ar-
ticle, in the volume of Engravers,

‘ The

Mlliﬁr, m the Reign of Gbarle: II. {57

The Chapel of Pembroke-hall.

The Theatre at Oxford. *

The Tower of St. Dunfian’s—church, at»
tempted in the Gothic £3:er with very poor
fuccefs.

The 1' Church of St. Mary at Warwick,
in the fame manner, but {till worfe. Yet he
was not always fo wide of his mark.

The great Campanile at Chriit-church
Oxford is noble, and though not fo light
as a gothic architect would perhaps have

* He was confulted, and advifed fome alterations in
a plan of the Chapel at Trinity-college Oxford. This
was not worth mentioning withregard to Sir Chrif'to-
pher, but was neceﬂary to introduce the name of Dr.
Aldrich who not only deﬁgned that Chapel, hut alfo
the Church of All-faints Oxford. A circumﬁance we
learn from the life of Dr. Bathurft, P p. 68, 71. by the
ingenious Mr. Thomas Warton, to whom the public
has many obligations, and the Editor of this work [till
greater. ‘

1- I have been informed, fmce the ﬁrﬂ edition ofthis
work, by Sir Chriﬂopher’s defcendant, that the tower
only of this Church as it is at prefent was deﬁgned by
his grandfather, A ﬁre happened in the Church, and
the damaged parts were reﬁored by one F raucéis Smith,
a mafon in the town, who had alfo executed the tower,
in which he made feveral miﬂakes.

L 4 formed

I68 Samaria, Carvers, drebz'teﬁs, and -

formed it, does not difgrace the modern.
His want of mile in that ancient ﬁyle is
the bell: excufe for another fault, the union
of Grecian and Gothic. The Ionic Colo-a
nade that croITes the inner quadrangle of
Hampton-court is a glaring blemifh by it’s
want of harmony with the rePc of VVolfeyTs‘
fabric. Kent was on the point of repeat-
ing'this incongruity in the fame place in the
late reign, but was over—ruled by my fa—
ther. '

Chrif’t—church-hofpital London re—built,
and the old Cloyﬁer repaired by him.

St. Mary-le-bow. The ﬁeeple is much
admired—for my part I never faw a beau-
tiful moderniteeple. They are of Gothic
origine, and have frequently great merit
either in the ,folid dignity Of towers, or in
the airy form of taper fpires. When broken
into unmeaning parts, as thofe erected in
later times are, they are a pile of barbardus
uglinefs, and deform the temples to which
they are coupled. Sir Chrii’topher has
{hown how fenﬁble he was of this abfurdity

impofed

Madam/ts, in the Reign of Charles II. 169'
impofed on him by cui’tom, by avoiding it
in his next beautiful work, ‘

St. Stephen Walbroke~but in vain-the
Lord mayor’s manﬁon- houfe has‘ revenged
the caufe of ﬁeeples.

The new royal apartments at Hampton—
court.

Greenwich- hofpital.

Chelfea-hofpital. .

The palace at VVinchef’ter—one of the
* uglieﬂ: piles of building in the iﬂand. It is
a royal manﬁon running backward upon a
precipice, and has not an inch of garden or
ground belonging to it. Charles II. chofe‘
the {pot for health, and prefTed 1‘ Sir Chrif~
topher to have it ﬁnifhed in a year. The
impropriety of the fituation and the haf’te of
the execution are fome excufe for the archi-
tect—but Sir Chriﬁ0pher was not happy
in all kind of buildings. He had great
abilities rather than taﬁe, When he has
Ihewed the latter, it was indeed to advan-

* There is a copy of verfes {till worfe in their‘kihd,
in praife of this building, in the fecond part of Dry-
den’s Mifcellanies.

1‘ V. Life of Sir Dudley North.

- tage.

:70 Samaria, 64mm, Arrbiteﬂs, am?

tage. The circular porticos and other parts
of St. Paul’s are truly gracefull; and {0
many great architects as were employed on
St. Peter’s have not left it upon the whole a
more perfect ediﬁce than this work of a
lingle mind. The gawdinefs of the Romifh
religion has given St. Peter’s one of it’s
chief advantages. The excels of plainnefs
in our cathedral difappoints the fpeétator
after'fo rich an approach. The late prince
of Wales, Ihave heard, intended to intro~
duce tombs into it, and to begin with that
of his grandfather. Conﬁdering that Well-
minﬁer—abbey is overﬂocked, and that the
melt venerable monuments of antiquity are
daily removed there to make room for mo-
dern (a precedent that one {hould think
would dii‘courage even the modems from
dealing with the chapter) St. Paul’s would
aflbrd a new theatre for ﬁatuaries to exert
their genius *-——and the Abbey would ﬁill
i preferve

“ Sir jofhua Reynolds, Mr.’WeR, and others of'onr
principal painters, offered to adorn St. Paul’s with pic-
tures by their own hands and at their own expence;
but the generous deiign was quaihed by a late prelate—
a memorable abi‘urdity, that at an aera in which the

Romﬁh

Medalli/is, ii: the Reigiz of Charles II. 17 i

'pr'eferve it’s general cuﬁomers, by new re-
cruits of waxen puppets. The towers of the
laﬂ: mentioned fabric, and the propofed fpire
were deﬁgned by Sir Chril’topher.

The Monument. The archite&’s inten-
tion was to ereél: the ﬂame of Charles II.
on the fummit, inﬁead of that ﬁlly pot of
ﬂames ; but was over-ruled, as he often was
by very inferiOr judgments. '

The Theatre in Drury-lane; and the old
Theatre in Salifbury~court. The ref’t of his
Churches, publications, deﬁgns, &e. may be
feen at large in the Parentalia. Among
the latter was the mauf'oleum of Charles I.
It was curious piety in Charles II. to ‘ereél; a
monument for the imaginary bones of Ed—
ward V. and his brother, and to ﬁnk 70,000 I.
aé‘tually given by parliament for a tomb for
his father!

Many drawings by Sir Chrif’topher, parti-
cularly for St. Paul’s, were fold in his fon’s
auétion a few years ago.

Romifh faith received toleration from the gbvcrnment.
its more harmlefs decorations ihould be profcribed!

The

172 Statuari‘e's, Carvef:,-2ﬂchireﬂr, am!“

The medall-if’ts in this reign lie inarnarrow
compafs, but were not the worﬁ Artiﬁs.

,Th'e RoTIERs

Were a family of medallif‘ts The father,
a goldfmith and banker, aﬂiﬁed Charles II.

with money during his exile, in return for
~ which the king promifed, if he was rel’cored,

to employ his fons, who were all gravers of
feals and coins. The Reﬁoration hap-
pened , and Charles, difcontent with the
inimitable Simon, who had ferved Cromwell
and the Republic, fent for Rotier’s fons;
The two eldeﬁ, John and Joieph, arrived
(not entirely with their father’ s .confent, who
wifhed to have them fettle in France, of
which I fuppofe he was a native). They
were immediately placed in the mint, and
allowed a falary and a home, where they foon
grew rich, being allowed 20o] for each
broad feal, and gaining 3001. ayear by vend—

ing great numbers of medals abrOad. On
their fuccefs, Philip the third brother came

OTC?

Medallé/ls, in the Reign of Cbarles II. I 7 3

over, and worked for the government too.
.He is the onlyaone‘Of the three, though John
was reckoned the belt artif‘t, who has leftvhis
name *or initials on any of our medals ; and
he it was, I believe, who being in love with
the fair Mrs. Stuart 'duchefs of Richmond, 1-
xeprefented her likenefs, under the form of
Britannia, on the reverfe of a. large medal
with the king’s head. Simon, difcontent with
fome reafon at the preference of fuch infe-
rior : performers, made the famous crown-
piece, which though it did not explode the
others, recovered his own falary, and from
that time he and his rivals lived amicably to-
gether. It was more than they themfelves
did. John had three fons, the eldeft of which
he loft, but James and Norbert, being much
employed by him, their uncles grew jealous
and left England, Jofeph going to France,
Philip to Flanders, where each being en-
tertained by the refpeétive governments,

* Unlefs a medal which I have mentioned in the
fecond volume of this work, p. 62. was executed by
Norbert.

1- V. Evelyn, p. 27, and 137.

the

374. Sumeriafmerr, 1r:bz’ttﬁ:,aﬂd‘.

the three brothers were at the fame time in
the fervice of three. 'kings, of England,
France and Spain. James Rode; being hurt
by a fall from his horfe, and retiring to
Bromley for the air, caught cold and died.
Norbert and his farhér remained working
for the crown till the Revolution, when,
though offered to be continued in his poﬂ,
no follicitation could prevail on John ' the.
father to work {or king William. This
rendering him obnoxious, and there being
fufpicions * of his carrying on a treafon-

able

* There are many evidences that thefe and other
{ufpicions were not ill-founded. Rotier was believed to
have both coined and furniihed dies for coining money,
I ﬁrppofe with the {lamp and for the ferviee of king
James. Smith in his Memoirs of fecret fervice‘ men-
tions his information and dikovery of the dies in the
fI‘ower being conveyed away by one Hewet and others,
by the help of Mr. Rotier, and that they were found at
Mr. Vernon’s in January 1695. In- the journals of the
Houfe of Commons, vol. xi. p. 686, is a report from
the Committee to examine what dies were gone out of
the Tower and by what means. From that report it
appears that Rotier would not fufi'er captain Harris the
patent-ofﬁcer to enter the houfe where the dies were
kept ; that one Ware made a prefs for White, then un—

der

Walliﬂs, in the Reign Of Gbarleﬁll. I75

able correfpondence, guards were placed
round his houfe in the Tower, and lord
Lucas, who commanded there, made him
{0 uneafy that he was glad to quit his habii-
tation. He was rich and very inﬁrm, la-
bouring under the [tone and gravel, addi-
tional reafons for his retiring. He took a
houfe in Red—lion-fquare. Norbert, lefs
difﬁcult, executed fome things for the go-
vernment, particularly, * as Vertue thinks,
the coronation medal for William and

(let fentence of condemnation, who told Ware he could
have diea from Rotier when he pleafetl: that Rotier,
who was a Catholic, kept an .lrilh papilt in his houfe,
and that the lord Lucas, governor of the Tower, had
complained, that the Tower was not fafe, while fo many
papif’ts were entertained in Rotier’s houfe. It appears
too from the Journal of Henry Earl of Clarendon, that
when his lordfhip, who by his own account had dealt
with the molt difafl‘eéted perfon‘s, was committed to the
Tower in 1690. he aﬂzed lord Lucas to let Rotier come
to him, which the governor would not fuller him to do
alone, becaufe he was a papilt.——Lord Clarendon molt
probably had another reafon for deﬁring Rotier’s com-
pany.

'1 He and his brother James ﬁruck a medal of king
William alone in 1693, which was advertifedfwith
another By them of Charles 1.

Mary,

I76 Statuari'lr, Carver}, Arc/aileﬁs, mm"

Mary, and fome dies for the copper money.
On the proofs were the king’s and queen’s
heads on different ﬁdes, with a rofe, a Ihip,
&c. but in 1694. it was refolved, that the
heads {hould be coupled, and Britannia be on
the reverie. Hence arofe/new matter of com-
plaint-Some penetrating eyes thought they
difcovered a Satyr’s head * couched in the
king’s. This made much noife, and gave rife
to a report that king James was in England,
and lay concealed in Rotier’s houfe in the
Tower. Norbert on thefe diffatisfaétions
left England, and retiring into France, where
he had been educated in the academy, was re-
ceived and employed by Louis XIV. where,
‘whatever had been his inclinations here, he
certainly made feveral medals of the young
.chevalier.

John, the father, furvived king William.
A medal being o'rdered of the new queen,
'Harris a player who fucceeded Rotier, and
was incapable of the oﬂice, employed work-

* I remember fuch a viﬁon about the ﬁrﬂ: half-penny
"of the late king George II. The knee 0f Britannia was

-thought to rcprefent a rat (a Hanoverian one) gnawing

into her bowels.
men

Madam/h, in tlae Reign of Cbarle: II. .177

men to do the buﬁnefs, among whom was
Mr. Croker, who afterwards obtained the
place. Sir Godfrey Kneller drew a proﬁle
of the queen, and Mr. Bird the ﬁatuary
modelled it. Her majef’ty did not like the
eITay, and recolleéted Rotier, but was told
' the family had left England or were dead.
Sir Godfrey being ordered to infpeét the
work, and going to the Tower, learned that
John Rotier was i’till living, whom he vilited
and acquainted. with what had happened.
The old man, in a pailion, began a die, but
diedbefore he could ﬁniﬂa it, in 1703, and
was buried in the Tower. The unﬁnifhed
die, with others of the twelve Caefars, were
fent to France to his relations, whence two
of them arrived, hoping to be employed.
One of them modelled the face of Sir Hans
Sloane, and ﬁruck a ﬁlver medal of the
duke of Beaufort; but not meeting with
fuccefs, they returned. This entire accoUnt
Vertue received in 1745 from two furviv—
ing ﬁlters of Norbert Rotier. Their mo—
ther, who had a portrait of her hufband

VOL. III. M John,

178» 'Stafuaries; Carvers, “Arc/3mm, am!
John, which the datigh-‘ters feat for, died- in
Flanders about 1720. ‘

Of the works of the Rotiers, fome may be
feen in Evelyn. John made a large milled
medal of duke Lauderdale in 167 2, with
the graver’s own name. Norbert, a medal;
of Charles I. (itka about the time of the
RevolutiOn) and another of his queen. One
‘ of them, 1 know not which, grared a large
medal of a Danii-h admiral, in the reign of
king James. A cornelian feal with the heads
~ of Mars and Venus, which Vertue faw, was
cut by John Rotier. Of Jofeph there is, a
. print, while 'he was in the fervice of the
French king, and calling him, “> Cydevant
‘ graveur de la monoye' de Charles II, d’An.
gleterre.”

---‘---‘DU FOUR.

Nothing is known of his. hand, but a ﬁlver
medal of lord'Berkeley’s head in a peruke,
reverfe his arms, 1666. “Du Four f.

GEORGE

Medallg'lis, in the Reign of Charles II. I 7 9

G‘EORGElBOWER,

Probably a volunteer art'fﬁ, {truck a large
ﬁlver medal of Charles Il. proﬁle in a
peruke, the queen’s head on the reverfe.
G. Bower f. l

Another on the duke of _Y_ork’s Ihip-
wreck. V. Evelyn.

Another of James, as king, and one of his
queen, rather fmaller. ‘

Medals of the dukes of Albemarle, Or—
mond, and Lauderdale, and of the earl of
Shaftfbury—this hit 15 one of Bower’ 5 bell
works.

Ma Annea-

ANE-CDOTES of PAINTING, 65c.

£3 H A P. III.
ﬂrtz'ﬂ: in the Reign of- ?ame: II.

HE fhort and tempeftuous reign of

James, though he himfelf feems to
have had much inclination to them, afford-
ed fmall encouragement to the arts. His
religion was not of a complexion to exclude
decoration ; but foUr years, crouded with in-
furreétions, profecutions, innovations, were
not likely to make a ﬁgure in a hiitory of
painting. Several performers, that had re—
ﬁded here in the preceding reign, continued
through that of James: fuch as may pecu—
liarly be afcribed to this Ihort period, I {hall
recapitulate.

WILLIAM

drtz' 3 int/ye Reign of 7am: II. 181 ~

WILLIAM G. iFERGUSON‘

A Scot, who lived long in Italy and France,
painted {till—life, dead fowl, Sac. 'while in
Italy he compofed two pictures, fold in
Andrew Hay’s fale, reprefenting bafreliefs,

antique ﬁones, &c. on which the light was"

thrown, fays Vertue, in a furprizing man-

ner. His name and the date 1679 were on'

them. On another was the year 1689; for

which reafon I have placed him between‘

thefe periods. He worked very cheap and
died here.

JACQUES ROUSSEAU,*‘

Of Paris, Ptudied ﬁrl’t under Swanevelt, who
had married one of his relations, and then
improved himfelf ,by a journey to Italy;-
praé‘ticing folely in perfpeé'tive, architecture
and landfcape. On his return home he was
employed at Marly, but being a proteﬁant,
he quitted his work On the perfecution of

“ V. Graham’s Englifh School.
M 3 ‘ his

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i < i
is: Aim: in the ’Re‘igh'gs'ymﬁng '
his brethren, and retired to Swiﬁ‘erland‘.
Louvois invited him back, he refufed, but
fent his deﬁgns, and recommended a pro—

per perfon to execute them. After a fhort
Pray in Swiﬂ'erland, he went to Holland,

. whence he was invited over by Ralph duke

of Montague to adorn his new' houfe in.
Bloomfbury, where he painted mulch, and
had thefupervifal of the building, and even 7
aghand in it. His work amounted to
1500!. in lieu of which the duke allowed
him an annuity for his life of 2001. a year};
He received it but two years, dying * in
Sohquuare at the age of 68 about 1694.
Some of his pictures, both in landfcape
and architeéture, are over doors at Hamp-
ton—court ; and he etched after forne of his
own deﬁgns. He left a widow, but be-
queathed moi’t of what he had to his fellow—
fuﬁerers, the Refugées. Lord Burlington
had a pOrtrait of him‘by Le Fevre.

"‘ He was buried in St. Anne’s.

cHARLEs

. Aw: i411mRelga 0f fame; IL > 1:33;

CHARLES DE LA FOSSE,

A nafne little known in England, but of
great celebrity in France; The author of
, the Abregé calls him Un dc: plus gram co-

‘Joriﬂe: do I’ecole Francoz' c. He might be,

{0, and not very excellent ; colOuring is
the point in which their belt mailers have
failed. L5 Foﬂ'e was invited to England
by the duke of Montagu, mentioned in the
preceding article, and painted two cielings
for him, the Apotheoﬁs of His, and an
AlTembly of the Gods. The French author
fays that king William preﬂ‘ed him to [lay

here, but that he declined the offer, in

hopes of being appointed ﬁrﬁ painter to his
own monarch. Parmentiere aﬂil’ted La F oﬂe
in laying the dead colours for him in his
works at Montagu-houfe. La FolTe who
arrived in the reign of James, returned at
the Revolution, but came again to ﬁnifh
what he had begun, and went back when
he had ﬁniIhed.

M4 N.HEUDE

q-

1‘34— Amyt: in we

Lived about this time, andﬂgpainted in the
manner of Verrio, to whom he is {aid to
have been aﬂii‘tant. He painted a ﬂair—cafe
at the lord Tyrconnel’s in Arlington—Erect,

now demolifhed, and a cieling at Bulﬁrode, *

in both which he placed his own portrait and
name. He was mafter of Mr. Carpenter!
the ﬁatuary,

WILLIAM DE KEISAR

Qf Antwerp, was bred a jeweller, in which
profeﬁion he became very eminent, but
having been well educated and taught .to
draw, he had a ﬁrong bent towards that
profefﬁon, and employed all his leifure on
it, praﬁicing miniature, enamel, and oil-
cplotns, both in {in-all and large Vertue

fays, he ﬁxed at lal’t wholly on the former ,.
Graham that he painted in little atter the

manner of Ellheimer, that he imitated va—
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itiiR'eig” 0f ffames II. IéS

'i‘ioiisi’manners, drew cattle and birds, and
painted tombs and bafreliefs in imitation of
Vergazon, and that he worked fome time
with Loten the landfcape- painter. This
laf’t icircumf’tance is not very probable;
for Vertue, Who was acquainted with his
daughter, gives a very different account of
his commencing painter by profeﬂion. Hav-
ing painted fome altar-pieces at Antwerp,

his buﬁnefs called him to Dunkirk, where ‘

he drew a picture for the altar of the Englilh
nuns. They were fo pleafed with it, that
they perfuaded Keifar to go to England, and
gave him letters of recommendation to lord
Melfort, then in favour with King James.
The enthuﬁaf’tic painter could not reﬁll the
propofal; he embarked on board an Eng-
lifh velfel, and without acquainting his
wife or family, failed for England. His re-
ception was equal to his wilhes. He was
introduced to the king who promifed to
countenance him, and feveral perfons of

rank, who had known him at Antwerp,’

encouraged him in his new vocation. Tram-
fported with his profpec‘t, he fent for his
3 wife,

pm 4.1m rzm'mjmﬁxleb'r

i 1867’ ﬂrtiﬁs z'ntba-Raiglrzyiyms II.

wife, ordering-..her, to, difmiﬁs his workmen,
and- convert his .eﬁeéts-Iinto money.——With-
in half a Year the bubble burl’t; theRevo-
lution‘happened, Keifar’s friends could no
longer"? be his protectors, his ,buﬁnefs dea-
creafed, and the- purfuit of the Philofopher’s
ﬁone, to which he had recourfe in his de—
fpare, compleated his ruin. He died at the
age of 45 in four or ﬁve. years-rafter the
Revolution. He left a daughter whom he
had taken great pains to inﬁruél: in. his fa—
vorite ﬁ'ud'y, and with fuccefs. She painted
{mall portraits in: 011,. and copied well ; but
marrying one Mr. Humble ‘a gentleman, he
would. not permit her to follow. the profef—
lion; After his. death {he returned'to it,,and
died: in' D‘ecember 1724. She had {overall
piehlresby her father’s hand; particularly. a.
St; Catherine, painted for the queen dowa-
ger’s chapel. at Somerfet—houfe, and his own
head in: water colours: by himfelf.

LARGIL-

 

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_ LARGIL‘LIER‘E~

A French portrait-painter, was in England—
in this reign,‘ but went away on the" Revo- ’

lution. He drew the king and queen, Sir
John Warner, his daughter, and grand?

daughter, and V ander Meulen and Sybreéht
the painters. Vertue mentions a {mall piece

(about two feet and an half high) highly
ﬁnifhed by him reprehenting himfelﬂ his wife
and two children. The" painter is~ {tanding
and leans on a pedef’tal ; his wife'is ﬁtting ;
one of the children (lands, the other ﬁts
playing with fruit and ﬂowers: there is 3.
peacock, and‘itlandfcape behind them. His
{on was a counfellor of the Chatelet at Pa—

ris, and one of the commifraries at War in'

the new Brifac. He wrote for the Opera
comique and the Foire, * and died in 1747.

" Diet. des Theatres vol. iii. p. 260.

JOHN

1
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188' Artiﬂ: in‘tﬁe Reign $747k” II...

JOHN SYBRECHT*

Of Antwerp, painted landfcapes, and had
'i‘tudied the views on the Rhine, his drawings
of which in water-colours are more" common
than his pictures. The duke of Bucking-
ham returning through Flanders from his
embaﬂ'y to Paris, found Sybrecht at An—
twerp, was pl'eafed with his works, invited
him to England, and employed him at
Cliefden. In 1686 he made feveral views
of Chatfworth. At Newﬁede-abbey, lord
Byron’s, are two pieces by his hand; the
ﬁrfc, a landfcape in the ﬁyle of Rubens’s
fchool 5 the other, which is beg, a profpeét
of Longleate, not— unlike the manner of
Wouverman. Sybrecht died in 1703, aged
7 3, and was buried in St. James’s.

*‘ Venue {aw a picture at the duke of Portland’s by
this mailer, on which he wrote his name J. Siberechts,

x676. I have writ it as it is Eommonly fpelt, to pre-
vent conf'ufion.

HENRY

.Tgrtiﬂs in tbe Reign of 7am! II. ' 189

HrEiNRY' TI‘LSON

Was ’gran‘dfon of Henry Tilfon‘bifl1dp'of
Elphin, born in Yorkfhire, and who died in
16 5 5. Young Henry was bred under Sir
Peter Lely, after whofe death he went to
Italy in company with Dahl, and {laid {even
years, copying the works of the belt maﬁers
with great diligence. He fucceededin por—
traits, both oil and crayons, and was likely
to make a ﬁgure, when he grew difordered
in his fenfes and {hot himfelf at the age of
36. He was buried at St. Dunﬁan’s in the
Weft. He painted his own portrait twomor
three times ; once with a pencil in his hand
leaning on a bull. Behind it was written
H. Tilfona. Roma, 1687. He drew a
large family—piéture of his father, mother, a
younger brother, a filler and himfelf. Dahl
gave Tilfon his own picture, inferibed be—
hind, “ Memoria per mio caro amico Henl-
rico Tilfon fatto Roiina 1686.

~— FANCATI

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.190 Artiﬂs,inibe-gRéign-..¢f9'emes-II-

------—- FANCATI

' «An Italian, copied the portraits of James
. and his queen with a pen, from the originals
of‘ Kneller. They were highly laboured,
and came into the pofi'efﬁon of Mr. George
Clarke of Oxford.

_THFOMAS BENIERE,

A Young ftatuary who ﬂourifhed in this
reign, was born in England of French pa—
rents in 1663. \ His models and fmall works
in marble are much commended. The ana-
tomic ﬁgure commonly feen in the Ihops of
apothecaries was taken from his original mo-
del. He carved portraits in marble from
the life for two guineas. He lived and died
near Fleet-ditch in 16 9 3.

..._.... QUELLIN

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El'deﬁ~ Ion.» of 2,. good ftatqgry‘ oftAntwerp,
fettled here and was concerned in feveral
works which by the only._.fpeCimen~,Ver;tue
mentions, I Ihould- think were very indifa
ferent, for he carved Mr. Thynne’smonm
ment in Weftminfter-abbey. He hired in a
:Iargeold-houfe. ink Tower~ﬁreet St.;Giles’s,r
:snearthe Seven—dials; and died at thevagciof
‘ 33. ‘:His widowomarried Van OR of Mech-
lin, another ftatnary. (ﬁlellin’sv younger
brother, who followed theefame b-ulinefs,
worked at C0penhagen, Dantzick and Ham-
burgh, and in ten years made a conﬁderable
fortune ; and died at Antwerp.

In a book called the Art of Painting by
Marlhall Smith, fecend edit. fol. I693,
mention is made of \Villiam De Ryck, a
difciple of @ellin, who feems to have been
a painter, and to have come to England,
for, recapitulating fome of this man’s works,
the author fpeciﬁes, “ a Niagdalen, or the
lady of Winchellea 3” and adds, “ his

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daughter Mrs. Katherine comes behind none
of her fair fex in the art.” There is» a large
iheet print, the condemnation of St. Cathe-
rine, defigned, painted and engraved by
William De RVck 1684, and dedicated to a
bifhop of Antwerp. ‘

THOMAS EAST

Was engraver of the feals to James II. and

. had learned of Thomas Simon. Eaﬂ: was

fucceeded by his nephew Mr. John Roos,
who continued in that oﬂice till the accef-
{ion of George 1.

Anne—

Amen-ems of PAINTING, arc.

CHAﬁIv
Painter: in the Reign of King William.

H I S prince, like molt of thofe in

our annals, contributed nothing 'to

the advancement of arts. He was born in
a country Where taﬂe never ﬂourifhed, and
nature had not given it to him as an em-
bellilhment to his great qualities. He
courted Fame, but none of her minil’ters.
Holland owed it’s prefervation to his heroic
virtue, England it's liberty to his ambition,
Europe it’s independence to his competi-
tion with Louis the fourteenth; for, how-
ever unfuccefsful in the conteﬁ, the very
ﬁruggle was falutary. Being obliged to
draw all his refources from himfelf; and not
content to acquire glory by proxy, he had
no leifure, like his rival, to preﬁde over the
regii’ters of his fame. He fought his own
battles, inﬁead of chuﬁng mottoes for the
VOL. III. N medals

mamkavtveaxau-‘swmu_v.:-v. 1.21 gin-U. .. .

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.
r94 Painters in tire Reign af King William;
medals that recorded that; and though my
lord Halifax promifed * him that his wouad
in the battle of? the Boyne

Should run for ever purple m our looms,

His majeﬂty centairrly did not befpealt a ﬁhgl‘e
fuit of tapef’cry in memory of the aétion.
In England he met with nothing but difi
gulls. Heunderi’food' little of the ”nation,
and fieems to have acted too: much-upon a;
plan fermed before he came ever, and, hOW-
ever heceﬂ'ary to his early ﬁtuation, little
adapted to fo peculiar. a people as the Eng-
lifh. He thought- that valour and tacitur-
niry would conquer. or govern the weild,

* It has Been 013(de that I- have mifqubte‘d lord:
Halifax, who does not promife, king William an iinh:
mortality ih tapeﬁry. for his wound, but tells him, the
French Would: have ﬂattered him in that manner. I?
it» very true: I‘Fmiﬂoolt, quoting only by. memory, and
happily not being very accurately. read in (0 indifferent“.
art-author. 'The true reading is but more applieable:
no my purpefe; Whoever delightsin fueh paddling;
criticii‘ms, and ih-aﬁerwards capable of reafoning from:
a paﬂhge when'lié has reaiﬂed it, may amufe himfelf
in fetting this right I; leave the'paﬁage wrong as it»
ﬂood. at full-,in charitg-m {ash commentamrs.

and

’ 1 | _ I. l .l . 1 ~ ‘.
Pafhlm’ in the Reiga of King W‘z’llz’am. I 95'
and vainly imagining that his new fubjeéts
loved liberty better than party, he trialled

to their feeling gratitude for a bleﬂing WhiCh

they could not help feeing‘ Was Confer'red a

little for his oWn fake. Referved, unfociable,‘

ill in his health, and foured by his fitua«
tion, he fought none of thofe amtifements
that make the hours of the happy mneh
happier. If We mull extept the'palace at
Hampton—mun, at: leal’c it is no monUment
of his taﬂ’e; it feem‘s erected in emulation
of, what it certainly Was meant to imitate,
the pompous ediﬁces of the FrenCh monarch.
We are told that

—— Great Nafl‘au to Kneller’s hand decreed

To ﬁx him gracefull on the bounding Reed:
. In general I believe his majel’cy patronized
neither painters nor * poets, though he was
happy in the latter—but the cafe is difl‘ea
rent, a great prince may havea Garth, 21
Prior, a Montagu, and want Titians and.

’1‘ King William had ('0 little lei£ye to attend to, or
{0 little difpontlon to men of wit, that when «'St. 13er-
mont was introduced to him, the king {aid Coldly, “ I
think you was a major— —general 1n the French ferv ice.’

N 2 V V andycks,

1
uLoh‘Jl..u-11. ‘3‘; mar- ”magnesium-'mﬁ'm

196 Painters in the Reigh osz’irg Mllizim‘
Vandycks, if he encourages neither—You
muﬁ' addrefs ﬁgurfelf to a painter, if you
wifh to be ﬂattered-a poet brings his in-
cenfe'to you; Mary feems to have had little
more piopenﬁty to the arts than the king:
the good queen loved to work and talk, and
wcontented herfelf with praying to God that
her hufband might be a great hero, ﬁnce he
did not chufe to be a ﬁnd hufband. A few
men of genius ﬂourifhed in their time, of
whom the chief was

Sir GODFREY KNELLE R,

A man leﬂ‘ened by his own reputation, as he
chofe to make it fubfervient toyhis fortune. *
Had he lived in a country where his merit
had been rewarded according to the worth
of his productions, inﬂead of the number,
he might have {hone in the roll of the

"‘ The author of the Abrege fays, that Kneller pre-
ferred portrait— painting for this reafon. “ Painters of
hiﬂmy, faid he, make the dead live, and do not begin
to live themfelves till they are dead .-—I paint the liv-
ing, and they make me live ”

1 greatei’t

Painter: in the Reign ‘of King I/I/z'l'l’iam. I 97

greatef’t maf’ters 5 but he united the highel’c
vanity with the molt confummate negli-
gence of charaEter—at leaﬁ, where he 0of- ..‘
feted one picture to fame, he Tacriﬁced
twenty to lucre- ; and he met with cul’tomers
of fo little judgment, that they were fond
of being painted by a man, who would
gladly have difowned his works the mo—
ment they were paid for. Ten '1- fovereigns
fat to him; not one of them difeovered that
he was ﬁt for more than preferv-ing’ their
likenefs. We however, who fee king Wil—
liam, the Czar Peter, Marlborough, New-

1- Charles II. James II. and‘his queen ; William and
Mary, Anne, George I. Louis XIV. Peter the Great,
and the emperor Charles VI. For the laIt portrait Leo-
pold created Kneller knight of the Roman empire—by
Anne he was made a gentleman of the privy-chamber,
and by the Univerﬁty of Oxford a doéior. When he
had linilhed the piétureof Louis XIV, that prince afk’ed
him what mark of his ellee-m would be molt agreeable
to him P he anfwered modei’tly and genteely, that ifhis
majeﬁy would bellow a quarter of an hour on him, that
he might make a drawing of his head for himfelf, he
{hould think it the highefl honour he could poﬂibly re.-
ceive. The king complied, and the painter drew him
on grey paper with black and red chalk heightened
with white.

N '3 ton,

19.8 Painter: its tbe‘Reg'gx 9f King Mikes;
ton, Dryden, ‘Godolphing Somers, the du.
chefs of Grafton, lady. Rmclagh, and fo
many ornhrnents of an illuﬁrious age, tranf-
' mitted to us by Kneller’s pencil, mull: not
regret that-his talent was conﬁned to por— ,
traits—Perhaps. the treafure is greater, than
if he had decorated the chambers of Hamp-
ton-court with the wars of Eneas or the en—
’ chanted palace of Armida: and when one
conﬁders how feldom great matters are wor—
thily employed, it is better to have real
portraits, than Madonnas without end. My
opinion of what Sir Godfrey’s genius could
have produced, mutt not be judged by the
hiﬁoric picture of king William in the
palace juft mentioned ; it is a tame and
poor performance. But the original fketch,
of it at Houghton is ﬁruck out with a'fpirit‘
.and ﬁre equal to Rubens, The hero and
the horfe are in the heat of battle: In the
large piece, it is the king riding in triumph,
with his ufual phlegm.. Of all his works,
Sir‘Godfrey was moi’c proud of the convert-4
ed Chinefe at Windfor 5 but his portrait of
Gibbons is fuperior to it. It has the freedom

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and nature of Vandysck, with theharmony of
ageless-i3 peculiar to Andrea Sacchi; and
no part of itlis negieeted. In general, even
where he took pains, all the parts are aﬁec-
tediy kept down, to throw the greater force
into the headma trick unworthy fo great a
matter. ’His draperies too are {0 * care;
ieﬂy ﬁniﬂtedz, that they refemble no ﬁlk or
«ﬂuff the world ever fawn His airs of heads
have extreme grace ;‘ the hair admirably
difpofed, and if the ﬂocks feem unnaturally
elevated, it rriuﬁ be conﬁderedv as an in?-
ﬁance of the painter’s are He painted in
an age when the women erected ediﬁces of
three l’tories on their heads. Had he repre—
fented fuch prepofterous attire, in half a
century his works would have been ridicu-

’-“ He fometimes, in the hafte of ﬁnifhirig left part of
the primed cloth uncoloured. This fault, which in
Kneller proceeded from hal’ce and rapacionfnefs, was
aﬁ‘eéteﬁly imitated by fome oflthe painters who fuc-
ceeded him, while his great reputation was [till in
vogue. Yet with all Sir Godfrey’s deﬁre of acquiring
riches, he left goo portraits unﬁniﬂtedp—fbr his‘cuf-
tomers were not equally ready to pay, as to ﬁt. There
is an entertaining account of theft: lift: in Rouquet’s
State of the Arts in England.

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lous. To lower their drefs to a natural level
when the eye was accuﬁomed to pyramids,
would have Ihocked their prejudices and
diminilhed the refemblance.—He took a
middle way and weighed out ornament to
them of more natural materials. Still it
'muft be owned, there is too great a fame-
nefs in his airs, and no imagination at all in
his compoﬁtions. See but a head, it intes-
reﬁs you—uncover the reft of the-canvafs,
you wonder faces f0 expreﬂive could be em.—
ployed f0 infipidly. In truth, the age de—
manded nothing correct, nothing compleat.
Capable of taﬁing the power of Dryden’s
numbers, and the majefty of Kneller’s heads,
it overlooked doggrel and daubing. What
pitythat men of fortune are not blef‘t with
fuch a pen or fuch a pencil ! That a genius
mui’t write for a bookfeller, Or paint for an
alderman!

Sir Godfrey Kneller was born at Lubec,
about the year 1648. His * grandfather had

* V. Buckeridge’s edition of De Piles, and of Gra:
ham’s Englifh School, in which he has inferted a new
life of Sir Godfrey, p. 393.

an

Painters in 1b! Reign 0}" King William. 720!

an eﬁate near Hall in saxony; wasfurveyor‘

general of the mines and infpeﬁor of count:
Mansfeldt’s revenues. By. his wife of the
family of Crowfen, he had one fon Zachary,
educated at Leipﬁe, and for fomc time in
the fervice of Guf’tavus Adolphus’s Widow.
' After her death he removed to Lubec,
married, profeﬁed architecture, and was
chief furveyor to his native city. He left
two fons, John Zachary, and Godfrey. The

latter, who at ﬁri’c was deﬁgned fOr a mili— d

tary life, was fent‘ to Le'yden,‘where he ap-
plied to mathematics and fortiﬁcation; but
the predominance of nature determining
him to painting, his father acquiefced and
{cut him to Amf’terdam, where he {tudied
under B01, and had fome inﬂruétions from
Rembrandt. Vertue 'nor any of his bio-
graphers take notice of it, nor do I aﬂ'ert
it, but I have heard that one of his mail
ters was Francis Hals. It is certain that
Kneller had no fervility of a difciple, nor
imitated any of them. Even in Italy whi-
ther he went in 1672, he mimicked no pe-
culiar ﬁryle, nor even at Venice where he

reﬁded

102 Pm'iimi bat the Right? King Mﬂiam.
reﬁd‘ed moﬁ and : was ‘eﬁeemed and em-
played by fame of the {2343; families, and
Where he drew cardinal Baﬁhdonnar. If he
caught any thing, it'was inﬁmétionsnot
hints. If I fee the , leaft refemblance in his
works to any other matter, it is in Tome of
his earlieﬁ works in England, and thofe his
heft, to Tintoret. A portrait at‘Houghton
of Jofeph Carreras, a poet and chaplain to
Catherine of Lifbon, has the force and ﬁm~
, plic'ity of that mailer, without owing part
of its merit to Tintoret’s univerfal black '
; drapery, to his own afterwards negleé‘ted
draperies, or to his matter Rembrandt’S
unnatural Chiaro Scuro. Latter-1y Sir God-
frey was thought to give into the manner
of Rubens; I fee it no where but in the
iketch of king William's cqueftrian ﬁgure,
evidently imitated from Rubens’s deﬁgn
of the ceiling for the Banquetting-houfe,
which, as I have faid, in the life of that
painter, was in Kneller’s poﬁ'eflion. The
latter had no more of Rubens’s rich colour-
ing, than of Vandyck’s delicacy in habits;
but he had more beauty than the latter,
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more dignity than Sir Peter Lely. The
latter felt his capacity in a memorable ina-
ﬁance ; Kneller and his broth-er came to
England in .1674without intending to re.
lide here, but to return through France to
Venice. They were recommended to Mr.
'Banks, a Hamburgh-merchant, and God;
frey drew him and his family. The pioftures
pleafed, Mr. Vernon, {Ecretary to the
duke of .Monmouth, faw them, and fat to
the new painter, and obtained his maﬁer’s
picture by the fame hand. The duke {was
{0 charmed, that he engaged the king his
brother to ﬁt to Kneller, at a time thatthe
duke of York had been promifed the king’s
piEture by Lely. Charles unwilling to have
double trouble, propofed that both the
artiﬁs lhould draw him at the fame time;
Lely as an el’tablilhed maﬁer, chofe the
light-he liked: the ﬁranger was to draw
the picture as he could; and performed it
with fuch facility and expedition, that his
piece was in a manner ﬁniﬂied when Lely’s
was only dead—coloured. The novelty
Pkaﬁ’d“ yet Lely deferred moft honour,

for

9.04 Painter: in ﬂat Reign of King Z/z'llz'am.

for he did juﬁ‘ice Ito his new competitor;
confeITed his abilities‘ and the likenefs.
This fuccefs ﬁxed Kneller here. The feries
of his portraits prove the'continuance of his
reputation. .

Charles II. fent him to Paris to draw
Louis XIV. but died in his abfenee. The
fucceﬁbr was equally favourable to him,
and was ﬁtting for his picture for fecretary
Pepys, when he received the news that the
prince of Orange was landed.

King William diﬁinguifhed Kneller f’till
more; for * that prince he painted the
beauties at Hampton-court, and was knight-
ed by him in 1.692, with the additional

"‘ They were painted in hisreign, but the thought
was the queen’s, during one‘of the king’s abfences;
and contributed much to make her unpopular, as I have
heard from the authority of the old countefs of Carliﬂe
(daughter of Arthur earl of Effex) who died within
thefe few years and remembered the event. She add-
ed, that the famous lady Dorchel’ter advifed the queen
againf‘t it, faying, “ Madam, if the king was to all»:
for the portraits of all the wits in his court, would not
the reﬁ think he called them fools E ”

prefent

Painter: in tbe Reigrtof King Wlk‘am. 205

prefent- of a gold medal and chain weigh-
ing 3001. and for him 'Sir Godfrey drew the
portrait, of the Czar; as for queen Anne
he painted the king of Spain, afterwards
Charles VI. f0 poor a performance that
one would think he felt the fall from Peter
to Charles. His works in the gallery of *
Admirals were done in the fame reign, and
feveral of them worthy f0 noble a memo-
rial. The Kit-cat—club, generally mention—
ed as a fet of wits, in reality the patriots
that faved Britain, were Kneller’s laﬁ works
in that reign, and his laﬂ: public work.
He lived to draw George I. was made a.
baronet by him, and continued to paint
during the greater part of his reign ; but in
1722 Sir Godfrey was feized with a violent
fever, from the immediate danger of which
he was refcued by Dr. Meade. The hu-
mour however fell on his left arm; and it
was opened; He remained in a languifh-
ing condition and died Off. 27, 172 3. His

‘3 Seven of thofe heads are by Kneller, the ref! by
Dahl,

body

9‘06 Pamfétmmd’lfbtg W7iimI
body lay 111‘ ltate, amli was buried at Vlfita1
ten, but a monument m ere-fled in Weft-
mailer—abbey, * where his friend Mr. Pope,
asif to gratify arr-extravagant vanity dead,
which he hatl ridieuled living, bellowed on
him a tranﬂation of Raphael’s epitaph-as
hlgh a compliment as even poetry Could
be allowed to pay to the original, 1 a ﬁlly
hyperbole when applied to the modern.
This was not the only inflame in which
the poet i11cenfed the painter. Sir Godfrey
had drawn for him the ﬂames of Apollo,
Venus and Hercules; Pope paid for them
mth thefe lines,

What god, what genius did the pencil mow,
VYhen Knelle’r painted thefe !
’Twas friendlhip, warm as Phaebus, kind as love,
' And llrong as Hercules.

He was'in the right to fupprefs them-2
What idea does mufcular friendﬂﬁp con-

” His monument, executed by Ryfbrach, was dis
nailed by himfelf, he lef t 30ol. for it.

vey ?

Painter: fink Reign asz'ag' lVilZim my
vey? It was not the fame {warmth of
fiiendﬂiip that made Pope put Kneller’st
vanity to the Ringgit trial imaginable;
The farmer laid as. wagezéthat' there was
no Battery {0 grofé but his friend would-
fwallow. To prove; it, Pope ﬁid ‘to- him
i as he was painting, “ Sir Godfrey, I be»;
lieve if God Almighty had had your aim.
once, the world would have been. {ennui
more pexfeét." “ Fore God, Sir, RM
Kneller, I believe f0.” This impioius am
fwer, was me ‘extraaoi'dinmzy in the - lab-e
ter.— His converfation. on religion was
extremely free. —- His T paraphrafe on. a

* Pope’s charaélen of Helluo is‘believed to allude to:

Sir Godﬁty. ‘ > _

+ In the ram {train lie one to alow onwmne
ovepheard ending himfclf; “ God damn you! (305
may damn the duke of Marlborough, and perhaps Sir

Godfrey Kneller; but do you think he will take thq .

nouble of damning fuch a feeundrel as you. 1” The
fame vanity that could think itfelf intitle'd to pre-éin'p’?
nence even in horrors, alightcd on a jufier diftiné‘tion,
when he told his taylor, who offended him by prowling
his fen fonan apprentice, “ Doll: thou think, am i
can make thy {on a painter! No; God Almightyconlg
makes pain:ers.’f

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l "108 Painter: in tbe Reign of King W'z'llz'am.

partieular text of forithre, ﬁngular. “ If?
my father’s houfe are many manﬁons ;”‘
which Sir Godfrey interpreted thus. “ At '
the " day of judgment, faid he, God will
examine mankixid on their diﬁ‘erent pro~
felﬁonsz' to one he will fay, Of what feet
was you? I was a Papif’c—go you'there.
What was you? A Protel’cant—go you
there.-—And you?--A Turk—go you
there—And you, Sir GodfreyP—I was
of no feet—then God will fay, Sir God-
frey, chufe your place.” His wit was ready ;
his bOn-mdts: defervedly admired. In great
Qieen-ftreet * he lived next door to Dr.-
RatcliEe; Kneller was fond of ﬂowers, and
had a ﬁne eolleétion. As there was great
intimacy between him and the phyﬁcian,
he permitted the latter to have a door into
his garden, but Ratcliff‘e’s fervants gather-
ing and deﬁroying the ﬂowers, Kneller fent
him word he mul’t {hut up the door.-- Rat-r

‘ He ﬁrﬁ lived in Durham—yard, then 21 years in
Covent-garden, and lai’cly in Great (keen-Meet, Lin-
coln’spinn-ﬁelds. -

cliﬁe

Painter: in the Reign of Kiﬁg Mlliam. 209

Chile replied peevifhly, ‘f Tell him he may'
do any thing with it but paint it.”—“ And
‘I, anfwered Sir Godfrey, can take any thing
from him but phyﬁc.” Sir Godfrey at: Wit—
ton acted as JuliiCe of Peace, and was fo
much more fwayed by Equity than Law,
that his judgments accompanied with hu-
mour are laid to have occalioned thofe lines

by Pope,

I think Sir Godfrey {hould decide the fuit,
Who {cm the Thief (that ﬂole the calh) away,
And punilh’d him that put it in his way.

This alluded to his difmiﬂ‘mg a foldier who
had ﬂolen a'joint of meat, and accufed the
butcher of having tempted him by it.
Whenever Sir Godfrey was applied to, to
determine what parifh a poor man belonged
to, he always inquired which parifh was the
richer, and fettled the poor man there 5 nor
would ever ﬁgn a warrant to diﬁrain the
goods of a poor man, who could not pay a
tax. Thefe inf’tances fhowed the goodnefs
of his heart; others, even in his capacity of
juﬁice,his peculiar turn ; a handfome young

VOL. III. ' O woman

210 Painter: in the Reign of King William.
'woman came before him to fwear a rape 5
{truck ‘ with her beauty, he continued exa-
mining her, as he fat? painting, till he had,
taken her likenefs. If he diﬂiked interrup-
tion, he would not be interrupted. Seeing
a conﬁable coming to him at the head of a
mob, he called to him, without inquiring
into the affair; “ Mr. Coni’table, you fee
that turning; go that way, and you will ﬁnd
an ale-houfe, the ﬁgn of the king’s head—-
go, and make it up.”

He married Sufannah Cawley, daughter
of the minif’ter of Henley upon Thames.
She out—lived him and was buried at Hen-
ley, where are monuments for her and her
father. Before his marriage, Sir Godfrey
had an intrigue with a (baker’s wife, whom
he purchafed of her hufband, and had a
daughter, whofe portrait he drew like St.
Agnes with a lamb ; there is a print of it by
Smith. Kneller had ainailed a great for-
tune, though he lived magniﬁcently, and
loft 20,000 I. in the South-{ea ; yet he had
an ef’tate of near 20001. a year left. Part he
bequeathed to his wife, and entailed the tell:

on

- Painter: in tine Reigqof King W’z’llz‘am. 2 I I

on Godfrey Huckle, his daughter’s fon,
withorders that he {hould aﬂ‘ume the name
of Kneller. To three nieces at Hamburgh,
the children of his brother, he left legacies ;
and an annuity of tool. a year to Bing, an
old fervant, who with his brother had been
his aﬂil’tants. Of thefe he had many, as
may be concluded from the quantity of his
works, and the badnefs of f0 many. His
chief performers were, Pieters, Vander Roer,
and Bakker—fometimes he employed Bap-
tif’t and Vergazon. His prices were ﬁfteen
guineas for a head, twenty if with one hand,
thirty for a half, and ﬁxty for a whole
length.

Kneller frequently drew his own portrait,
my father had one, a head when young, and
a ﬁnal] one of the fame age, very maf—
terly; it is now mine. It was engraved by
Becket. Another in a wig; by Smith. A
half-length fent to the Tufcan gallery. . A
half-length in a brocaded waiﬁcoat with his
gold chain- , there is a mezzotinto of it, ac«
companying the Kit-cat-heads. Another
head with a cap, a half-length prefented to

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a: 2 Painter: in tbe Reign of King William.

the gallery at Oxford, and a double piece of
himfelf and his wife. Great numbers of his
works have been engraved, particularly by
Smith, who has more than done juﬁice to
them; the draperies are preferable to the
originals. The ﬁrl’t print taken from his
works was by White of Charles II. He had
an hif’toric piece of his own painting before
he went to Italy, Tobit and the Angel. At
his feat at Witton were many of his own
.works, fold fome years after his death. He
intended that Sir James Thornhill fhould
paint the flaircafe there, but hearing that Sir
Ifaac Newton was ﬁtting to Thornhill,
Kneller was oﬂ'ended, faid, no portrait—
painter {hould paint his houfe, and em-
ployed Laguerre.

Pope * was not the only bard that foothed
this painter’s train—glory. Dryden repaid
him for axprefent of Shakefpeare’s picture

" Four letters from Sir Godfrey to Pope are printed
in the two additional volumes to the works of that poet,
printed for R. Baldwin, 1776.. T hofe letters were not
worth printing, and are very ill fpelt, a fault very ex-
cufable in a foreigner.

3 with.

.53,

Painter: in the Reign of King” miziam, 2 x 3

twith a copy of verfes full of luxuriant but

immortal touches; the moﬂ: beautiful of

’ Addifon’s poetic Works was addreﬂ'ed to

him : the ﬁngular happinefs of the alluﬁons,
and applications of fabulous theology to the

princes drawn by Kneller, is very remark-
able:

Great Pan, who wont to chafe the fair,
And love the {preading oak was there,

For Charles II. And for James,

Old Saturn too with upcal’t eyes
Beheld his abdicated Ikies.

 

And the reft on William and Mary, Anne,
and George I. are all ﬁamped with the moft
juﬂ: refemblance.

Prior complimented Kneller on the duke
of Ormond’s picture; Steele wrote a poem
to him at Witton; Tickell another; and
there is one in the third part of Mifcella-
neous Poems, 8vo. Lond. I69 3, on the por—
trait of the lady Hyde. Can one wonder
at man was vain, who had been ﬂattered by
Dryden, Addifon, Prior, Pope and Steele?
Jofeph Harris dedicated to him his Tragi-

O 3 comedy

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214 Painter: iii the Reigh of King mmm.

comedy of the Mii’takes or F alfe Report in
1690, in which Dryden, Tate, and Mount—
ford had aﬂii’ted. And John Smith (I {up-
pofe the celebrated mezzotinter) addreITed
his tranﬂation of Le Brun’s Conference on
the Paﬂions to Sir Godfrey. On his death
was written another Poem printed in a Mif;
cellany publifhed by D. Lewis, 8vo. in
1726. ' and the following lines were ad-
drelTed to him on his portrait of Lord Chane .
cellor Macclesﬁeld,

To {uch a face and fuch an air

Who could fufpeét there wants a voice?
0, Kneller, ableﬂ hand, declare,

If this was thy miﬂake, or choice.

’Twas choice—thy modeﬂy conceal’d
The tongue, which would thy glory raife ;
For That, whichjuﬁice ne’er withheld,
Would never ceafe to {peak thy praifc.

His Brother

jOHN ZACHARY KNELLER,

Who was thirteen years older than Sir
Godfrey, came to England with him, and
painted in frefco, architecture, and f’till-

life,

Painter} in the Reign ofKing William; 21;
life, pieces in oil, and laﬁzly in water-colours,
in which he copied feveralp of his brother’s
\ heads. Sir Godfrey drew his portrait, one
of his belt works. Of John’s was a piece
of {till-life with a great tankard in the
middle ; and a ﬁnall head of Wyck, almoft
' proﬁle in oii, in the poﬂ‘eﬂion of Dr. Bar-
nard bifhop of Derry, with the names of
both artiﬁs, dated 1684., John Kneller died
in 1702 in Covent—garden and was buried in
that church.

JOHN JAMES BAKKER

Painted draperies for Kneller, and went to
Bruffels with him in 1697, where Sir God-
frey drew the eleétor of Bavaria on a white
horfe. Idon’t know whether Bakker ever
practiced for himfelﬁ He was brother of
Adrian Bakker, who painted hif’cory and por-
traits at Amf’cerdam and died in 1686.

wmmaemivemmag

21 6 Painter: in the Reign 0f King ‘ﬁllz’am.

JACOB VANDE R ROE R,

Another ofiKneller’s afﬁﬁants, was fcholar of

J. De Baan, and lived many years in Lon-
don ; died at Dort. See an account of him
in the third volume of Defcamps.

JOHN PIETERS

Was born at Antwerp, and learned of
Eykens, a hifloryLPainter. He came to
England in 168 5, at the age of eighteen, *
and was recommended to Sir Godfrey, for
whom he painted draperies, and whom he
quitted in "1712, and was employed in the
fame fervice b'y‘others ; but his chief buﬁnef's
was in mending drawings and old pictures,
in which he was very '|' fkilfull. Pieters and
" 'N'U'IBakker

* He was {a poor that he engaged himde as a “do-
meftic in the fervice of cardinal Dada, the pope’s
nuntio ; but quitted him before night.

f He excelled in copying Rubens, and even paired

off .fevcral prints, which he had wafhed, for original
' drawings

Painter: in tbe Reign of King W’illiam; 217
Bakker were both kind to Vertue in his
youth, and gave him inﬂ‘ruétions, which he
acknowledges with great gratitude. Pieters
loved his bottle, and was improvident, and
towards the end of his life was poor and
gouty. He died in 1727., and was buried in
I the church—yard of St. Martin’s.

jOHN BAPTIST MONOYER,*

One of the greatef’t mal’ters that has ap—
peared for painting ﬂowers. They are not
f0 exquiﬁtely ﬁnilhed as Van Huyfum’s, but
his colouring and compoﬁtion are in a
holder Ptyle. He was born at Lille in
1635, and educated at Antwerp as a paint—
er of hiﬁory, which he foon changed for
ﬂowers, and going to Paris in 1663 Was
received into the academy with applaufe ;

drawings of that matter. But this cheat is not {0 great
a proof of Pieters’s abilities, as of the ignoranceof our
colleﬂors, who are ﬂill impofed upon by fuch grofs
frauds.

* V. Graham, and the Abregé.
and

21-8 Painter: in tbe Reign 'osz'ng PI/‘z’lliam.

and though his fubjeéts were not thought
elevated enough to admit him to a pro-'
feﬂ‘orfhip, {he was in conﬁderation of his
merit made a counfellor ; a ﬁlly diﬁiné‘tion,
as if a great painter in any branch, was not
ﬁtter to profefs that branch, than give ad-
vice on any other. He was employed at
Verfailles, Trianon, Marly, and Meudon ;
and painted in the hotel de Bretonvilliers
at Paris, and other houfes. The duke of
Montagu brought him to England, where
much of his hand is to be feen, at Mon—
tagu-houfe, Hampton—court, the duke of
St. Alban’s at Windfor, Kenﬁngton, lord
Carliﬂe’s, Burlingtonshoufe, &c. The au—
thor of the Abregé {peaking of Baptif’t, La
Fofi‘e and Rouﬂ'eau, fays, there three French
painters have extorted a ﬁncere confeﬂion
from the Englifh, “ @‘bn ne peut aller
plus loin en fait de peinture.” Baptii’c is
undoubtedly capital in his way -—but they
muﬁ be ignorant Englilhmen indeed, who
can fee any thing maﬁerly in the two
others. Baptii’t palTed and repaired feveral
times between France and England, but

having

Painier: in the Reign of King Milieu. 21 9

having married his daughter to a French
painter who was fuﬁ'ered to alter and touch
upon his pi&ures, Baptiﬁ: was offended and
returned to France no more. He died in
Pall—mall in 1699. His fon Antony, call-
ed young Baptiﬁ‘, painted in his father’s
manner, and had merit. There is a good
print by White, from a ﬁne head of Baptiﬂ:
by Sir Godfrey Kneller. At the fame time
with Baptif’c was here Montingo, another
painter of ﬂowers ; but I ﬁnd no account of
his life or works.

HENRY VERGAZONA

A Dutch painter of ruins and landfcapes,
with which he fometimes was called to
adorn the back-grounds of Kneller’s pic-
tures, though his colouring was reckOned
too dark. He painted afeiv fmall portraits,
and died in France.

"‘ V. Graham.

PHILIP

220 Painter: in the Reign of King William.

PHILIP BoUL,

A name of whomI ﬁnd but one note. Ver-
tue fays he had feen a pocket—book almoﬂ:
full of fketches and views of Derbyihire,
the Peak, Chatfworth, 85¢. very freely
touched, and in imitation of Salvator Rofa,
whofe works this perfon ﬁ‘udied. Whether

he executed any thing in painting I know
not.

EDWARD DUBOIS

Was born at Antwerp, and ftudied under
Groenwegen, a landfcape-painter, who had
been in Italy, and feveral years in * Eng-
land—a courfe of travels purfued by the
difciple, who after a {lay of eight years in
the former, where he ﬂudied the antique,
and painted for Charles Emanuel duke of
Savoy, came to England, where he pro-

* 80 Graham. I ﬁnd no other account of this Groen-
wegen, nor of his works here.

felled

~ ’

‘ Painter: in the Reign of King Wiliiam. an

felled landfcape and hiﬁory-painting'. He
died here about 1699, at the age of 77,
and was buried at St. Giles’s. His younger
brother,

SIMON DUBOIS,

Was a better mailer. He lived 2 5 years
at home, but came to England as early as
16 85, feveral fmall heads in oil being dated
in that year; they are commonly dif’cinguifh—
ed by the fafhion of that time, laced cra-
vats. Portrait however was not his excel-
lence; originally he painted battles, ﬁnall,
and in the Italian manner; afterwards,
horfes * and cattle, with ﬁgures, the faces
of which were f0 neatly ﬁnilhed, that a lady
perfuaded him to try likenelfes, and fat to
him herfelf. He fold many of his pieces
for originals by Italian hands, faying 'fen‘
ﬁbly, that ﬁnce the world would not do him

*3 He had received fome inﬁruétions from Wonverq
man.

lelIiCC:

222 'Paiﬁtm in the Reign of King William.

juf’tice, he would do it himfelf; his works
fold well, ,when his name was concealed.
Lord Somers dii’tinguifhed better; he went
unknown and fat to Dubois; and going
away gave him 50 guineas, ordered the
robes of chancellor, and when the piéture *
was ﬁnifhed, gave him as much more. The
two brothers lived together in Covent—
garden without any ,fervant, working in
obfcurity, and heaping up money, both be—-
ing avaricious. When Edward died, Si-
mon, left without fociety, began to work
for Vandevelde, and one day in a ﬁt of ge-
neroﬁty, offered to draw the portrait of’ his
eldef’t daughter. This drew on a nearer
acquaintance, and the old man married her,
but died in a year, leaving her his money,
and a ﬁne collection of pictures, and nam-
ing his patron lord Somers executor ; he
was buried May 26, 1708. His young wi-
dow married again, and diﬂipated the for—
tune and collection. Dubois drew a whole
length of archbiﬂiop Tenifon, now at Lam-

f Elfum has an epigram on this picture.

1 o . beth,

Painter: In the Reign of King William. 9.23

beth, and Vandervaart the painter had his

own head by himfelf.

HENRY COOKE

'Was born in 164.2, and was thought to
have a talent for hillory. He went to Italy,
and fludied under Salvator Rofa. On his
return, neither rich nor known, he lived
obfcurelyv in Knave’s—acre, in partnerfhip
with a houfe-painter. Lutterel introduced
him to Sir Godfrey Copley, who was pleaf—
ed with his works, and carried him into
Yorklhire where he was building a new
houfe, in which Cooke painted, and re—
ceived t 501. He then lived ﬁve years with
the father of Antony Rufl‘el, whom I have
mentioned in the preceding volume, but
quarrelling with a man about a mil’trefs
whom Cooke kept, by whom he had chil-
dren, and whom he afterwards married,
Cooke killed him and ﬂed. He then went
to Italy and Raid feven years, and return-
ing, lived privately, till the affair Was for—

gotten.

934. Painter: in the Reign 0f King Mllz'am.

gotten. Towards the end of his life he was
much employed. ’3)! order of king William
he repaired the 9“ Cartoons, ’and other pic-
tures in the royal colleé‘tiOn, though Walton
had the falary. He ﬁniihed the equei’trian
portrait of Charles II. at Chelfea-college,
and painted the choir of New-college-chapel,
Oxford, the ﬁaircafe at Ranelagh-houfe, the
cieling of a great room at the water-works
at Iﬂington, and the f’taircafe at lord Car—
lifle’s in Soho-fquare, where the aﬂ'emblies
are now kept. 1' He had fometimes painted
portraits, but was foon difgui’ted with that
buﬁnefs from the caprices of thofe. that fat
to him. He died'Nov. 18, 1700, and was
buried at St. Giles‘s. I have his own head
by him, touched with fpirit, but too dark,
and the colouring not natural.

* Graham fays he copied the Cartoons in turpentine
oil, in the manner of diiiemper, a way he invented.

1- Among Elfum’s epigrams is one on a. likening
faun by Cooke.

PETER

/

Painter: in tbe‘Reign ofﬁng mum. 2i 5

h

, PETER BERCHETT

Was born in France, 1659, and beginning
to draw at the age of ﬁfteen under La FolTe,

1 he improved fo fall, that in three years he
was employed in the royal palaces. He
came to England in 1681, to work under
Rambour, a French painter of architeéture,
who, fays Vertue, was living in 1721, but:
then ftaid only a year, and returned to
Marly. He came again, and painted for
fome perfons of rank in the weft. King
William building a palace at Loo, fent
Berchctt thither, Where he was engaged
ﬁfteen months, and then came a third time
to England, where he had fuﬁicient buli-
nefs. He painted the cieling in the chapel
of Trinity—college, Oxford, the {taircafe at
the Duke of Schomberg’s in Pall—mall, and
the fummer—houfe at Ranelagh. His draw-
ings in the academy were much approved.
Towards the end of his life, being troubled
with a ptyﬁc, he retired to Marybone and
VOL. III. P ' painted

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1.26 Painfer: in tkeKeign-quing WWW»
painted only {mall pieces of fabulous hif—F
tory ; his. laft. was a baccha-nalian, to which:
he pur 'his name the day befoge he died ; it
was in‘ January 1720, at Marybone,» where
he Was'bufi‘ed.. He left a fon that died loom
After. him at the age of fevemeen.- .

LOUIS CHERON,

Born at Paris in 1660, was ion of Henry
Cheron, an enamel painter, and brother of‘
Elizaheth Sophia Cheron, an admired paint—
refs, 21nd who engraved many ancient gems.
Louis went to Italy, and {2in the * author
of his life, “ A toujours cherehe Raphael:
Sc Jules Romain.”—-—A purfuit in which he
was by no means fuccefsfull. He came
to- England on account of his religion in
1695, and was employed at, the duke of
Montagu’s at Boughton, at Burleigh, and
at CllzithOrtli, where he painted the ﬁdes

* Abregc‘: de la Vie des plus fameux Peintres. Vol. ii.
P' ‘37 l r _.
of.

Painter: in the Reign 0f Khrg'ﬂﬁﬂiam; ‘ 227’
bf the gallery, a very poor performnceu
He had before fallen into difefteem, when
he painted at Montaguohoufe, where he
Was mach furpall‘ed by Baptil‘t, Roulfeau
and La Foﬁ‘e. On this ill fuccefs he turned
{to painting fmall hil’tories; but his belt
employment was deﬁ-gning for the painters
and engravers of that time; few books
appeared with plates, but from his draw-
ings. Vanderbank, Vandergureh, Simpfon,
Kirkall, 81¢. all made ufe of him. His
drawings are faid to' be preferable to his
paintings. He etched feveral of his own
‘ defigns, as the labours of Hercules, which
were afterwards retouched with the burin
by his difeiple, Gerard Vandergutch; and
Towards the end of his life Cheron etched
from his own drawings a fuite of twentyu
two fmall hil’tories for the life of David/g
they were done for, or at leaf’t afterwards
purchafed by P. F. ‘Giffart, a bookfeller at:
Paris, who applied them to a Verlion of the
Pfalms in French metre, publifhed in 17: 5‘.
Some time before his death, Cheron fold
his drawings from Raphael, and his; acadea

P a mic

228 Paihfeﬂ-iﬂltbe Reégn of King Mlliam.

mic ﬁgures to the earl of Derby for a large
fum. He was a man of a fair character,
and dying in 1-713 of an apoplexy, left 20].
a year to his rnaid, and the-reﬁ: of his for-
tune to his relations and to charitable ufes.
He was buried from his lodgings in the
piazza of Covent-garden, and lies in the
great porch of that church.

JOHN RILEY

One of the bell native painters that has
ﬂourifhed in England, whofe talents while
living were obfcured by the fame, rather
than by the merit of Kneller, and depreﬁ‘ed
ﬁnce by being confounded with Lely 5 an
honour unlucky to his reputation. Gra-
ham too {peaks of him with little juf’tice,
faying he had no excellence beyond a head ;
which is far from true. I have feen both
draperies and hands painted by Riley, that.”
would do honour to either Lely or Kneller.
The portrait of lord—keeper North at Wrox-
ton is capital throughout; Riley, who

' was

Painter: in tbe Reign-cf King W’ﬂlz'am. 229~

was humble, modeft, and 'of an amiable cha-
racter, had the greatel’t difﬁdence of himfelf;
and was ealily difguﬂed with his own works,
the fource probably of the objections made
to him. With a quarter of Sir Godfrey’s
vanity, he might have perfuaded the world
i he was as great a mailer. '
He was born * in 1646, and received in-
ﬁrué‘tions from Fuller and Zoui’t, but was
little noticed till the death of Lely, when
Chiﬂinch being perfuaded to ﬁt to him, the
pié‘ture was fhown, and recommended him

to the king. Charles fat to him, but almof’t}

diﬁ ouraged the baihfull artiﬁ: from purfu~
ing a profeﬂion f0 proper for him. Look-

ing at the picture he cried “ Is tl’l'lS like-

me? then od’s ﬁlh, I am an ugly fellow.”
This difcouraged Riley f0 much, that he
‘could not bear the picture, though he fold
it for a large price. James and his queen

1" One Thomas Riley was an aflor, and has a copy
of veri’es addreﬂ'edto him in Randolph’s poems. This
might be the painter’ s father. In the fame place are
{cine Latin verf es by Riley, whom I take to be our
painter himfeli.

P3 fa;

230 Painters in the Reign'd’ King Wiﬂizim;
fat to him. So did their fucceﬁ'ors, and ap,
pointed ’him their painter. But the gout put
an early end to Riley’s progrefs: He died.
in 1691 at the age of 45, and was buried in
Biﬂ'iopfgate-church 5 in which parilh he was
'born. Richardfon married a near relation-
of Riley, and inherited about 8001. in pic-q
tures, drawings and effects, ‘

JOHN CLO‘STERMAN,

Son of a painter, was born at Ofnabmgh,
and with his countryman, one Tiburen,
went to Paris in 167 9, where he worked for
De Troye. In 1681, they came to Eng—
land, and Clof’terman at ﬁrl’t painted dra—
pefies for Riley, and afterwards they paint—
ed in conjunction, Riley ﬁill executing moft
of the heads. On his death Cloi’terman
ﬁnifhed feveral of his piétures, which recom-
mended him to the duke of Somerfet, who
had employed Riley. He painted the duke’s
children, but loft his favour on a difpute
about a picture of Guercino which he had

bought

Paitm‘r: in ﬁe Reigﬁ :3)“ King Wilh’m. 23';
bought for his grace, and which was «after;
wards» purchafed by lord Halifax; and of!
which occaﬁon the duke patronized Dahl.
Cloiterman however did not want buﬁnefs.
He drew Gibbons the carver and his wife
in one * piece, which pleafed, and Cloﬁer—
man was even fet in competition with Sir
Godfrey. He painted the duke and duchefs
of Marlborough and all their children in
one picture, and the duke on horfe-back,
on which fubjeét however he had f0 many
difputes with the duchefs, that the duke
laid, “ It has given me more trouble to re-
concile my wife and you, than to ﬁght 5
battle.” Cloﬁerman, who fought reputa-
tion, went to Spain: where he drew the king
and queen, and f’rOm whence he wrote feve—
ral letters on the piﬁures in that country to
Mr. Richard Graham. He alfo went twice .
to Italy, and brought over feveral good pic.-
tures, The whole length of queen Anne
at Guildhall is by him, and another at Chatf—
worth of the ﬁrlt duke of Rutland 5 and in

’ There is a mezzotinto from it.

P 4- Painter’s—

232 Painters in tbe Reign ofKing Mlliam.
zPainter’s-hall a portrait .of' Mr. Saunders.
Elfum has beﬁdWed an epigram on his pore
trait of Dryan ; yet C lol’terman was a very
moderate performer; his colouring ﬁrong,
but heavy, and his piftures without any idea
of grace. Latterly he married a woman
who waited his fortune, and difordered his
underflanding : He died fometime after
1710, and was buried in Covent-garden
where he lived.

WILLIAM DERYKEﬁ

Of Antwerp, was bred a jeweller, but took
to painting hiﬁory, which he praéticed in
England, and died here about ‘16 99, leaving
a daughter whom he had brought up to his
art.

DIRK MAAS or THEO—
‘ DORE MAAS,

A Dutch painter of landfcapes and battles,
*was in England in this reign, and painted

* Graham.
the

Painter: in the Reign of King lVillz'am. 233

' the battle of the Boyne for the earl of Port-
land. There was a print in two fheets from;
that picture.

PETER VANDER MEULEN

' Brother of the battle—painter fo well known
for his pictures of the military hiﬁory of
Louis quatorze. Peter who came into Eng—
land in 1670, lived to be employed in the
fame manner by Louis’s rival, king Wil-
liam. Qriginally this Vander Meulen was
a fculptor. Largilliere * and Peter Van
Bloemen followed him into England; the
former drew the portrait of Peter Vander'
Meulen, from which there is, a inezzotinto
by Becket.

PAUL MIGNART,

Another painter who overﬂowed to us from
France, was {on of Nicholas Mignart of
Avignon, zen? nephew of the celebrated

‘3‘ See before in the reign of king James.

Mignart.

‘234 Painter: in the Reign‘of King Milk»).

Mignart. There is a print by * Paul Van-
Ibmer, from a pié‘ture of the countefs of"
Meath, painted by Paul Mignart, and ano.’
ther, by the fame hands, of the ladies Hen-
riettzi and Anne, the two eldeft daughters of
the duke of Marlborough,

EGBERT HEMSKIRK+

Cf Harlem, a buffoon painter, was fcholar of
De Grebber, but lived in England, where he
painted what were called, pieces of humour ;
that is, drunken fcenes, QJakers-meetings,
wakes, 8:0. He was patronized by lord
Rocheﬁer, and died in London 1704, leavs
ing a fon of his profeﬁion.

* I have mentioned this perfon in the life of Van-
fomer, in the preceding volume. He was both Painter
and {craper in mezzotinto,

1- V. Graham.

FREDE-

Painter: inmkeign of King William. 23 5:—

‘FREDERIC KERSEB’OOM*

Was born at Solingen in Germany in 16 32,
and went to Amﬁerdam to Ptudy painting,
and {50m thence to Paris in 16 50, where he
‘ worked for fome years under Le Brun, till
he was fent to Rome at the expence of the

chancellor of France, who maintained him

there fourteen years, two of which he paﬂ‘ed
with Nicolo Pouﬁin, whofe manner he imi-
tated; not fo well, I‘fhould fuppofe, as
Graham afferts, ﬁnce having been fupported
fo long by a French minif’ter, he probably
would have ﬁxed in France if he had made
any progrefs proportionable to that expence.
On the contrary he came to England to
paint‘hiflory, in which not meeting with
much encouragement, he turned to por-
traits. Graham fays he was the ﬁri‘t Who
brought over the art of painting on glafs...
.—-I fuppofe he means, painting on look-

‘ I have been told that his true name was Cafaubon,
and that he was defcended from, or allied to the learn-
ed men of that appellation.

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3. 36 Painter: in the Reignjg“ King 'PI/‘z’llim:

ing-glalé. Kerfeboom died in London in

1690, and was buried in St. Andrew’s Hol-
bourn. '

'-—-—- SEVONYANS,

A name*of which I have heard, but can
learn nothing, except that he painted a ﬂair—
cafe in a houfe called little Montagu-houfe,
the corner of Bloomfbury—fquare, and the
head. of Dr. Peter of St. Martin's—lane. Yet
from his own portrait, 1" in the poiTeHion of
Mr. Eckardt the painter, he appears to have
been ’an able maﬂer.

Sir JOHN MEDINA

{Was fon of Medina dc L’Af’curias, a Spaniih
Captain who had fettied at Bruﬂ‘els, where
1[he fonwas born, and inf‘tméted in painting

" He is often called Schonlans, by which appellation
he is recorded in the printed catalogue of the collec-
tion in the gallery of Dulleldorp, where are three or
four pieces painted by him, particularly his own head
with a long heard. I

1- It is now at Strawberry-hill.

Painter: z'mtb‘e Reign of King PVz'llz‘am. 237

by *Du Chatel. He married young and
came into England in 1686, where he drew
portraits for feveral years. The earl of Le—'
ven encouraged him to go to Scotland, and
procured him a fubfcription of 500 1. worth
of buﬁnefs. He went, carrying a large
number of bodies and poftures, to which he
painted heads. He came to England for a
ﬂiort time, but returned to and died in
Scotland, and was buried in the church-
yard of the Grey-friars at Edinburgh in
1711, aged 52. He painted moft of the
scotch nobility, but was not rich, having
twenty children. The portraits of the pro—
feffors in the furgeon’s—hall at Edinburgh
Were painted by him and are commended. "
At Wentworth-caf‘tle is a large piece con—
taining the ﬁrft duke of Argyle and his long,
the two late dukes, John and Archibald, in
Roman habits; the f’cyle Italian, and {upe-
rior to molt modern performers. In Sur—
geon’s-hall are two ﬁnall hif‘tories by him.
The duke of Gordon prefented Sir John
Medina’s head to the great duke for'h'is
colleﬂzion of portraits by the painters them-

4 fclvcs;

‘23:"; Painter: in the Reign of ngmmm

felves- , the duke of Gordon too was drawn
by him with his fon the marquis of HUntley
and his daughter lady Jane in one piece.
Medina was capable both of hiﬁory and
landfcape. He was knighted by the duke
of (Qieenfberry, lord high commiﬁioner,
and was the lal’t knight made in Scotland.
before the Union. The prints in the oétavo
edition of Milton were deﬁgned by him, ”
and he compofed another fet for Ovid’s
_ Metamorphofis, but they were never en'—

graved.

MARCE LLLUS LAROON

Was born at the Hague in 16 5- 3, and.
learned to paint of his father, with whom
he came young into England. . Here he was
placed with one La Zoon, a portrait~painter,
and then with Flesfliier, bUt owed his chief
improvement to his own application. He
lived feveral years in Yorklhire ; and when"
he came to London again, painted draperies
for Sir Godfrey Kneller, in which branch he
Was eminent 5 but his greatePt excellence was

111

Painter: in tbe Reign of King Mlliami 2.39
in imitating other maﬁers, and thofe cons
ﬁderab‘le. My father had a picture by him
that eaﬁly paﬁ'ed for Baﬂ'an’s. He‘painted
hiPtory, portraits, c‘onverfations, both in
large and {malls Several prints were made
from his works, and feveral plates he etched
and fcraped himfelf. A book of fencing,
the cries of London, and the proceﬂion at
the coronation of William and Mary were v
deﬁgned by him. He died of a confump-a '
tion March 11th, 1702. His fon, captain
Laroon, who had a genius both for painte
ing and muiic, had his father’s picture paint-a
ed by himfelf. *.

THOMAS PEMBROKEf

Was difciple of Laroon, and imitated his
manner both in hiﬁory and portraits. He
painted feveral pié‘tures for Granville earl of,

* The {on fold his collection of piétures (among:
which were many painted by his father) by auction
Feb. 24, I725. The fon, called alfo Marcellus, died
at Oxford June 2, 1772.

1- V. Graham. » i
n Bath

e40 Painter: in fine Reign of Kizzg f/Vz'llz'am.

Bath in conjuné‘tion with Woodﬁeld, * and
died at the age of 28.

FRANCIS LE PIPER,

A gentleman 1' artiﬁ‘, with whole lively con-
verf'ation Graham was f0 ﬁruck, that he has
written a life of him ﬁve times longer than
moI’c of thofe in his work. The fubftance
of it is, that though born to an eﬁate, he
could not reﬁf’t his impulfe to drawing,
whichrmade him ramble over great part of
Europe to {’tudy painting, which he fcarcely
ever praé‘eiced, drawing only in black and
white, and carried him to Grand Cairo,
where, as he could fee no piétures, I am fur-
prized he did not take to painting. Molt
of his performances were produced over a
bottle, and took root where they were born : A
the Mitre Tavern at Stock’s market, and
the Bell at Weﬁminf’ter were adorned by
thisjovial artiﬁ. At the former was a room

1 * Scholar of Fuller. See the beginning of this vo-
lume.
1- His father was a Kentifh gentleman of Flemifh
extraftion.
called

Painters?» the Reign-ofKingﬂ/‘illz‘am. 24:1 _
called? the Amﬂera’am, from' the variety of
feéts Mr. Le Piper had painted in it, ‘parti-
cularly a Jefuit and aIQaker. One branch
of his genius, that does not feem quite Io
good—humoured as the reli of his character,
_ was a talent for carieaturas. He drew land-
feapes, etched on ﬁlver plates for the to-
bacco boxes of his friends, and underﬂood
perfpeétive. Towards the end of his life
his circumﬁances were reduced enough to
make him glad of turning his abilities to
fome account.——Becket paid him for de-
ﬁgning his mezzotintos. Several heads of
grand ﬁgniors in Sir Paul Rycaut’s hiflory
were drawn by him, and engraved by El—
der. At laﬁ Le Piper took to modelling
in wax, and thought he could have made a
ﬁgure in it, if he had begun fooner. On the
death of his mother, his fortune being re—
eﬁablifhed, he launched again into a courfe
of pleafure, contraéted a fever, and being
bled by an ignorant furgeon who pricked an

artery, he died of it in 1698, in Alderman- . .

bury, and was buried in the church of St.
Mary Magdalen Bermondfey in Scuthwark.
VOL. III. (L Vertue

‘242 Painter: in'tbe Reign Of King William.

Vertue had a large picture by Fuller, con-
taining the portraits of feveral painters and
of one woman ; the perfon in the middle was
Le Piper. '

THOMAS SADLER,

Was ’9 fecond Son of John 1' Sadler a maf-
ter in Chancery, much in favour with Oli-
ver Cromwell, who 1: offered him the pol’c
of Chief Jui’tice of Munf’ter in Ireland, with
a falary of ,5. 1000 a year, which he refufed.
~ Thomas Sadler was educated at Lincoln’s-
inn, being deﬁgned for the law; but hav-
ing imbibed inﬁruc‘lions from Sir Peter
Lely, with whom he was intimate, he paint-
ed at ﬁrl’t in miniature for his amufement,

' This article is re-adj uﬂed from the information of
his grandfon Rob. Seymour Sadler efq; of the Inner
Temple; Vertue having confounded Thomas Sadler
with his fecond couﬁn Ebenezer Sadler, who was the
perfon that was Reward to lord Salilbury.

1- F or a more particular account of him, fee the Hiff.
'and Critical Diet. vol. ix. p p. 19. 20. and Dugdale’s
Origines Judiciales.

' ' 1 The original letter is ftill in the poffeﬂion of his

great grandfou.
lO - and

Painter: in the Reign of King William. 243

and‘portraits towards the end of his life,
having by unavoidable misfortunes been
reduced to follow that profeﬁion. There
remain in his family a fmall moon—light,
part of a landfcape on copper, and a minia-
ture of the Duke of Monmouth, by whom
and by Lord RulTel he was truf’ced in affairs
of great moment—a connection very natural,
as Mr. Sadler’s * mother was of the ancient
and public-fpirited family of Trenchard.
_A print of John Bunyan after Sadler has
,been lately publifhed in mezzotinto. His
fon Mr. Thomas Sadler was deputy clerk of
7 the Pells, and drew too. His ﬁne colleétion
of agates, fhells, drawings, 8m. Were fold
a few years ago on his death.

GODFREY SCHALKEN,

A great mailer, if tricks in an art, or the
mob, could decide on merit; a very con-
ﬁned genius, when rendering a ﬁngle eﬁ‘eél:

" See her defcent from Sir Henry Seymour in the
two laﬁ editions of Collins’s Peerage.

, Q2 of

 

 

.144; Paiizfers'bz ‘fﬁéR'éifl‘iﬁy‘iKihg Wiﬁiﬁm‘r
of light was all his excellencC. * What
iﬁio‘old one think of a port, if he ‘Wrotc no.
thing but copies of verfes 'on a rainbow?
He was born alt Done in i643 , his father
‘who Was a fchool mallet, wilhed to bring
him up to the fame profe‘ﬁiOn, but ﬁnding,
the boy’ 3 dlfpoﬁtion to painting, he placed
him With Solomon Van Hoogl’traten, and
afterwards with 1- Gerard Dou, from whom
he caught a great delicacy in ﬁnifhing—but
"his chief praétice was to paint candle—lights..
He placed the objeé‘t and a candle in a dark.
room, and looking through a fmall hole,
fpainted by day—light what he faw in the dark
«chamber.. ' Sometimes he did portraits, and
came with that View to England, but found.
the buﬁnefs too much engrolTed by Kneller,
Cloﬁerman and others. Yet he once drew
king William, but as the piece was to be by“

'*‘ Elfum has tlii'sepi'gram on a boy blowing a ﬁre.
brand by Schalken ;-
Striving to blow the brand into a ﬂame,
He blightens his own face, and th’ author’s fame.
]~ There is a printof Gerard Dou, with this inlcrip-
tion, G. Dou. Pié‘tor Lugd. Batav. honoris ergo, pm.
‘ceptorem fuum delineavit G. Schalken.

“i candle-

Pabuzr: ia 221: Reign-q)” King William. 2.45
candle—light, he gave his majef’cy the candle
to: hold, till the tallow :ran down upon his
ﬁngers. As if to jui’tify this ill-breeding, he
drew his own piéture in the fame ‘ﬁtuation.
iDelicacy was no part 'of his charaéter—hav-
.ing drawn a lady who was marked with, the
' {mall-pox but had handiome hands, fhe alk-
aed him, when the face was ﬁnifhed, if {he
muft not ﬁt for her hands.——‘“ No,” replied
Schalken, “ ’I always draw them from my
ihoufe-maid.” Robert earl of Sunderland
employed him at Althorp; at Windfor is
(a well-known piélure in the gallery. He
came over twice, the lad *time with his Wife
and family, and Raid long, and got much
money. He returned 'to Holland, and was
made painter to the king of Pruﬂia with a
penﬁon, which he enjoyed two or three years,
and died at Dort in 1706. Smith made
mezzotintos from his Magdalentpraying by
a lamp, and from another Pié‘ture of a wo—
man ﬂeeping.

Wo‘3 ADRIAN

24.6» Paihters in the? Reigizqf King Wz'le‘am.
ADRIAN VA'NDIEST‘

Was born at the Hague and learned of his
father, a painter of {ea—pieces; Adrian came
to England at the age of feventeen, and fol-
lOwed both portrait and landfcape-painting,
but was not much encouraged, except by
Granville earlof Bath, for whom he worked
at his fear, and drew feveral views and ruins
in the weft of England. One cannot think
him a defpicable painter, for feven of his
landfcapes were in Sir Peter Lely’s collec—
tion. His own portrait with a kind of rag—
ged ﬂuff about his head, and a landfcape in
his hand, was painted by himfelf'. He be-
gan a fet of prints after views from his own
deﬁgns, but the gout put an end to an un-
happy life in the 49th year of his age, and
he was buried in St. Martin’s 1704. * He
left a fon, who painted portraits, and died a
few years ago.

" Graham.

GASPAR

Painter; in the Reign of King William. 247 ..

GA‘SPAR SMIT,Z,*‘

A Dutch painter, who came to England '
foon after the reﬁoratidn, and who from

painting great numbers of Magdalens, was
i called Magdalen Smith. For thefe penitents
fat a woman that he kept and called his
wife. A lady, whom he had taught to draw,»
carried him to Ireland, where he painted
fmall portraits in oil, had great buﬁnefs and
high prices. His ﬂowers and fruit were fo
much admired, that one bunch of grapes
fold there for 40 Z. In his Magdalens he
generally introduced a thiﬁle on the fore-
ground. In Painter’s-hall is a fmall Mag-
dalen, with this @nature $ 1662. He
had feveral fcholars, particularly Maubert
and one Gawdy of Exeter. However, not-
withf’tanding his fuccefs, he died poor in
Ireland I707.

* Graham.

(2,4 THOMAS

w

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24.8 Paiufﬂrin the Reigﬂ‘qf King Willi“;

Jr H O-M A-S VA-N W Y CK

Was. born at‘ Harlem 1616, and became an
admired painter of {ea-ports, fhipping and
{mall ﬁgures. He paﬁ‘ed fome years in
Italy, and imitated Bamboccio. He came
to England about the time of the reﬁora<
tiOn. Lord Burlington * had a long prof—
peél of London and the Thames, taken from
Southwark, before the ﬁre, and exhibiting
the great manﬁons of the nobility then on,
the Strand. Vertue thought it the belt View
he had feen of London. Mr. W'el’c has a
Print of it, but with fome alterations. This
VVyck painted the ﬁre of London more than
once. In Mr. Halﬁed’wle was a Turkifh
proceﬂion large as life, and lord Ilchel’cer
has a Turkifh camp by him. His bel’c
pieces were reprefentations of chymiﬁs and
their laboratories, which Vertue fuppofed
ingeniouﬂy were in compliment to the

* It is hill at Burlington-houfe, Piccadilly; as is a_
view of the Parade, with Charles 11, his courtiers, and
women in mszs, walking. The ﬂame of the gladia-
tor is at the head of the canal. .

{afhion

U
Painters tum Reign of King William 249

fafhion at court, Charles II. and ‘prince’Ru-
pert having each their laboratory. Captain:
LaroOn had the heads of Thomas Wyck amE '
his wife by Francis Hals. * 'W'yck died in
England in 1682. He Ought to have been
introduced under the reign of Charles II.

' but was poﬂponed to place him here with:
his fon,

JOHN VAN W'YCK,‘

An excellent painter of battles and hunt—
ings, his fmall ﬁgures, and his horfes 1 par—
ticularly, have a fpirit and neatnefs fcarce
inﬁrior to W’overmans; the colouring of
his 18RLifC3p€S is warm and chearful.‘ Some-
times he painted large pieces, as of the bat-
tle of the Boyne, the liege of N amur, i &c.

* A gentleman informs me that he has nine etchings
by Thomas Wyck.

1- The ﬁne horfe under the duke of Schomberg by
Kneller, was painted by Wyck.

1 Lord Ilcheﬁer has the liege of Narden by him,
with king William, when prince of Orange, command-
ing at it; and lord Finlater the liege of Namur with
the fame king and his attendants, extremely like. In
Scotland there are many pieces by Wyck. b

Ut

1'

1'50 Pain)”: in tbe Reigniof King W'z'llz'a’miif
but'ihe frhall'er his ipifhires, the greater, his"
merit," ' " At Houghton~ is a'grey—hound’s
head by. him of admirable nature; in king
James’s eolleé'tion was a battle by him‘. He
painted feveral’views in Scotland, and of
the iﬂe of Jerfey, and drew a book of hunt-
ing and hawking. John Wyck married in
England, and died at Mortlack in 1702.
Beﬁdes that eminent difciple Mr. Wootton,
he had another fcholar,

Sir/MARTIN BECKMAN,

Who drew ,feveral views, and pieces of
v Ihipping. He was engineer to Charles II.
and planned Tilbury-fort and the works at
Sheernefs. *

* See Defcription of London and the Environs,
Vol. Vi. p. 143.

HENRY

Q

Painter: in the Reign of King Wilidm; 25!

H E NRY VA N STRAATEN
A landfcape—painter, reﬁded in LondOn
about the year 1690 and afterwards. 'He
' got much money here, but {quandered it
as faﬂ. One day ﬁtting down to paint, he‘
could do nothing to pleafe himfelf. He'
made a new attempt, With no better fuccefs.”
Throwing down his pencils," he ﬁretched
'himfelf out to ﬂeep, when thruﬁing his hand
inadvertently into his pocket, he found a:
ﬂailling; {wearing an oath, he faid, it is al-‘
ways thus when I have any money. Get
thee gone, continued he, throwing the fhil—~
ling out of the window; and returning to
his work, produced one of his bef’t pieces;
This ftory he related to the gentleman Who

bought the picture. 'His drawings are in
the ﬁyle of Ruifgale and Berghem.

‘J. WOOLAS-

 

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:59. mm m $512513“ qf mg William

J. WOOLASTON

Born in London about 167 2, was a portrait-
winter, and, happy in taking likeneﬂ'es, but
i: fnppofe never excellent, as his price was
but. ﬁve guineas for a i clorh. He married:
the datzghter of one Green, an attorney, by
whom he had feveral children, of which one
fan followed hisfather’s. profeﬂion. In 1704.
the father reﬁded in Warwick—lane, and af-
mwatds near Covent-garden. He died an
aged mm in the Charter-houfe. Beﬁdes
painting, he performed on the violin and ﬂute,
and played at the concert held at the houfe
of that extraordinary perfon, Thomas Brit-
ten, the ﬁnalleoal—man, whofe pié‘ture he
twice drew, one of which portraits was pur-
clnfed'by Sir Hans Sloane, and is now in
the Britiih Mufeum. There is a mezzotinto
from it. T. Britton, w . ade much noife
in his time, conﬁdering his low ﬁation and
trade, was a colleélor of all forts of curioﬁ-
ties, particularly drawings, prints, books,
manufcripts on uncommon fubjeé‘ts, as myll

I ~ MC

mmManwﬂwﬁﬁwmnﬂ

tic divinity, the ph-ilofopher’s {Ion-e, judicial;

aftrelogy, and magic ;. and muﬁcal infirm-

ments, both in and out of vogue. Various

were the opinions concerning him :. Some

thought his muﬁcal aﬂ'embly only a- cover,
for {editions meetings -, others for magical

purpofes. He was taken for an Adieiﬁ,h.
_ Prefbyterian, a Jefuit. But VVoo-laiton the
painter, and the father of a gentleman from

whom I received this account, and who W61]:
both members of the muﬁc-Club, amused.

him that Britton was a plain, Iimple, honeﬁ'

man, who only Vmeaned to‘ amufe himfblf.

The fubfcription was but ten {billings '3

year: Britton found the inﬂxuments, am}

they had coffee at a, penny a difh. Sit Hans

Sloane bought many of his books, and M53... ~
(now in the Mufeum) when they were folti

by auﬂion at Tom’s coﬁ‘ee-houfe near. Luci;

gate.

IOHN

454 Painter: in the Reign osz'ng Mam.

JQHN"SCHNELL,

Of whom, or of his Works, fays Vertue, I
never heard, except from his epitaph in
‘St. James’s—church—yard at Brif’tol. H. S. E.
John Schnell, portrait-painter, born at Baﬁl
April 28, 1672, died Nov. 24, 1714. One
Linton was a painter of feveral citizens in
this reign, from whofe works there are prints.
'Thefe triﬂing notices, as I have faid, are
{only inferted to lead to farther difcoveries, or
to aﬁif’t families in ﬁnding out the painters
of their anceftors. The rel’t of this reign
'muﬂ: be clofed with a few names, not much
' more impOrtant.

'Sir RALPH COLE

Appears as the painter of a pi€ture of Tho—
mas Windham, efq; from which there is a
mezzotinto.

HEFELE

 

1.x

Painter: in the Reign ofKing mlﬁa . ‘25-;

..._._.._ HEFELE

A German, came over as a. foldier in king
William’s Dutch troops, obtained his dif-
'charge, and remained here feveral years,
dying, it is faid, in queen Anne’s reign.
He painted landfcapes, ﬂowers and infeéts
neatly in water-colours, but with too little
knowledge of chiaro feuro. He fold a few
of his works tocolleétors, and the reﬂ, be-
ing very poor, to printfellers. They are
now very fcarce. Mr. VVillett, a merchant
and virtuofo in Thames—ﬁred, has about
thirty, and Mr. Chadd, jeweller in Bond-
f’creet, about a dozen.- I .

The BISHOP of ELY.

Vertue fays he had feen two drawings in_
black—lead by the bifhop of Ely, -the one
of archbifhop Dolben from Loggan, the
other of archbifhop Tenifon front White,

‘ but

.u.

mﬁi’mi hﬁdeﬁﬂqﬂWMm

' but he does not fpecify the name of the
biﬂiop. If thefe portraits were done at the
time oFTenibn being primate, it was pro-
bably Simon Patrick bifhop of Ely, who,
ﬁys his epitaph, was illuﬁrious, Optimis
artibus colendis promovendifque. But if 11:
was'the‘biﬁrop, living When Vertue’s »MS. is
dated, Which is, 1725, it was Dr. Thomas
Green. Graham mentions another prelate;

,‘4

.SI/MON 'DIGBY

" Bifhop of Elﬁn in Ireland, whofe limninga
he much commends. 1-

' 1'I‘Confecrated Jan. 12, 1691.

1- T here are fome of his lordfhip’s miniatures at
Shirburn-caﬁle, particularly a head of Kildare lord
Digby, great-grandfather of the prefent lord. The
billiop’s father was bifhop of Dromore, and a branch
of the fame family with lord Digby, but fettled in Ire-
land. I am told that a taﬁe for the art continues in-
die hilltop of Elﬁn’s defcendants, one of whom has a
genius for landfcape.

SUSAN

Painter: in Ilse Reign of King“ FVilliam. a 57

SUSAN PENELOPE ROSE,

Daughter of Gibfon the dwarf, and wife of
a jeweller, painted in water-colours with
great freedom. In Mr. Rofe’s fale 1723
was a half—length miniature of an embaﬂ‘ador
from Morocco, eight inches by ﬁx, painted
by her In 1682, with the embaﬂ’ador’ 5 names
on it, he fat to her and to Sir Godfrey
Kneller at the fame time. I have the por-
trait of bilhop Burner in his robes as chan-
cellor of the garter, by her. She died in
1700, at the age of 48, and was buried in
Covent-garden.

MARY MORE,

A lady who, I believe, painted for her amufe-
ment, was grandmother of Mr. Pitﬁeld ; in
the family are her and her hufband’s por-
traits by herfelf. In the Bodleian Library
at Oxford is a picture that {he gave to it,
which by a ﬁrange mil’cake is called Sir

VOL. III. ' R Thomas

2 58 Painter: in the Reign of King William.

Thomas More, though it is evidently a copy-
of Cromwell earl of ElTex. Nay, Robert
Whitehall, a poetaf’ter, erte v‘erfes to'her

in 1674., on her fending this fuppofed pic-
ture of Sir Thomas More. *9

The Other arts made no ﬁgure in this
reign; I fearce ﬁnd even names of Pro-
feﬁ'ors.

JOHN BUSHNELL

An admired ﬁatuary in his own time, but
only memorable to us by a capricious cha-
racter. He was fcholar of Burman, who
having debauched his fervant-maid, obliged
Buﬂmell to marry her. The latter in dif-
gul’t left England, f’taid two years in France,
and from thence went to Italy. He lived
fome time at Rome, and at Venice; in the
lal’c city he made a magniﬁcent monument
for a Procuratore di San Marco, reprefenting
the liege of Candia, and a naval engagement

- '1‘ V. Wood’s Athenae, vol. ii. fol. 786.
. - between

Painter: in the Reign asz'ﬂg Mllz'am. 2 5 9

between the Venetians and Turks. He
came home through Germany by the way pf
Hamburgh. Some of his ﬁrﬂ: works after
his return were the Sﬁtues of Charles I,
and II, at the Royal—exchange, and Sir Tho-
_mas Grelham there above ﬂairs. His belt
were the kings at Temple-bar. He carved.
feveral marble monuments, particularly one
for lord Alhburnham in Sulfex; one for Dr.
Grew’s wife in ChriI’c—church London, one
for lord Thomond in Northamptonfhire 3
Cowley’s and Sir Palmes Fairborn’s in
Weftminfler—abbey, and cut a head of Mr.
Talman. He had agreed to compleat the
fet of kings at the Royal-exchange, but
hearing that another perfon (I fuppofe Cib‘
ber) had made intereﬁ to carve fome of
them, Bulhnell would not proceed, though
he had begun ﬁx or feven. Some of his
profeﬁion aITerting that, though he was {kill-
full in drapery, he could not execute a naked
ﬁgure, he engaged in an Alexander the '
Great, which ferved to prove that his rivals
were in the right, at leaf: in what he could.
not do. His next whim was to demonﬂzrate

R 2 the

26o Painter: in the Reign of mg William.

the pombility of the Trojan horfe, which he
had heard treated as a fable that could not
have been put in execution. He undertook
fuch a wooden receﬁtaele, and had the di-
menﬁons made in timber, intending to cover
it with ﬁucco. The head was capable of
containing twelve men ﬁtting round a table;
the eyes ferved for windows. Before it was
half compleated, a ﬁorm of wind overfet and
demolifhed it ; and though two Vintners,
who had contraéted with him to ufe his horfe
as a drinking booth, offered to be at the
expence of ereﬁing it again, he was too
much difappointed to re-commence. This
projeél colt him 5001. Another, of veITels
for bringing coals to London, mifcarried
too, with deeper cof’t. Thefe fchemes, with
the lofs of an eftate that he had bought in
Kent, by a law—fuit, quite overfet his dif-
ordered brain. He died in 1701, and was
buried at Paddington, leaving two fons and
a daughter. The fons, of whom one had
1003. a year, the'other 601. were as great
humourif’cs as the father; they lived in a
large houfe fronting I’lyde-park, in the lane

leading

Painter: in the Reign of King Mlliam. 26!

leading from Piccadilly to Tyburn, which
had been built by the father, but was unﬁ-
nilhed, and had neither ﬂair-cafe nor ﬂoors. \
Here they dwelt like hermits, reclufe from
all mankind, fordid and impracticable, and

‘ laying the world had not been worthy of
their father. Vertue in one of his MSS.
dated I72 5, begins thus; “ After long ex-
peétations I faw.the inﬁde of John Bufhnell’s
houfe, his fons being abroad both." He
defcribes it particularly, and what fragments
he faw there, particularly a model in plaif’ter
of Charles II. on horfeback, deﬁgned to have i
been caﬂ: in brafs, but almoﬁ in ruins : the
Alexander and the unﬁnifhed kings. Againft I
the wall a large piece of his painting, a
triumph, almof’t obliterated too. He was
deﬁred to take particular notice of a bar of
iron, thicker than a man’s wriﬁ, broken by
an invention of Bufhncll.

R3 THOMAS

 

962 Painters in the Reign 12f King William.

THOMAS STANTON,

A ﬁatuary, made a tomb in the .church of
Stratford upon Avon, which VertUe fay‘s is
in a good taﬂre.

ID. LE MARCHAND

Was a carver in ivory born at Dieppe ; was
.many years in England, and cut a great
number of heads in baf-relief, and fome
‘ whole ﬁgures in ivory: 'l‘vlr. Weft has his
head carved by himfelf, oval. Lord Ox«
ford had the buff of lord Somers by him.
He alfo did one of Sir Ifaae Newton, ano-
ther was a proﬁle of Charles Marbury, fet
in a frame of looking—glafs. Mr. Willet
has another head of a gentleman, pretty

large, with the initial letters, D. L. M. He
died in 1726.

\VILLIAM

K

Painter; in tbe Reign 0f King William. 253

WiLLIAM TALMA‘EN,

Born at Weft—Lavington in Wiltfhire, where
he had an ef’cate, was comptroller of the
. works in the reign of king William, but of
his life I ﬁnd fcarce any particulars, though
he was an architect employed in conﬁder—
» able works. In 1671 he built Thorefby—
houfe in Nottinghalnfhire, burned a few
years ago, Dynham—houfe in Glouceﬁer-
{hire 1698, Swallowﬁeld in Berklhire, * and
Chatfworth ; the elegance and lightnefs of
the latter front do great honour to the artift ;
the other (ides are not equally beautifull.
The ﬂight of Preps by which you afcend
from the hall to the apartments was thought
noble enough by Kent to be borrowed for
Holkam. Hﬁ fon John T alman reﬁded
much in Italy, and made a large collection
of prints and drawings, particularly of
churches and altars, many of which were
done by himfelf. Mr. Sadler had many

3‘ V. the Diary of Henry earl of Clarendon, for
whom it was built. I

R 4. , altars

164. Painters in the Reign of King W'z'lliam.
altars' and inﬁdes of churches at Rome,
wafhed by him in their proper colours, and
very well executed. In the fame manner
he drew feveral of lord Oxford’s curioﬁties.
A few of his drawings are in the library of
the Antiquarian Society

Sir WILLIAM WILSON
Was an architeft, and re-built the ﬁeeplc

of Warwick—church, after it had been
burned,

Ame-

ANECDOTES‘ of PAINTING, €935.

CHAP. V.

Painter: and other Artiﬂ: in the Reign of
.Queen 11mm.

HE reign of Anne {b illuﬁrated by

heroes, poets and authors, was not
equally fortunate in artiﬁs. Except Knel-
ler, fcarce a painter of note. Wel’tmiqi’ter—
abbey teﬁiﬁes there were no eminent {ta-
tuaries. One man there was, who dif—
graced this period by his architeéture, {as
much as he enlivened it by his wit. F orm~
ed to pleafe both Auguftus, and an Egyp-
tian monarch who thought nothing pre—
ferved fame like a folid mafs of from, he
produced the Relapfe and Blenheim‘! Party,
that fharpcned the genius of the age, dif-
honoured it too—a half-penny print of
Sacheverel would have been preferred to a

Iketch

m x

2667 Painter: and otber Artz'ft'r

iketch of Raphael. Lord Sunderland and
lord Oxford colleéled books; the duke of
Devonfhire and lord Pembroke, pictures, *.
medals, ﬁatues 2 the performers of the time
had little pretenﬁons to be admitted into
fueh cabinets. The period indeed was fhort ;
i fhall give an account of what I ﬁnd in
Vertue’s notes.

_...'._.._ PELE'GRINI

Was brought from Venice in this reign
by the duke of Manchef’ter, for Whom he
painted a ﬁaircafe in Arlington-ﬁred, now
deﬁroyed. He performed feveral works of
this kind, for the duke of Portland and
lord Burlington, a falon, ﬁaircafe, and Ciel-

* 'Pr‘ince George of Denmark, the queen’s huiband,
ﬁnd a colleé‘tion of medals, which her majeliy took in
her ﬂiare of his perfonal eﬁate, the whole of which
amounted to 37,0001. The queen had half; the reﬁ
was divided among his nephews and nieces, who were
{0 many, that they did not receive above 1500!. each.
'V. Secret Hil’c. of England. ‘

5 ings

in 11): Reign of-Queen 11mm. £67
ings at Caﬁle Howard, the ﬁaircafe at
Kimbolton, and a hall at Sir» Andrew Foun-
tain’s at Narford inw Norfolk. He made
feveral deﬁgns for painting the dome of
St. Paul’s, and was paid for them, though ’
they were not executed, and was‘ chofen
one of the directors of the academy. He
painted beﬁdes many fmall pieces of hif-
tory, before he left England,* whither he

* When the famous fyl’cem of Mr. Lawes was fet on
foot in France, the directors, as ollentatious as their
apes, the South {ea-company, purchafed the Hotel de
Nevers, and began to decorate it in the moﬂ: pompous
manner. Pelegrini was invited from England to paint
the cieling of the principal allery, and wrote a de-
fcription of his work—all _th "‘now remains of it ; for
the fyﬂem burll, and the king purchaﬁng the vii'ionary
palace, it was converted into the Royal Library and
Pelegrini’s labours demolil'hed. France, the heathen
gods, the river of Mifﬁﬂipi, religion, and all the vir-
tues, and half the vices, as allegoric perfonages, with
which the ﬂatterers'of the former reign had fatigued the
eyes of the public, were here again re-aﬂ'embled'; and
agarice, and prodigality, and impoﬁure were perfumed
out of the fame cenfers with which amE ition, and vain;
glory, and fuperllition had been made drunk before. Pe-
legrini’s account of that work may be feen in L’Hiﬂoire
des Premiers Peintres du Roi. Vol. ii. p. 122.

returned

2’68 Painter: and other kiwi/25'

returned in 1718; but quitth it again in
I72!, and entered into the fervice of the
eleétor palatine. With him arrived

MARCO RICCI, or RIZZ'I,

Who painted ruins in oil, and better in
water—colours ; and land—Itorms. He and
Pelegrini difagreeing, Marco went to Ve—

V nice and perfuaded his uncle to Come over,
Sebaftian Ricci, who had been Pelegrini’s
mafter, and who W96 foon preferred to the
difciple. Ricci’s works are {till admired,
though there is little excellence in them;
his colouring is chalky and without 'force.
He painted the chapel at Bulf’trode for the
duke of Portland, and in the laf’t {upper
has introduced his own portrait in a mo-
dern habit. At Burlingtonhoufe the hall
and fame cielings are by him, and a piece
of ruins in the manner of Viviano. Ricci
and Caﬂini, another painter here at that
I time,

in the Reign of Queen Ame. 269

time, * paﬂéd off feveral of their own com~
poﬁtions as the works of greater mafia-s.
’ Sebaﬂ'ian painted the altar—piece in the cha-
pel of Chelfea-college; but left England
on ﬁnding it was determined that Sir James
Thornhill fhould paint the cupola of St.
Paul’s. Marco Ricci died at Venice in

1730.

 

BAKER

Painted inﬁdes of churches, and fomc of
thofe at Rome. In Mr. Sykes’s fale was a,
View of St. Paul’s ﬁnce it was re—built, but
with a more fplendid tiltar.

‘-'* Sebaftjan Ricci excelled particularly in imitations
of Paul Veroriefe, many of which he fold for originals ;
and once even deceived La F oﬂ‘e. When' the latter
was convinced of the impoﬁtion, he gave this (ever: but
j uft reprimand to Sebaﬁian ; “ For the future,” {aid he,
“ take my advice, paint nothing but Paul Veronel'es,
and no more Riccis.” V. Life of Mignard in L’Hif-
toire des Premiers Peintres du Roi. P. I 52.

JAMES

27o Painter: and other thz'jif‘?’

JAMES BOG‘DANI

Was born of a- genteel family in Hungary ;
his father, a deputy from the ﬁates of that
country to the emperor. The fon was not
brought up to the profellion, but made
conﬁderable progrels by the force of his na-
tural abilities. Fruit, ﬂowers, and efpecially
birds were his excellence. Qieen Anne
befpoke feveral of his pieces, ltill in the
royal palaces. He was a man of a gentle
and fair character, and lived between forty
and ﬁfty years in England, known at- ﬁrlt
only by the name of‘the Hungarian. He 4
had railed an eafy fortune, but being per-
fuaded to make it over to his fon, who was
going to marry a reputed fortune, who
proved no fortune at all, and other misfor-
tunes fucceeding, poverty and ﬁcknefs ter-
minated his life at his 110qu in Great (lqeen- .
f’treet. His pictures and goods were fold
by‘aué‘tion at his houfe, the ﬁgn of the gol-
den eagle, in Great Qieen-l’treet, Lincoln’s-
inn-fields. His fon is in the board of Ord-
nance,

in the Reign of Queen Anna. » '27!
nance, and formerly painted in his father’s '
manner. .

WILLIAM CLARET

,Imitated Sir _Peter Lely, from whom he
made many copies. There is a print ﬁ'om
. his pi&11re of John Egerton earl of Bridg‘ '
water, done as early as‘168o. Claret died
at his houfe in Lincoln’s-inn-ﬁelds in 1706,
and being a widower, made his houfc—
keeper his heirefs.

THOMAS MURRAY'
Painted many portraits. At the Royal-f0;-
ciety is a piélure of Dr. Halley by him, and

the earl of Halifax had one of Wycherley.
There is a mezzotinto of Murray.

Q

HUGH

, 272 Paz'zgter: and otber ﬂrti/i:

,HUGH HOWARD,

Better known by Prior’s beautiful verfes to
him, than by his own works, was fan of
Ralph Howard doétor of phyﬁc, and was
born in Dublin Feb. 7, 1675. His father
being driven from Ireland by the troubles
that folloWed the Revolution, brought the
lad to England, who difcovering a difpoﬁ-
tion to the arts and Belles Lettres, was fent
to travel in 1697, and on his way to Italy
paﬂ'ed through Holland in the train of
Thomas earl of Pembroke, one of the ple«
nipotentiaries at the treaty of Ryfwick.
Mr. Howard proceeded as he had intended,
and having viﬁted France and Italy, re—
turned home in Oétober 1700.

Some years he paITed in Dublin, but the
greatel’t and latter part of his life he fpent
entirely in England, praéticing painting, at
leal’t with applauﬂe 5 but having ingratiated
himfelf by his fame and knowledge of
hands with men of the ﬁrl’t rank, parti-
cularly the duke of Devonfhire and lord

Pembroke,

in the Reign qf Queen Anne. 27 3

Pembroke, and by a parﬁmonious manage- ,
ment of his good fortune and of what he
‘ received with his wife, he was enabled to
quit the practical part of his profeﬂion for
the hit twenty years of his life, the former
peer having obtained for him the pof’ts of
' keeper of the {late-papers and pay-mailer
of his majei’ty’s palaces. In this pleaﬁng
{ituation he amufed himfelf with forming a
large collection of prints, books and me—:
dals, which at his * death (March 17, 1737)
he bequeathed to his only brother Robert
Howard bifhop of Elphin, who tranfpprtcd
them to Ireland.

Mr. Howard’s picture was drawn by Dahl,
very like, and publifhed in mezzotinto about
a year before his death. Howard himfelf
etched, from a drawing of Carlo Maratti, a.
head of Padre Ref’ta, the collector, with
his fpeétacles on, turning over a book of
drawings.

* He died in Pall-mall, and was buried at Rich-
mond. ' ‘

VOL. III. s J A M E s

v

£74. Painter: and other drtg'ﬂs

JAMES PARMENTIER,

A Frenchman, born in 16 58, was nephew of
Bourdon, by whom he was ﬁrl’t inﬁruéted;
but his uncle dying he came to England
in 1676, and was employed at Montagu-
houfe by La Foﬂe to lay his dead colours.
King William fent Parmentier to his new
palace at Loo, but he quarrelled with Ma-
rot, the furveyor of the buildings, and re-
turned to London, where net ﬁnding much
employment, he went into Yorkihire, and
worked feveral years, both in portrait and
hif’toric painting. The altar-piece in a
church at Hull, and another in St. Peter’s
at Leeds, Mofes receiving the law, much
commended by Thorefby, are of his hand. ‘
His bei’t work was a {lair—cafe at'Work-
fop. To Painter’s—hall he gave the Ptory
of Diana and Endymion. On the death of
Laguerre in 1721, he returned to London,
in hopes of fucceeding to the buﬁnefs of the
latter. He died in indifferent circumﬁances
Dec. 2, I7 30, as he was on the point of go-

mg

i'n Me Reign of Queen Anni. 9.7 5
ing to Aml’terdam, whither he had been in-

vited by fome relations. He was buried in
St. Paul’s Covent—garden;

JOHN VANDER VAART.

Of Harlem, came to England in 1674, and
learned of Wyck the father, but did not
conﬁne himfelf to landfcape. For fome time
he painted draperies for Willing, and por-
traits * for himfelf, and {till—life. He was
particularly famous for reprefentations of
partridges and dead game. In old Devon-
Ihire-houfe in Piccadilly he painted a violin
againi’t a door, that deceived every body.
When the houfe was burned, this piece Was
preferved and is now at Chatfmrth. In
1713 he fold his collection, and got more
money by mending pictures than he did in
the‘former part of his life by painting them.
He built a houfe in Covent-garden of which
parifh he was an inhabitant above ﬁfty

‘9 He twice drew his own portrait, at the age of 30,
and of 60 ; and one of Kerfeboom,

S 2 years.

27 6; 'Paiizm‘: and otheridrtz-ﬂ:

years. He was'a man of an‘ amiable cha-w'
rafter, and'dying of a fever in 1721 at the
age of feventy—four, iwas buried in the right-
hand ifle of the church of Covent—garden.
Prints were taken from feveral of his works ;
fome he executed in mezzotinto himfelf, and
others from Wiﬂing; in which art he gave
inf’truéti-ons to the celebrated John Smith.
Vander Vaart, who was a batchelor, left a
nephew, Arnold, who fucceeded him in the
buﬁnefs of repairing pictures.

RHODOLPHUS SHMUTZ

Was born at Baﬁl in SwilTerland, and in
1709. came into England, where he painted
portraits: Vertue fays, “ They were well—-
coloured, his drap‘eries pleafant, and his wo-
mEn gracefull. He died in 1714., and was
buried at Pancras.

-—- PREUDq

intlre Reign of Queen dim,- 277‘

'———— PREUDHOMM;E,'§

Born at Berlin of French parents, and edu:
cated in the academy there, went for fome
' time to Italy, returned to Berlin, and from
thence came to England in 1712, where he
was much employed in c0pying pictures,
and making drawings in chalk from Italian
mailers for engravers. There was a deﬁgn
of engraving a fet of prints from all. the
belt pictures in this country, and Preud-
homme went to Wilton with that View,
where, after an irregular life, he died in 17.26“
at the age of forty. He had contraé‘ted a
French ﬁyle in his pi€tures from his mailer

Monﬁeur Pefne,

Colonel .8 E Y M O U R,

Nearly related to the prefent duke of So-
merfet and the earl of Hertford, had fome
ﬁne 'pié‘tures, and painted in water—colours
and crayons. In the latter he c0pied from

S 3 Cooper

279 Painter: and other 411%:

Cooper a head of Sir John Robinfon, lieute-
nanr. of the Tower. He alfo drew many ,
hiﬁoric heads, and portraits with a pen. He
lived in the houfe in Hyde-park at the end
of Kenﬁngton-garden.

——-:-BOIT,_

Well‘ known for his portraits in enamel, in
which manner he has never perhaps been
furpaITed but by his predeceﬂbr Petitot, and
his fudcelfor Zincke. Before I give an ac-
count of him, I muﬂ premife that I do not
«anfwer for the truth of fome parts of his
i’tory, which to me feem a little incredible.
I give them as I ﬁnd them in two different
MSS. of Vertue, who names his authors,
Peterfon, a fcholar of Boit, and another per-
fon. Vertue was incapable of fallhood—
perhaps he was too credulous,
1 Boit, whofe father was a Frenchman, was
born at Stockholm, and bred a jeweller,
which profeﬂ‘ on he intended to follow here
in England, but changed for painting, but
was upon fo low a foot, that he went into
2 the

in the Reign of Queen June. 279

the country, and taught children“ to draw.
There he had engaged one of his fcholars,
a gentleman’s daughter, to marry him, but
the affair being difcovered, Boit was thrown *’
into prifon. In that conﬁnement, which Ial’c-
ed two years, he {’tudied enamelling ; an art
to which he ﬁxed on his return to London,
and practifed with the greatel’t fuccefs:
Dahl chieﬂy recommended him. His prices
are not to be believed. For a copy of c0*
lonel Seymour’s picture by Kneller he had
thirty guineas; for a lady’s head not larger,
double that fum, and for a few plates 5001.
If this appears enormous, what will the
reader think of the following anecdote P He
was to paint a large plate of the queen,
‘ prince George, the principal ofﬁcers and la-
dies of the court, and Victory introducing
the duke of Marlborough and prince Eugene ;
France and Bavaria proﬁrate on the ground;
ﬁandards, arms, trophies. The lize of the
plate to be from 24 to 22 inches high, by
16 to 18 inches wide. Laguerre actually

* An a& of tyranny, as the aﬁ'air was not compleat,
nor was there then a marriage-aft.

S 4. . painted

280 I Painter: and other ﬂrtzﬁ:
painted the deﬁgn for it. in i1. Prince 3
George, who earnei’tly patronized, the work,
procured an advance of 1000]. toiBoit, who
took i'fpot of ground in May-fair, and
erected a furnace, and built convenient
rooms adjoyning to work in. He .made fe-
veral eﬂ‘ays before he could even lay the
enamelled ground, the heat neceﬂ'ary being
f0 intenfe that it muff calcine as much in a
few hours, as furnaces in glafs-houfes do in
24 hours. In thefe attempts he walled {Even
or eight hundred pounds. In the mean
time the prince, who had often viﬁted the
operation, died. This put a ft0p to the
work for fome time ; Boit however began to
' lay colours on the plate; but demanded
and obtained 7001. more. This made con-
ﬁderable noife, during which happened the
revolution at court, extending itfelf even to
Boit’s work. Their graces of Marlborough
were to be difplaced even in {the enamel,
and her majef’ty ordered Boit to introduce
Peace and Ormond,. inf’tead of Victory and
Churchill. Thefe alterations were made in
the fketch, which had not been in. the ﬁre,

and

gin ibe Reign of Queen Ame. - f8!

and remained fo in Peterfon’shands, when he
related the Pcory to Vertue. Prince Eugene
refufed to ﬁt. The queen died. Boit ran
in debt, his goods were feized by exeeution,
and he ﬂed to France ; where he changed his
religion, was countenanced by the regent,
obtained a penﬁ'on of 2 50 Z. per arm. and an
apartment, and was much admired in a coun«.
try where they had feen no enameller ﬁnce
Petitot. Boit died fuddenly at Paris about
Chrif’tmas 1726. Though he never exee
cuted the large piece in queﬁion, there is one
at Kenﬁngton of a conﬁderable Iize, repre-
fenting queen Anne ﬁtting, and prince George
{tanding by her. At Bedford—houfe is ano-
ther very large plate of the duke’s father and
mother. I have a good copy by him of the
- Venus, Cupid, Satyr and Nymphs, by Luca.
Jordano at Devonfhire—houfe, and a ﬁne head _
of admiral Churchill ; and Mifs Reade, the
paintrefs, has a very ﬁne head of Boit’s own
daughter, enamelled by him from a picture
of Dahl. This daughter was married to Mr,
Graham, apothecary, in Poland—ﬂeece.
3
L E W I S;

25¢" Painter: am! otbex inf/f:

LEWIS CROSSE

A painter in water-colours, who is not to be
confounded with * Michael Croﬁe or De La
Crux, Whom I have mentioned in the reign
of Charles I. Lewis Croﬁ'e painted feveral
portraits in miniature in Qieen Anne’s time,
many of which are in the collection of the
duchefs of Portland, the countefs of Cardi‘
gan, &c. This CroITe repaired a little pic-
ture of the queen of Scots in the poifeﬂion
of duke Hamilton, and was ordered to make
it ashandfome as he could. It feems, a
round face was his idea of perfect beauty,
but it happened not to be Mary’s fort of
beauty. However, it was believed a genuine
piéture, and innumerable copies were made
from it. It is the head in black velvet trim—
med with ermine. Croffe had a valuable
colleé‘tion of miniatures, the works of Peter
Oliver, Hofkins and Cooper. Among them
.was a ﬁne picture of a lady Sunderland by

* It is Michael Croﬁ'e, of whom there is an account
in Graham.

the

in the Reign of Queen Anne. 28 3

the latter, his own wife, and a head almoﬂ:
proﬁle in crayons of‘ Hofkins ; a great curi-
oﬁty, as I neither know of any other portrait
of that maf’ter, nor where the piéture itfelf is
now. That colleétion was fold at his houfe ’
the ﬁgn of the blue anchor in Henrietta-
ﬁreet Covent-garden, Dec. 5, 1722, and“
Croﬂ‘e died in Oé‘tober 1724..

Statuary in this reign, and for fome years
afterwards, was in a manner monopolized

by

FRANCIS BIRD.

The many public works by his hand, which
infpire nobody with a curioﬁty of knowing
the artif’t, are not good teﬁimonies in his
favour. He was born in Piccadilly 1667,
and fent at eleven years of age to Bruﬂ'els,
where he learned the rudiments of his art
from one Cozins, who had been in Eng:
land. From Flanders he went to Rome,
and ﬁzudied under Le Gros. At nineteen,
fcarce remembring his own language, he
came home, and worked ﬁrﬁ for Gibbons,

then

2842 Paihtar: 47M otbefmliﬂ: A

then for Cibber. He took a“ another fhort
journey to Italy, and at his return fet up] for
himfelf. The performance that raifed his
reputation, was the monument of Bufby.
The latter had never permitted his picture
to be drawn. The moment he was dead,
his friends had a caﬁ; inplaii‘ter taken from
his face, and thence a draWing in crayons,
, from which White engraved‘his print, and
Bird carved his image. His other principaI
ivorks, which are all I ﬁnd of his hiﬁory,
were, "

The converﬁon of St. Paul in the pedi-
ment of that cathedral. Any ﬁatuary was
good enough for an ornament at that height,
and a great f’tatuary had been too good.

The baf-reliefs under. the portico.

The ﬂame of queen Anne, and the four‘
ﬁgures round the pedeftal, before the fame ~
church. The author of the Abrege, fpeak-
ing of Englifh artiﬁs, fays, “ 5. l’egard de la
fciilpture, le marbre gemit, pour ainﬁ dire,
fous des cifeaux auﬁi peu habiles que ceux

- e Thefe two journies, it is kid, he performed on

foot:

qui

in tbe Reign of Queen AMP. 28 5.

qui ont execnté ie groupe de la reine Anne,
placé-devant l’Eglife de St. Paul, 8: les tom-
beaux de/l’Abbaye de Weftminf’cer.” This
author had not feen the works of Ryfbrach
and Roubiliac ; and for the fatire on the
\groupe of queen Anne, we may pardon the
fculptor who occaiioned it, as it gave rife to
another fatire, thofe admirable lines of Dr.
Garth.

The ﬁatue of cardinal Wolfey at Chriff-
church.

The brazen ﬁgure of Henry VI. at Eton—-
college-a wretched performance indeed !

A magniﬁcent monument in Fulham~ A
church for the lord iVifcount Mordaunt.
Bird received 2501. for his part of the?
fculpture.

The fumptuous monument of the laﬂ:
duke of Newcaﬁle in Weﬁminﬁer—abbey,
erected by the countefs of Oxford, his daugh-
ter. The cu nbent ﬁgure is not the work, '
of Bird’s works.

At lord Oxford’s auction was fold his
copy of the faun.

Bird died in 1731, aged 64.

Sir

A > in
186 Painter: 4m? otbe’r Inf/2*:

'Sir JOHN VANBRUGH

Belongs only to this work in a light that is
by no means advantageous to him. He
wants all the merit of his writings to protect
him from the cenfure due to his deﬁgns.
What P0pe faid of his comedies, is much
'more applicable to his buildings—

How Van wants grace !-—

Grace ! He wanted eyes, he wanted all ideas
of proportion, convenience, propriety. He
undertook vaf’t deﬁgns, and compofed heaps
of littlenefs. The Ptyle of no age, no emin-
"try, appears in his works ; he broke through
all rule, and compenfated for it by no imaé-
gination. He feems to have hollowed quar-
ries rather than to have built houfes; and
{hould his ediﬁces, as they feem formed to
. do, out-lal‘t all record, what arch-iteéture will
pol’terity think was that of their anceﬂors ?
{T he laughers, his cotemporaries, faid, that
having been conﬁned in the baftile, he had
drawn his notions of building from that for-

tiﬁed

in the Reign of Queen Anne. 9.31

tiﬁed dungeon. That a ﬁngle man fhould
have been capricious, Ihould have wanted
tafte, is not extraordinary. That he fhould
have been feleéted to'raife a palace, * built
at the public expence, for the hero of his
country, furprifes one. Whofe thought it
Was to load every avenue to that palace
with inferiptions, I do not know; altoge-
ther, they form an edition of the acts of
parliament in ﬁone. However partial the
court was to Vanbrugh, every body was not
f0 blind to his defects. Swift ridiculed both
his own diminutive houfe at Whitehall, and
the ﬁupendous pile at Blenheim, of the ﬁrﬂ:
he lays,

At length they in the rubbifh fpy

A thing refembling a goofe—pye.
And of the other,

That if his grace were no niore ﬂtill’d in

The art of battering walls than‘building,

\Ve might expect to fee next year
A xnoufotrap-man chief engineer.

Thus

6 The duchefs quarrelled with Sir John and went to
law with him, but though he proved to be in the right,~
or

”F3 Painter: and other ﬂrtzﬂs _

Thus far the fatyrift was well founded ;
party-rage warped his underftanding, when
he cenfured Vanbrugh’s plays, and left him
no more judgment to fee their beauties
than Sir John had, when he perceived not
that they were the only beauties he was
formed to compofe. Nor is any thing ﬁllier
than Swift’s pun on Vanbrugh’s being Cla-
renceux- herald, which the dean fuppofes
enabled him to émld my“. Sir John him—
felf had not a worfe reafon for being an
architeﬂz. The faults of Blenheim did not
efcape the fevere Dr. Evans, though he
lays them on the mai’ter, rather than on the
builder;

The lofty arch his vaﬁ ambition (hows,
The itream an emblem of his bounty ﬂows.
Thefe inveétives perhaps put a ﬂop to
Vanbrugh’s being employed on any more
buildings for the crown, though 'he was
furveyor of the works at Greenwich, comp-

or rather decay/2’ he proved to he in the right, {he em-
ployed Sir Chriﬁopher Wren to build the houfe in St.
James’s—park.

troller

in five Reign of Queen Anne. 28’- 9

troller general of the works, and furveyor
of the gardens and waters. His other de-
ﬁgns were,
St John’ 5- Church, Weﬁminﬁer,a won~

derful piece of abfurdity, ’ '

C aﬁle-howard in Yorkfhire.

Eaf’tb‘err’y‘ in Dorfetfhire.

King’s-wef’ton near Bril’tol.

Eal’ton-nei’ton in Northamptonfhire.

One from: of Grimf’thorp.

Mr. Duncombe’s in Yorkfhire.

T wo little caﬁles at Greenwich.

The Opera-houfe in the Hay-market.

Durable as thefe ediﬁces are, the Re-

lapfe, the Provoked Wife, the Confederacy,
and fEfop, will probably out—laﬁ them;
nor, f0 tranﬂated, is it an objeétion to the
two laﬁ that they were tranﬂations. If
Vanbrugh had borrowed from Vitruvius as
happily as from Dancour, Inigo Jones*
would not be the ﬁrf’c architeét of Bri-
tam.

Sir

* Inigo Jones imitated the taﬂe‘ of the antique, but
did not copy it fo fervilely as Palladio. Lord Burling~

VOL. III. T . ton,

 

190 Painter: If :otbe'r zfrtg'ﬂ:

Sir John Vanbrugh died at Whitehall
March 26,, 17:26.- In his charaéter of
architect, Dr. Evans bellowed on him this
epitaph, ’

Lie heavy on him, earth, for he
Laid many a heavy load on thee.

--—-- ROBERTI,

An architect, who built the ﬂaircafe at i
Coudray, the lord Montacutes, Pelegrini
painted it.

ton, who had exquiﬁte taﬁe, was a little too fearful of
deviating from his models. Raphael, Michael Angelo,
V ignola, Bernini, and the bell: Italian architects, have
dared to invent, when it was in the fpirit of the ﬁan-
dard. Perhaps there could not be a more beautiful
work, than a volume colleéted and engraved from the
buildings and hints of buildings in the pictures of
Raphael, Albano, Pietrb Cortona, and Nicol?) Poullin.
It is furprizing that Raphael’s works in this manner
have not been affembled, Beﬁdes thoughts in his
paintings, he executed feveral real buildian of the
much delicacy.

—-—-—- BAGOTTI

in tbe Reign oaﬁxgueen Anne. 2 9 r

_m__ BA<}ofrT1

Is mentioned by Vertue, but not with much
juﬂ'ice, for admirable execution of a cieling
in ftucco, at Caihiobury, lord Eﬂ'ex’s feat.
It reprefents Flora, and other ﬁgures, and
boys in alto-relievo fupporting feﬁoons.

C

j()HIq (3R()KIER

\Vas bred a jeweller, which profeﬁion he
changed for that of medallil’t. He worked
for Harris; and fucceeding him, graved all
the medals from the end of king William’s
reign, of whom he ﬁruck one large one, all
thofe of queen Anne, and George the firﬂ‘.
and thofe of George the fecond, though
Croker died many years before him, but
none of our victories in that reign were f0
recorded.

T2 APPEN»

 

APPENDIX.

The following flight notices rebting to artiﬂ:
who have worked for the Engli/b out came
not to England, or who are tun/only men-
-tz'onezl to have been here, are extmﬁea’ from
Deg/camps. ‘

HUBERT 146088, of Delft, painted
portraits of feveral Englifh; and it is
pretended that to fatisfy their natural im-
patience, he formed a hafty manner that pre-
judiced his works and reputation. Vol. ii.
p. 36.
j‘olan David de Heem, of Utrecht, a cele—
brated painter of ﬂowers, had fold a capital
piece to Vander Meer, another painter, for
2000 ﬂorins. Vander Meer being plunder-
ed by fome troops, had no refource but in
prefenting that curioﬁty to king ‘William,
having inferted the monarch’s head in the
garland. The king brought it to England,
having bellowed a lucrative employment on
the donor. Vol. ii. p. 39.

8 Henry

f P P 'E N D I ‘ X.

Henry Pot, of Harlem, drew the portraits
of the king and queen of England, and of
the principal nobility— at what time is not
fpeciﬁed—probably they were Charles II.
and his mother, ﬁre. during their exile.
Vol. ii. p. 43.

ﬁlm Lievens, born at Leyden in 1607,
was an admired painter of portraits. The
prince of Orange prefented to ‘the Eng—
lilh embalTador (who gave it to the king) the
picture of a Prudent ﬁtting by the ﬁre, which
pleafed f0 much that Lievens came to Eng—i
land on the credit of it, drew molt of the
royal family and molt of the nobility, though
then but 24, (it was in 1630) and {laid here
three years. This is all the account I ﬁnd
of this painter in England, nor doI know
any of his works here; yet the tradition is
conﬁrmed by a MS. catalogue of king
Charles’s piEFures, in which are named, the
ﬁudent; portraits of the prince and prin-‘
cefs; and a falutation of the virgin. Def.
camps, vol. ii. p. I I7. '

Palamm’er S tevem, according to Defcamps,
is ﬁill more our own, having been born at

T 3 Lender!

AP P E~.'N D’I‘XS
London in 1607, though he never practiced
here. His father, an eminent fculptor of
Delft, was celebrated for carving vafes in
porphyry, agate, jafper, and other precious
materials, and wasinvited to England by
James I. where the fon was born, foomafter '
which hc-.was carried by his father to Hol-
land, and died at the age of 31. Defcamps,
' vol. ii. p. 118.

Nickolas de. Helzyiokazle, of Nimeguen,
painted the king of England. I fuppofe,
Charles II. Ib. p. 112.~

The directors of the Dutch Eal’t India-
company gave 4000 ﬂorins for a picture of
Gerard‘Dow, reprefenting a woman with an
infant on her lap, playing with a little girl ;
they prefented it to Charles II. on his re~
ﬁoration; king William carried it back to
Loo. lb. 221.

Giles Schagen, of Alcmaer,”s$Was a great
copyiﬁ, and painted portraits and {ea-pieces.
He was born in 1616, and Defcamps fays,
he was in England. Ib. 253.

King William gave 900 ﬂorins for a pic-
ture by Jl/[ary Van Ooﬂerwyck.

70b}: Henry R005, born at Otterburg in

the

d" P' P” E N. D I? X.
the lower Palatinate in 16 3 I, was a painter
of landfcape and animals, and, according to
Defcamps, came into England; but'pro—
bably Pcaid here very little time.

William Sckellinles, according to the fore-
going authority, was here too, but {laid as
little. He painted in Holland the embark-
ation of Charles II. at the ref’toration,
which was reckoned his cagital work.

7019;: de B4411, born at Harlem 1633, be—
came fo conﬁderable a portrait-painter that.
on his arrival in England, Lely, who if
Defcamps were to be credited, was the moﬁ
jealous of his prefefﬁon, (which is a paﬂion.
more likely to be felt by the worf’c artiﬁs
than by the beft) was exceedingly glad that
De Baan returned Icon to the Hague. He-
frequently drew king William and queen
Mary, and painted king James in his paﬂ‘age
through Hﬂland. John de Baan died in
1702.

That neat and curiOus painter Vandequy-
den was probably in England, for Defcamps
(vol. iii. p. 49.) mentions a View of the
Royal-exchange by him.

T 4 Frami £0

A *P“ P E' N D I X.

Franc/co Mile was here, but made 116
Ray.

Robert dz; Val, who had been employed
by king William at Loo, was fent over
to clean the Cartoons, and place them in
Hampton- court. See his Life 1n Defcamps,
vol. iii. p. 172.

70197: Van Hugtenburcb, of Harlem, was
employed by prince Eugene to paint his
battles, and had a {hare in the deﬁgns for
the triumphal tapel’cry at Blenheim.

Auguﬂz'ne Terweyien, of the HagUe, born
in 1649, viiith England in the courfe of his
ﬁudies.

_ 70/912 Vander Spriet, of Delft, painter of por.
traits, died at London. ‘He is quite un?
known. V. Defcamps, vol. iii. p. 261.

Simon Vander Doe: f’taid here but a very

ﬂiort time. '
”K

INDEX

INDEX'

OF

NAMES of ARTISTS

IN THIS VOLUME,"-

Ranged according to the Times in which
they lived,

In the Reign of
C H A R L E S II.

' SAAC FULLER, p, 6.
I Cornelius Boll, I I.
John Freeman, 12.

Remite Van Lemput, do,
Robert Streater, 14.

Henry Anderton, 18.
Francis Vanzoon, 19.
Samuel Van Hoogﬁraten, 21.
Balth. Van Lemcns, 22.
Abraham Hondius, 23.
William Lightfoot, 25.

Sir Peter Lely, 26.

Jofeph Buckﬂzorn, 36.

John Greenhill, 37.
"Davenport, 39;
Pr. Henry Lankrink, do.
John Baptiﬂ Gafpars, 4.1.
John Vander Eyden, 4.2.
Anne Killigrew, do.
Buﬂler, 45;
Daniel Boon, do.

lfaac Paling, do.

Henry Risk, 46.

 

 

Henry Dankers, do.
Parrey Walton, 48.
Thomas Flatman, do.
Claude Le Fevre, 51.
Le Fevre de Venife, 51.
John Hayls, 53.
Henry

 

Henry Gafcar, 55.
Simon Varelﬂ, 56. ,. V
Antonio Verrio, 59.
Jamea'Hu'yfman, 681
_ Michael Wright. 70.
Edmund Afhﬁeld, 74..
Peter Roeﬁraten, do.
Gerard land, 77.
_ Reader, 80.
John Loren, do. A
Thomas Manhy, 81.
Nicholas Byer, do.
Adam Coloni, 82.
John Griﬁiere, 83.
Gerard Edema, 87.
Thomas Stevenl’on, 88.
Philip Duval, 89.
Edward Hawker, 90.
Sir John Gawdie, do.
3. Flefshier, 91.
Benedetto Genaro, do. ‘
Gafpar Netfcher, 92.
Jacob Pen, 94. ;
—— Sunman, do.

3.2.»;
,

-—— Shephard, 95.

—— Steiner, do.

Peter Stoop, 96.

—— Waggoner, 98.
Alexander Souville, do.
William Vandevelde, 99.
John Voﬁerman, 104..
WillianXViﬂing, 106.
Adrian Henny, 1o7.
Herbert Tuer, 108.
Tempeﬂa and Tomafo, Leg.

Samuel Cooper, 1 10.
,Richard Gihfon,.1 16.
William GiMn, 1 18.
Edward Gibfon, do.
John Dixon, 119.
lexander Marihal, 120.
.illiam Hafi'el, 121.
Matthew Snelling, 122.
Mary Beale, 123.
CharleaBeale, 141.
Elizabeth Neale, do.

STATUAQES, CARVERS,
ARCHITECTS, and ME.-
DALLISTS.

Thomas Barman, 143.
Bowden, Latham and Bonne, do
William Emmet, 144.. “
Cains Gabriel Cibber, 145.
Francis du Sarr, 148.
Grinling Gibbons, do. —'
Lewis Payne, 158. .

John Webbe, 1 59.

William Winds, X60.
Marfh, 161.
Monﬁeur Pouger, 162.

$1- Chriﬂopher Wren, do.
The Rotiers, 172.

 

.— Du Four, 173.
George Bower, 179.

In the Reign ofJAMES H.

William G. Fergufon, 131.
Jacques Rouﬂ'eau, do.
Charles

IUND E X.

Charles de la Foﬂ‘e, 183.
N. Heude, t34.
William deKeifar, do.
-—-— Largillicre, 187.
John Sybrecht, 188.
Henry Tilfon, £89.
.—- Fancati, :90.

Sraroanxns, 85c.

Thomas Beniere, 190.
-— Qellin, 191.
Thomas Eaf’t, 192.

In the Reign of
WI L L I A M III.

Sir Godfrey Kneller, 196.
Johgachary Kneller, 214.
John James Bakker, 215.
Jacob Vander Roer, 216.
John Pieters, do.

John Baptiﬂ Monoyer, 217.
Henry Vergazon, 219.
Philip Boul, 220.
Edward Dubois, do.
Simon Dubois, 221.
Henry Cooke, 223.
Peter Berehett, 225.
Louis Charon, 226.
John Riley, 22%.

John Cloﬂerman, 230.
William Deryke, 232. .
Dirk Maas, do.
PeterVander Meulen, 233-
Paul Mignart, do.

Egbert H/emkirk, 234. 1;.
Frederic Kerfeboom, 235.
-——Sevonyans, 236.

Sir John Medina, do.
Marcellus Laroon, 238.
Thomas Pembroke, 239.
Francis le Piper, 240.
Thomas Sadler, 242.
Godfrey Schalken, 24.3.
Adrian Varidieﬁ, 246.
Gafpar Smitz, 247.
Thomas Van \Vyck, 243.
John Van Wyck, 249.

Sir Martin Beckn‘ian, 250.
Henry Van Straaten, 25!.
J. Woolaﬁon, 252.

John Schnell, 254..

Sir Ralph Cole, do.
Hefele, 255.

Biﬂiop of Ely, do.
Binopir Elphin, 256.
Sufan Penelope Rofe, 257.
Mary More, do.

 

STATUARIES, CARVERS‘:
A R c H I T E c 'r s .

John Bulhnell, 258.

Thomas Stanton, 262.

D. le Marchand, do.

William Talman, 263.

Sir William Wilfon, 264.

In the Reign of A N N E.

—— Pelegrini, 266.
Marco Ricci, 268.
Sebaﬁial

 

IN

Schﬁian Rice}, 268.
———|Bakcr, 269.. ‘
James Bogdani, 270.
William Claret, 27:.
Thomas Murray, do.
Hugh Howard, 277;.
jamcs Parmentier, ‘274.
}ohn Vander Vaart, 275.
RodolpbugrShmulz, 376.
—— Preudhomme, 2&7.
Colonel Seymour; do.

’1). E'X."

U
fir
-— Bait, 178.
Lewis Croﬂ'e, 7.82.

STATUAﬁlEs, ARCHI,
TECTS, 8m.
Francis Bird, :83.
Sir John Vanbrugh, 286.
Roberﬁ, 290.

 

_— Bagotti, 291.

john Crokez, do,

INDEX

a

IeN \D E X,

OF

NAMES of ARTISTS

Ranged alphabetically.

A.
NDERTON, HENRY,
p. 18. ~
Ailiﬁeld, Edmund, 74..

B,
Bagotti, 291,
Baker, 269.
Bakker, John James, 215.
Beale, Charles, 141.
Beale, Mary, I23.
Beckman, Sir Martin, 250.
Beniere, Thomas, 190.
Berchett, Peter, 225.
Bird, Francis, 283. a”
Bogdani, James, 270.
Boit, 278-.
Bull, Cornelius, 11,.
Bonne, x43.
Boon, Daniel, 4.;

Bani, Philip, 220.
Bowden, 143.

Bower, George, 179.
Buckﬂiorn (Jofeph, 36.
Burman, ﬁomas, 143.
Bufhnell, John, 258.
Buﬁler, 45.

Byer, Nicholas, 81,

C.

“Charon, Louis, 226.

Cibber, Caius Gabriel, I45.
Claret, William, 271.
Cloﬂerman, John, 230.
Cole, Sir Ralph, 254..
Coloni, Adam, 82.
Cooke, Henry, 223.
Cooper, Samuel, no.
Croker, John, 291‘.
Croﬁ‘e, Lewis, 282.
D. Bankers,

I N .1) En

D.
Dankcrs, Henry, 46. ‘
Davenport, 39.
Deryke, William, 132-
Dixon, John, 119.
Dubois, Edward, gzo.
Dubois, Simon, 22‘.
‘Du Four, 178.
Duval, Philip, 89.

E.

13%, Thomas, 192.
Edema, Gerard, 87.
Elphin, Bifhop of, 256.
Ily, Biﬂiop of, 255.
Emmet, William, 144.

. F.
Fancati, 190.
Fergufon, William, G. 181.
Fevrc,Claudc Le, 51. '
Icvre, de Venife, 52. ‘
Flatman, Thomas, 48.
Plefshier, B. 91.
Foﬂ'c, Charles de la, 183.
Freeman, john, 12.
Fuller, lfaac, 6.

G.

Gafcar, Henry, 55.
Gafpars,J.Bapliﬁ, 4.1.
Gawdie, Sir John, 90.
Genaro, Benedetto, 91.
Gibbons, Grialing, 143.
Gibfon,Edward, 118.
Gibfon, Richard, 116.
Gibfon, William, 1 18.

Onenhill, john, 37.
Gliﬂiere, John), 83.

H.
Haﬂ'el, William, 121.
Hawker,Edwatd, go.
Hayls, John, 53.
Hefele, 255. '
Hemlkirk, Egbert, 234.
Kenny, Adrian, 107.
Heude, N. 184..
Hondius, Abraham, 23.
Hoogﬁraten, Samuel Van, 2!.
Howard, Hugh, :72.
Huyfman, james, 68.

K. ,
Keifar, William de, 184.
Kerfeboom, Fraéeric, 235.
Killigrew, Anne, 4.7..
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 196,.
Kncller, John Zachary, 214.

L.
Lankrink, Profper Henry, 39.
Largilliere, 187.
Laroon, Marcellus, .238. ‘
Latham, 14.3.
Lely, Sir Peter, 26.
Leinens, BalthazarVan, 2:.
Lemput, Remée Van, 12.
Liwfoot, William, 25.
Loten, John, 80.

M.
Maas,Birk, 232.
Manby, Thomas, 81.
Marchand, D. lei-“2.62.
Mama,

g: N D. E. L ;

Math, 1610‘

Marlhal, Alexander, :20.
Medina, Sir .11, 236.
Migrant, Paul, 2.33.
Monoyer, J. Baptill, 217.

More, Mary, 257. v *:

Murray, 27 x.

N‘
Neale, Elizabeth, 14.1.
Netfcher,Gafpar, 92.

P.
PaerF, Henry, 4.6-
Paling, Ifaac, 45.
aEaxﬁntier, James, 274.
ﬁayne, Lewis, 158.
Pelegrini, 266.5%
Pembroke,Tmlas, 239.
Pen, Jacob, 94.
Pietres, John, 216.
Piper, Francis le, :40.
Pouget,Monﬁeur, x62.
Preudhomme, 277.

0‘5
wellin, :91.
*0 ‘ﬁ
Reader, 86.
Ricci, Marco, 268.
Ricci, Sebaftian, do.
Riley, John, 228.
Roberti, 290.

”u,

Roeﬁraten, Peter, 74..
Rofe,S. Penelope, 257.
Rotiers, 172.
Rouﬂ'eau, Jaéues, 181.

S.
.Sadler, Thomas, 242.
Sart, Fr'an’cisidu, 14.8.
Schalken, Godfrey, .243.
Schnell, Johnyc‘254.
Sevonyans, 236.
Seymour, Colonel, 277.
Shephard, 95. ,
Shmutz, Rodolphus, 277'6.
Smitz, Gafpar, 24.7-
Snelling, Matthew, 122. *3
Souville, Alexander, 98.
Stanton, Thomas, 262.
Steiner, 9 5.
Stevenfon, Thomas, 88.

@Stoop, Peter, 96.

Streater, Robert, 14..
Sunman, 94.
Sybrtchg, John, 188.

T.
Talman, William, 263.
Tempeﬁa, 109.
Tilfon, Henry, 189.
Tomafo, 109.
T uer, Herbert, :08.

V.
Vanbrugh, Sir John, 236.
Vander Eyden, John, 42.
Vander Meulen, Peter, 233.
Vander Roer, Jacob, 216,
Vander Vaart, John, 275.
Vandevelde, William, 99.
Vandieﬂ, Adrian, 246.
Van Straaten, Henry, 2 5:.

Vnnzoon,

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Van , rancis, 19¢ Winde, Willing, 16m.

,, Vanni, Simon, 56. ﬂ Wiﬁing, Willi‘n :06.
“Vergazon, Henryﬁaigx _ 1‘ Woolaﬂon, ]. , ; vi...
Verrio, Antonio, 59.   Wren, SirChjiﬁopher, 1m»

Voﬂerman,”36hp 4,. Wright,- Michael, 70: .

. ’ -§ _wyck, thn Van, 249.'
Waggoner, 98. ‘ ‘ 'Wyck, Thorgas Van, 2.48.,
Walton, Parrey5'48v. 1 S2. A

- Webbe, john, :59. . @oui’c, Gerard; 77.
Wilfon, Sir William, 2.64. . L
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