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 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
 
 OF 
 
 THE PORTRAITS 
 
 IN THE COLLECTION 
 
 OF 
 
 JOHN, DUKE OF BEDFORD, ICG. 
 
 AT WOBURN ABBEY. 
 
 Yes, here its warmest hues the pencil flings, 
 
 Lo ! here the Lost restores, the Absent brings; 
 
 And still the Few best loved and most revered, 
 
 Rise round the board their social smile endeared. 
 
 Rogers. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
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 JAMES MOVES, CASTLE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE. 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The following Catalogue of the Portraits at Woburn 
 Abbey is perhaps but a necessary accompaniment 
 to the collection itself; for the interest with which 
 a spectator regards even the finest and most cha¬ 
 racteristic productions of the best masters in this 
 department of art, is still imperfect, without some 
 knowledge of the qualities or name of the indivi¬ 
 dual portrayed ; and for want of such brief records 
 to a gallery that may have been for centuries accu¬ 
 mulating, not only has the identity of portraits of 
 one age frequently become lost to a succeeding 
 one—provoking a curiosity which no after-inquiry 
 or research can satisfy, but occasionally so indif¬ 
 ferent to the possessor himself, that it is no un¬ 
 common thing, in ancient families, to find numerous 
 well-executed or uncommon portraits removed from 
 apartments which they might aptly decorate, to the 
 dust and darkness of lumber-rooms and garrets. 
 
 Many portraits in the present collection have 
 been recently restored to notice—portraits, it must 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 be acknowledged, of various degrees of merit; 
 but all more or less curious or interesting, apart 
 from other associations, so far as they serve to re¬ 
 vive the recollections of past actors on the busy 
 stage of life, and to bring back before the eye or 
 mind the outward aspect of the times in which 
 they flourished. 
 
 A very imperfect account of the portraits at 
 Woburn Abbey was, in 1782, given by Mr. Pen¬ 
 nant, in his published “ Tour from Chester to 
 London.” At the request of the late Duke of 
 Bedford, in 1790, Horace Walpole engaged in a 
 more correct specification of them — an incorrect 
 copy of which, being surreptitiously obtained, was 
 printed in the “ Annual Register” for 1801 ; but 
 there appear still to have been many portraits in 
 the collection which even that intelligent connois¬ 
 seur entirely omitted, some which he failed to 
 identify, and a few which he has either mistaken 
 or misnamed. 
 
 The present descriptive Catalogue has, there¬ 
 fore, been prepared with entirely new materials, 
 although with occasional reference to his caustic 
 and acute remarks. Some sketch of the personal 
 history or qualities of the personages depicted 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
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 seemed desirable for the service of the visitant; 
 but those which are attached will be found very 
 simple and succinct;—for a few incidental hints 
 are generally all that is required to awaken our 
 remembrance of departed characters, or to satisfy 
 the natural inquiry, 
 
 “ How lived, how loved, how died they?” 
 
 The dates of the birth and death of the parties, in 
 all cases where they could be ascertained, have 
 been affixed—although the costumes in which these 
 are depicted almost sufficiently indicate the reigns 
 in which they lived. A few original particulars 
 and unpublished anecdotes that have escaped the 
 research of former commentators upon portraits, 
 have, in some instances, been interwoven with the 
 descriptions. To these are added blazons of the 
 heraldic Coats ; though unnecessary illustrations to 
 many, they were suggested by the shields them¬ 
 selves, (which were executed by Mr. W. Partridge, 
 the Herald painter,) and recommended hy the very 
 small space which they in general occupy. 
 
 In a manual of so unpretending a nature, any 
 comment upon the portraits, in reference to the 
 style and merit of the artists, would be misplaced. 
 But it may not be extraneous to observe, that the 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 collection, commencing, as it does, at a period nearly 
 contemporary with the first development of por¬ 
 trait-painting in England, may possibly serve, in 
 some degree, to illustrate the history of its progress 
 from rudeness to refinement. 
 
 The long array of figures upon canvass in a 
 gallery, the portraiture of many generations, has 
 always its impressive, often its beneficial influ¬ 
 ences— it awakens moral reflection; it conveys 
 historical instruction. In passing down it, amidst 
 the forms of legislators, beauties, princes, painters, 
 patriots and scholars, who is there that does not 
 mechanically fulfil the recommendation of a living 
 poet ?— 
 
 “ And when a great man’s bust arrests thee there, 
 
 Pause — and his features with his thoughts compare !” 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. v 
 
 INTRODUCTION . vu 
 
 portraits tit 
 
 I. THE NORTH CORRIDOR. 3 
 
 II. STAIRCASE . 51 
 
 III. FRENCH BED-ROOM. 59 
 
 IV. FRENCH DRESSING-ROOM. 65 
 
 V. PRINT-ROOM . 73 
 
 VI. INNER DRAWING-ROOM. 77 
 
 VII. WEST DRAWING-ROOM.. . 61 
 
 VIII. SALOON . 65 
 
 IX. DINING-ROOM. 69 
 
 X. BREAKFAST-ROOM . ^ 7 
 
 XI. LIBRARY. 105 
 
 XII. SOUTH CORRIDOR . I 27 
 
 XIII. GALLERY. 143 
 
 XIV. housekeeper’s ROOM . 209 
 
 ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO THE PORTRAITS. 215 
 
NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 I. 
 
 ANNE OF DENMARK. 
 
 Born a.d. 1574. Died a.d. 1G19 _ Q. Elizabeth to James I. 
 
 Arms of James I—Quarterly: 1. and 4. France and England quarterly; 2. Scot¬ 
 land; 3. Ireland. Arms of Queen Anne-A cross gules, surmounted of 
 
 another, argent, between 4 quarters : 1. Or, seme of hearts, proper, 3 lions pas¬ 
 sant guardant, azure, crowned or, for Denmark : 2. Gules , a lion rampant 
 crowned or, holding in his paws a battleaxe, argent , for Norway : 3. Azure, 
 3 crowns proper, for Sweden ; 4. Or, 10 hearts, 4, 4, and 2, gules, a lion pas¬ 
 sant guardant in chief, azure, for Gothes _The base of the whole escocheon 
 
 under the cross is gules, charged with a wivern, tail nowed, and wings expanded, 
 or, the ancient ensign of the Vandals. Upon the cross an escocheon, with the 
 arms of Sleswick, Holstein, Stormerk, and Ditzmers, quartered; and over the 
 whole, an inescocheon, Per pale, 1. Or, 2 bars gules, for Oldenburg ; 2. Azure, 
 a cross formee fitchee, or, for Delmenhurst. 
 
 POURBUS. 
 
 Holding a fan of feathers: upon her right shoulder is 
 the cipher S, surmounted by a crown, to designate her 
 Queen of Scotland; and in her hair the letter C circum¬ 
 scribing the figure 4, as being sister to Christian IV. of 
 Denmark. 
 
 She was the second daughter of Frederick II. kino- 
 
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 of Denmark and Norway, by Sophia, daughter of Ulric, 
 Duke of Mecklenburg; and was married in 1589 to 
 James VI. of Scotland, who, in a chivalric sally at 
 variance with his usual temper, braved a wintry and 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 tempestuous sea to convoy her from Norway; conceal¬ 
 ing the voyage from all his counsellors, in order, as he 
 said, to disprove the common rumour that he was " led 
 by the nose” by his Chancellor, and that “ he might not 
 be unjustly slandered as an irresolute asse, who could 
 do nothing of himself.” 
 
 Cardinal Bentivoglio, the pope’s nuncio at Brussels, 
 represents Anne of Denmark to his court as one of the 
 handsomest princesses of her time, of great affability 
 and courtesy, delighting beyond measure in admiration 
 and praises of her beauty, of which she was so vain, that 
 it was, he says, matter of doubt which went farthest,— 
 the king in the ostentation of his learning, or she in the 
 display of her person, — her great passion being for 
 masks and other entertainments, which served as a public 
 theatre for its exhibition. 
 
 This love of ostentation, although instrumental in 
 fostering the genius of Jonson, and other writers of her 
 time, added enormously to the embarrassment of the 
 king’s finances; whilst her naturally imperious spirit and 
 too unguarded affability threw a frequent cloud on his 
 domestic hours. In Scotland she busied herself much 
 with state-intrigues; but in England the wand of Sir 
 Robert Cecil soon disenchanted her of all political in¬ 
 fluence or power. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
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 II. 
 
 JOHN RUSSELL, FIRST EARL OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born about a.d. I486. Died a.b. 1555 - Henry VII. to Q. Mary. 
 
 Arms ; Argent, a lion rampant gules , on a chief sable , three escallops of the field 
 for Russell; bearing on a scutcheon of pretence, Quarterly—1. Sable, 3 
 dovecotes argent , a mullet for difference, for Safcote ; 2. Gules, 4 fusils in fesse 
 ermine, for Dyxham ; 3. Gules, 3 pair of bridge-arches on columns argent, for 
 Arches : 4. Argent , on a cross gules 5 mullets or, for Semark. 
 
 HOLBEIN. 
 
 With his wand of office in his hand, as Comptroller of 
 the Household to King Henry VIII.: painted in 1535. 
 He was a son of James Russell, Esq. of Kingston-Russell, 
 Dorsetshire, an estate conferred by William the Con¬ 
 queror on his Norman ancestor, Hugh du Rozel, lord 
 of Barneville, which is still, after more than twenty 
 generations, in possession of the same family. His 
 mother was Alicia, daughter of John Wyse, Esq., of 
 Sydenham, in Devonshire. 
 
 Being introduced at the court of Henry VII. by 
 Philip, Archduke of Austria, he attended his successor, 
 Henry VIII. in several of his expeditions into France, 
 and was employed by him in various important missions, 
 particularly with the Due de Bourbon, during those great 
 military movements which resulted in the battle of Pavia. 
 After the disgrace of Wolsey, whose uniform policy it 
 was to engross all favour to himself, he was successively 
 made Comptroller of the Household, Lord Privy Seal, 
 Lord High Admiral, and created Baron Russell of Che- 
 nies. In 1550, after suppressing the formidable insur¬ 
 rection in Devonshire, Edward the Sixth created him 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 karl of Bedford. Although known as a great favourer of 
 the Reformation, both by his writings and his protection 
 of Coverdale and Tindal, the former of whom officiated 
 as his. chaplain, and although he had been a party to 
 the will of Edward VI. in favour of Lady Jane Grey, 
 Queen Mary found him, on her accession, of too great 
 influence and consideration to be slighted, and accord¬ 
 ingly reinstated him in his office of Privy Seal. Having 
 weathered the storms and factions of four successive 
 reigns, by no unmanly compliance, but by the wisdom, 
 the evenness, and moderation of his conduct, this vene¬ 
 rable “ patriarch of his family,” as he is justly termed by 
 Lord Orford, expired on the 14th of March, 1555, hoary 
 with honours as with years. His countess, Anne, sole 
 daughter and heir of Sir Guy Sapcote of Elton, in Hunt¬ 
 ingdonshire, whom he married in 1526, survived till the 
 19th of August, 1557. 
 
 III. 
 
 FRANCIS RUSSELL, SECOND EARL OF BEDFORD. 
 In a small circle. The same as No. CCXXXII. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
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 IV. V. 
 
 ANNE, COUNTESS OF WARWICK. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1547. Died a.d. 1604- Edward VI. to James /. 
 
 Arms ; Or, a lion rampant vert, tail forked, for Dudley,— impaled with Argent , a 
 lion rampant gules , on a chief, sable , 3 escallops of the first, for Russell. 
 
 MARK GARRARD. 
 
 The eldest of the three daughters of Francis, second 
 Earl of Bedford, by his first wife, Margaret, daughter of 
 Sir John St.-John of Bletsoe, and married in 1565 to 
 Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, brother to Robert, 
 Earl of Leicester, who crowned the nuptials with a 
 splendid tournament, which Queen Elizabeth, and her 
 guests, the Margrave and Margravine of Baden, honoured 
 with their presence. Pietro Bizzarri, an Italian at that 
 time in England, has celebrated, in a Latin ode of much 
 beauty, her great merits, accomplishments, and personal 
 attractions. Having been one of the queen’s maids of 
 honour before her marriage, the Countess of Warwick 
 was still continued in attendance on her person, and 
 came to be reputed her chief female favourite. 
 
 The second of these portraits was painted in 1600, 
 but three years before the death of her royal mistress, 
 and within four of her own. Forty years of intimacy 
 had in no respect diminished her influence with Elizabeth, 
 which, from a native benevolence of disposition, she is 
 stated to have exercised for none but virtuous and 
 amiable purposes. At Chenies, where her embalmed 
 remains were deposited, her memory is still held in 
 veneration, as she founded there, by her last will, a 
 number of almshouses, for widows of poor condition. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 VI. 
 
 ELIZABETH, BARONESS RUSSELL OF THORNHAUGH. 
 
 Bom a.d. 1568. Died a.il 1611.- Q. Elizabeth to James I. 
 
 Arms ; Russell, with a martlet for difference, hearing on a scutcheon of pretence, 
 Sable, a lion rampant between 8 cross crosslets, argent , for Long. 
 
 LUCAS DE HEERE. 
 
 Holding a fan of peacock’s feathers, and apparelled in a 
 black dress figured with white and gold, a large plain 
 ruff, and full sleeves, upon one of which is a curious 
 ornament of jewellery, representing a naked man sup¬ 
 porting a coronet, and bayed at by his hounds ; whilst 
 on the other is her monogram E. R. hung round with 
 fulgent jewels. 
 
 She was the daughter and sole heir of Sir Henry 
 Long, of Shengay, in Cambridgeshire, by Dorothy, 
 daughter of Nicholas Clerke, Esq.; and in 1583 married 
 Sir William Russell, fourth son of Francis, second Earl 
 of Bedford, before he was created Baron Russell of 
 Thornhaugh. When he was appointed Lord Deputy 
 of Ireland, she accompanied him thither, and, as we 
 learn from his diary, often attended him in his hunt¬ 
 ing excursions to the moors and mountains, where the 
 wild wolf was the object of pursuit. Lady Fairfax, 
 in her Memoirs, relates a singular dream, which was 
 very remarkably fulfilled, in which this Lady Russell 
 figures, with the same “ large sleeves,” doubtless, as those 
 in which she is represented here. She was a lady of 
 great piety, and left behind her many “ holy meditations 
 and religious comments on the Scriptures,” dying with 
 great resignation and sereneness, the 12th of June, 1611. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
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 VII. 
 
 WILLIAM, BARON RUSSELL OF THORNHAUGH. 
 
 Born a.d. 1553. Died a.d. 1613- Q. Elizabeth to James I. 
 
 Arms ; Russell, with a martlet for difference ; and, on a scutcheon of pretence, 
 Sable , a lion rampant between 8 cross crosslets, argent , for Long. 
 
 The husband of the preceding lady, and youngest of the 
 four sons of Francis, second earl of Bedford, and Mar¬ 
 garet St.-John. After serving with great reputation in the 
 Low Countries, he was appointed by Queen Elizabeth, 
 in 1593, Lord Deputy of Ireland, in a difficult conjunc¬ 
 ture, which was heightened by the artifices and treachery 
 of the Earl of Tyrone, who soon drew after him, in open 
 rebellion, many of the Irish chieftains, besides the noted 
 outlaw Pheagh Mac-Hugh. By the perpetual incursions 
 which he made into his country. Sir William reduced the 
 rebel earl to the greatest straits; but being insufficiently 
 supported by the English cabinet, which was not for driving 
 the earl to extremity, he at the end of four years solicited 
 his recall, signalising the last days of his rule in Ireland by 
 a military excursion to the fastnesses of Glendalogh, in 
 which he slew the terrible freebooter Mac-Hugh. He was 
 raised to the peerage in 1603, by James I., by the title of 
 Baron Russell of Thornhaugh in Northamptonshire, and 
 died in 1613, at the age of sixty. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 PORTRAIT OF A PERSONAGE UNKNOWN. 
 
 A Knight in a suit of armour, with his left hand holding 
 the pommel of his sword, his right a walking-stick, and 
 his helmet lying on a table beside him. Painted in 1597, 
 and in the 28th year of his age. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 IX. 
 
 LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD* 
 
 Born a.d. 1582. Died a.d. 1027 - Q- Elizabeth to James I. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , a lion rampant gules, on a chief sable three escallops of the first, for 
 Russell ; impaled with Sable, a fret argent , for Harrington. 
 
 MARK GARRARD. 
 
 The eldest daughter of Sir John, afterwards Lord Har¬ 
 rington of Exton, by Anne, sole daughter and heiress of 
 Robert Kelway, Esq., and married, in 1594, to Edward, 
 third earl of Bedford. On the death of Queen Elizabeth, 
 she went into Scotland to pay her respects to the new 
 queen, Anne of Denmark, by whom she was appointed 
 a lady of the bed-chamber; and by her vivacity, her 
 talent, and her beauty, became one of the queen’s chief 
 favourites, and one of The most shining ornaments of the 
 court. She was a generous patroness of the poets of 
 that age, and by her devotion to medallic history, hor¬ 
 ticulture, and classical study, established a reputation 
 for virtu which has rendered her name famous to our 
 own times. The extravagant profuseness that has been 
 charged against her by subsequent writers, was the fault 
 less of the individual than the age, which was one of 
 unbounded luxury, and in which all the nobility, her 
 contemporaries, more or less participated. Having been 
 educated with the Queen of Bohemia, she maintained a 
 correspondence with that accomplished princess, till her 
 own death, on the 26th of May, 1627. 
 
 * The countess is represented, in this painting, in a very fanciful 
 costume ; a much more interesting and correct likeness of her occurs in 
 the Gallery, No. CCXXXVI. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
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 X. 
 
 EDWARD RUSSELL, THIRD EARL OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1575- Died a.d. 1627. - Q • Elizabeth to James I. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , a lion rampant gules , on a chief sable three escallops of the first, for 
 Russell ; impaled with Sable, nfret argent, for Harrington. 
 
 Painted in 1616, probably by Mark Garrard. He was 
 the only surviving son of Sir Francis, afterwards Lord 
 Russell, third son of Francis, second earl of Bedford. 
 His mother was Juliana, sole daughter and heiress of 
 that brave border chieftain. Sir John Forster, Queen 
 Elizabeth’s Warden of the Middle Marches. 
 
 By his father’s death, in a sudden conflict raised by 
 the Scots at Oswine-Middle, in the summer of 1585, 
 when he himself was little more than ten years of age, 
 he became third Earl of Bedford; and after paying 
 suit to the lady who succeeds, which some untoward 
 circumstance rendered unsuccessful, he, in 1594, at her 
 father’s house at Stepney, married Lucy, one of the three 
 daughters of Sir John Harrington, of Exton; but being 
 fonder of the shades of private life than the stir and 
 splendour of a court, he appears to have taken but a 
 very limited part in those amusing pageantries in which 
 his lady figured. He was one of the party invited to 
 the house of the Earl of Essex when that nobleman 
 was concerting the insurrection that proved fatal to him ; 
 but, though unapprised of his intentions, he had the 
 sagacity to divine them, and by early separating from the 
 earl’s retinue, as they passed through the streets, escaped 
 the snare that had been laid to compromise him. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XI. 
 
 KATHARINE, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born a.d. 1575-G. Died a.d. 1057-- Q• Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 Arms ; those of Russell —and, on a scutcheon of pretence, Argent , on a cross sable , 
 a leopard’s head or, for Brydges. 
 
 MARK GARRARD. 
 
 A very curious picture; representing her, as a performer 
 perhaps in the masque before Queen Elizabeth, at 
 Sudeley Castle, in a scenic dress, a gown flourished 
 over with rich ornaments, and a red mantle, her hair 
 flowing luxuriously below her waist, and a pearl coronet 
 or crown upon her head. 
 
 She was the elder of the two coheiresses of Giles 
 Brydges, third Lord Chandos, by the Lady Frances 
 Clinton, daughter of Edward, first earl of Lincoln; and 
 in 1608 became the wife of Sir Francis, afterwards second 
 Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, and finally fourth Earl 
 of Bedford. It was after supping with this Countess of 
 Bedford, on his fifty-ninth birth-day, April 10th, 1630, 
 that William, Earl of Pembroke, “ a man the most uni¬ 
 versally beloved of any of the age,” expired,— fulfilling 
 thereby, in a manner which excited much notice, not 
 only a horoscope of his nativity, cast by his tutor at 
 college many years before, but also an idle prophecy of 
 the eccentric soothsayer. Lady Eleanor Davies, at which 
 he used to jest. Katharine, countess of Bedford, survived 
 till January 30th, 1657, after witnessing the overthrow of 
 that monarchy, the authority of which her husband had 
 ineffectually laboured to restrain within the limits of the 
 constitution. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
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 XII. XIII. 
 
 FRANCIS RUSSELL, afterwards BARON RUSSELL 
 OF THORNHAUGH, &c. 
 
 Born a.d. 1588. Died a.d. 1641 - Q. Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 Arms ; Argent, a lion rampant gules, on a chief sable three escallops of the first. 
 
 XIII. CORNELIUS JANSEN. 
 
 The first is a curious painting, representing him as a boy 
 in a white hunting-jacket, with green hose, two dogs in 
 couples near him, and a hawk upon his hand. The 
 second is beautifully painted, and at a somewhat later 
 period of his life. He was the only son of William, 
 baron of Thornhaugh, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir 
 Henry Long; he was knighted by James I. in 1607, and 
 in the following year married the preceding lady. Having 
 completed his education at one of the inns of court, he 
 attached himself to Sir Robert Cotton, Selden, Elliott, 
 and others of the popular party, and distinguished him¬ 
 self in the earliest struggles entered into by some of the 
 nobility, to counteract the exercise of those arbitrary 
 maxims upon which James the First sought to establish 
 his government. He thereby prepared himself for that 
 more important contest with tyrannical prerogative which 
 opened on the nation with the reign of Charles the First, 
 who studiously, but ineffectually sought to repress his 
 patriotic spirit by one of those Starchamber prosecutions 
 which were then so common and so odious. He suc¬ 
 ceeded to his father’s title in 1613; and by the death of 
 his cousin Edward, without lineal issue, became fourth 
 Earl of Bedford in the year 1627.—See also No. CXVIII. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 GILES BRYDGES, THIRD LORD CHANDOS.* 
 
 Born a.d. 1545-6. Died a.d. 1593-4- Henry VIII. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , on a cross sable , a leopard’s head or, for Brydges ; impaled with 
 Argent, 6 cross crosslets fitcliee sable, 3, 2, and 1, on a chief azure, 2 mullets or, 
 pierced gules , for Clinton. 
 
 JEROME CUSTODIS OF ANTWERP. 
 
 The nobleman here portrayed was the eldest son of Ed¬ 
 mund, second Lord Chandos, by Dorothy, fifth daughter 
 of Edmund, Lord Bray, and husband of Lady Frances 
 Clinton, daughter of Edward, Earl of Lincoln. He was 
 elected to parliament for Gloucestershire in the life-time 
 of his father, whom, in 1573, he succeeded in the barony. 
 
 In 1592, he had the honour of entertaining Queen 
 Elizabeth, and the chief personages of her court, at his 
 fine old baronial seat of Sudeley Castle; on which 
 occasion a complimentary effusion of set speeches from 
 shepherds and shepherdesses, in a language truly Doric, 
 was delivered in welcome of her. “ As for the honour¬ 
 able lord and lady of the castle,” said one of them, 
 “ what happiness they conceive, I would it were possible 
 for themselves to express; then should your majesty see, 
 that all outward entertainment were but a smoke rising 
 from the inward affections, which, as they cannot be seen, 
 being in the heart, so can they not be smothered, appear¬ 
 ing in their countenance.” Lord Chandos survived this 
 visit but little more than a year, dying in February, 1594. 
 
 * Painted in the forty-third year of his age, July 8, 1589, by the 
 above artist, who has affixed his name to this and the two succeeding 
 portraits, but whose works appear to be very rare in England, as no men¬ 
 tion is made of him either by Pilkington or Bryant. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
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 XV. 
 
 FRANCES, LADY CHANDOS, jet. su;e 37. 
 
 Born a.d. 1552. Died a.d. 1623.- Edward VI. to James I. 
 
 Arms ; Argent, on a cross sable, a leopard’s head or, for Brydges ; impaled with 
 Argent, C cross crosslets fitchee sable, 3, 2, and 1, on a chief azure, 2 mullets or, 
 pierced gules, for Clintoh. 
 
 JEROME CUSTODIS. 
 
 One of the two daughters of Edward Clinton, first earl 
 of Lincoln, by his second wife, Ursula, daughter of Ed¬ 
 ward, Lord Stourton. The following letter, from the 
 ILarleian MSS., addressed to a physician in attendance 
 on Lady Arabella Stuart, during her imprisonment, gives 
 us a pleasing impression of her sympathy and piety. 
 
 “ Doctor Mounford,— I desire the widow’s prayer, with my 
 humble service, may by you be presented to the Lady Arabella, 
 who I hope God will so fortify her mind, as she will take this cross 
 with such patience as may be to His pleasing, who, as this day sig¬ 
 nifies, took upon him a great deal more for us, and when he seeth 
 time, he will send comfort to the afflicted. I pray you, if you 
 want for the honourable lady what is in this house, you will send 
 for it; for most willingly the master and mistress of the house 
 would have her ladyship command it. If the drink do like my 
 lady, spare not to send. The knight and my daughter* remember 
 their kind commendations unto yourself. So I commit you to God, 
 and rest 
 
 “ Your friend, 
 
 “ FRANCES CHANDOS. 
 
 “ To my friend, Dr. Mounford, at Barnet.’’ 
 
 She survived her husband twenty-nine years, dying at 
 Woburn Abbey in 1623, and was interred at Chenies, 
 where a handsome marble monument was erected to her 
 memory by her grandson, William, fifth Earl of Bedford. 
 
 Sir John and Lady Kennedy. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 ELIZABETH BRYDGES, afterwards LADY 
 KENNEDY. 
 
 Born a.d. 1575. Died a.d. 1617-Q. Elizabeth to James I. 
 
 Arms ; Argent on a cross sable, a leopard’s head or. 
 
 JEROME CUSTODIS. 
 
 The younger daughter and coheiress of the two pre¬ 
 ceding personages.* She was one of the maids of honour 
 to Queen Elizabeth, and, as we gather from the cor¬ 
 respondence of her times, was much admired for her 
 personal attractions, particularly, it would appear, by 
 the Earl of Essex; which led the queen to visit her 
 occasionally with some feeling marks of her displeasure. 
 After thus shining for a while, as a meteor of court 
 beauty, she, with a fortune of more than sixteen thou¬ 
 sand pounds, married Sir John Kennedy, one of the new 
 Scottish knights of James I. in entire ignorance that he 
 had already a wife then living in Scotland. The startling 
 discovery of this fact, some time after, proved fatal to their 
 domestic harmony; and Lady Kennedy, although the 
 first wife was then dead, was driven to dispute, in the 
 ecclesiastical court, the validity of her own marriage. 
 From this, or from some other cause, she was reduced 
 to considerable poverty before her death, which occurred 
 October 18, 1617, accompanied or preceded by “ strange 
 convulsions, which made some perhaps suspect more than 
 there was cause—that she had done herself some wrong.” 
 
 * She is painted with jewels in her hair, forming the monogram 
 H. W., and a curious piece of jewellery on her right shoulder, represent¬ 
 ing a toad, vert , riding on a dragon. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
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 XVII. 
 
 KATHARINE BRYDGES, afterwards COUNTESS 
 OF BEDFORD. 
 
 The same as No. XI., but in earlier youth. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN UNKNOWN. 
 
 In a black dress furred with ermine, and a feather in 
 his cap. It may possibly be a representation, in his 
 early youth, of John, Lord Russell, eldest son of Francis, 
 second earl of Bedford, and of Margaret St.-John ; who, 
 after marrying Elizabeth, one of the five learned daugh¬ 
 ters of Sir Anthony Cooke, and widow of Sir Thomas 
 Hobby, ambassador to France from Queen Elizabeth, 
 died in 1584, during the lifetime of his father, and has 
 a monument of marble and alabaster erected over his 
 remains, in St. Edmond’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey, 
 with inscriptions by his widow in Latin and Greek verse, 
 which commemorate “ his piety, his learning, and those 
 virtues which outshone the lustre of his birth.” 
 
 XIX. 
 
 MARGARET, LADY HERBERT. 
 
 The same as No. CXXI., and painted (in all probability 
 after Vandyck) by Theodore Russell. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XX. 
 
 DIANA, LADY NEWPORT. 
 
 Born a.d. 1622. Died a.d. 1696-7.- Charles I. to William and Mary. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , a chevron gules between 3 leopards’ heads sable, for Newport ; 
 impaled with those of Russell. 
 
 After Sir PETER LELY. 
 
 The fourth daughter of Francis, fourth earl, and Katha¬ 
 rine, countess of Bedford, and wife to Francis, eldest 
 son of Sir Richard Newport, of High Ercal, Shropshire. 
 On the breaking out of the civil wars, her husband 
 took up arms for the king, and she had the gratification 
 of finding his courage and conduct highly commended ; 
 but on the 29th of June, 1644, he had the misfortune 
 to be taken prisoner in the attempt to re-obtain Oswestry, 
 which the Earl of Denbigh had just carried. She her¬ 
 self, with the Lady d’Aubigny, and others, appears after¬ 
 wards to have fallen into the hands of the Parliament¬ 
 arians ; as a letter is extant from the noted Hugh 
 Peters to the Earl of Stamford, soliciting the release 
 of Lady Newport, for which great interest was obviously 
 employed. The Restoration brought her compensation 
 for her troubles; in 1675 she became Viscountess New¬ 
 port of Bradford ; and after the Revolution, by a similar 
 mark of favour to her husband from William and Mary, 
 Countess of Bradford, in 1694. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
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 XXI. 
 
 ANNE RUSSELL, afterwards MARCHIONESS 
 OF WORCESTER. 
 
 Born about A.n. 1577. Died, a.d. 1G39.- Q. Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 Arms; Argent , a Hon rampant gules, on a chief sable , 3 escallops of the first. 
 
 A very curious and carefully painted portrait of a child, 
 in a dress of scarlet and gold, and white laced frock and 
 curch, holding a coral and bells. She was the younger 
 daughter of John, Lord Russell, eldest son of Francis, 
 second earl of Bedford, and of Elizabeth Cooke, Lady 
 Hobby, under whose learned tuition her education was 
 perfected. Introduced at court, she became maid of 
 honour to Queen Elizabeth, who, in 1600, honoured her 
 marriage with her presence, and danced at the masque 
 which was given on the occasion, although then in her 
 sixty-seventh year. The nobleman with whom she mar¬ 
 ried, was Henry Somerset, Lord Herbert, son of Edward, 
 fourth earl of Worcester, by whose death, in 1627, she 
 became Marchioness of Worcester. The enthusiasm of 
 her husband in the royal cause—the munificent pecuniary 
 assistance which he lent to Charles I.—his heroic defence 
 of Ragland Castle — and the subsequent confiscation of 
 his estates under the Commonwealth, are events familiar 
 to every one conversant with the history of those troubled 
 times. Lady Worcester was, however, spared the grief of 
 these events, and the yet more cruel part of seeing her 
 husband sink under the confinement to which, in addi¬ 
 tion to these reverses, he was subjected by the Par¬ 
 liament; as she died in the year 1639. She was the 
 mother of nine sons and four daughters by this high- 
 spirited and unfortunate nobleman. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XXII. 
 
 MARGARET, COUNTESS OF CARLISLE. 
 
 Born a.d. 1618. Died a.d. 1676.- James I. to Charles II. 
 
 Arms; Argent , 8 escutcheons gules, for Hay ; impaled with those of Russell. 
 
 After VANDYCK. 
 
 The third daughter of Francis, fourth earl, and Katha¬ 
 rine, countess of Bedford, and wife of James Hay, 
 second earl of Carlisle. The child represented with her 
 is not her own daughter, for she had no family; but 
 her niece, Diana Russell, afterwards Lady Verney. 
 
 Like most of the ladies who lived during the civil 
 wars, Margaret, countess of Carlisle, had to experience 
 various turns of fortune. Her husband at first appeared 
 in arms for the king; but when her brother, William, 
 earl of Bedford, was treated by the court with that 
 disrespect which even Clarendon condemns, he aban¬ 
 doned the royal cause, and sent in his adherence to the 
 Parliament, April 17, 1645. After his death, in 1660, 
 Lady Carlisle married Robert Rich, earl of Warwick 
 and Holland; and being, a year afterwards, again left a 
 widow, she was a third time sought in marriage, by 
 Edward Montagu, earl of Manchester, so noted for his 
 constant opposition to the cause of Charles I., yet to 
 whose virtues, notwithstanding, the courtly Clarendon 
 pays unaffected homage. Lady Manchester survived 
 this nobleman nearly twelve years, being interred at 
 Chenies in 1676. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
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 XXIII. 
 
 SIR GREVILLE VERNEY, K.B. 
 
 Born a.d. 1648. Died a.d. 1668. - Charles I. to Charles II. 
 
 Arms ; Gules, 3 crosses recercelee, or, a chief vaire, ermine and sable, for Verney ; 
 impaled with those of Russell. 
 
 SIR PETER LELY. 
 
 The only son, by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, Viscount 
 Wenman, of Sir Greville Verney, of Compton Verney, 
 Warwickshire, and married, August 29, 1667, to Lady 
 Diana Russell, eldest daughter of William, fifth earl of 
 Bedford. He just lived to see the fruit of this union, in 
 the person of William, his son, and then, after but thir¬ 
 teen months of wedded life, expired in the arms of his 
 lady, who, in a Latin epitaph on his monument, pays 
 this tribute to his virtues :— 
 
 Quid tibi Regis amor, genus, et sine compare forma, 
 Conjugioque Domus profuit aucta tuo ? 
 
 Vere novo, primoque ereptus flore juventae, 
 
 Ceu rosa virgineo pollice messa, jaces. 
 
 Solamur merito vitae compendia! namque 
 Vita brevis nobis, quae tibi longa fuit. 
 
 Magna quidem fuerat majorum gloria, justa 
 Extulit hos aetas ; plus dedit Arrha tui ! # 
 
 * Ah! to thy consort what availed, dear youth, 
 
 Thy birth, thine increase, loyalty, or truth, 
 
 Or peerless form ? Like a sweet rose in spring 
 By virgin fingers culled, a fading thing 
 Thou li’est! Yet are we solaced by the shine, 
 
 The bright compendium of a life like thine :— 
 Though brief to us, to thee how full! how long ! 
 Whilst a just age extols thy sires in song. 
 
 Great was their fame ; but how much more the prize 
 Thine Arria gives, who yields thee to the skies ! 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 DIANA, LADY VERNEY. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1648-50. Died a.d. 1701. - Charles I. to William and Mary. 
 
 Arms; as in the preceding page, Verney impaled with Russell. 
 
 LELY. 
 
 The wife of the preceding gentleman. After his death 
 she entered into a second marriage, with William, Baron 
 Allington, of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, constable of 
 the Tower. Lady Russell addresses to her, under this 
 second title, several of her published letters; from which 
 her great affection for her sister-in-law T may be gathered, 
 and Lady Allington’s piety. Naturally resenting, with 
 the other members of her family, the judicial murder of 
 her brother, the Lord Russell, and confirmed by that 
 memorable sacrifice in her attachment to civil and reli¬ 
 gious liberty, she took an intense interest in all the 
 events that preceded and followed the Revolution,— 
 and was, in fact, so much of a political partisan, that 
 we find Dr. Fitzwilliam complaining to Lady Russell, 
 that she had charged with faction the bishops and others 
 like himself, who could not, or would not, take the new 
 oaths of allegiance. Dr. Manton, one of the most learned 
 and eminent preachers of his day, to whom she was a 
 generous benefactress, dedicated to her his published 
 sermon on the Cardinal Virtues. Lady Allington lived 
 to nearly the reign of Queen Anne, dying December 
 13th, 1701. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
 23 
 
 XXV. 
 
 WRIOTHESLEY, LORD RUSSELL, afterwards SECOND 
 DUKE OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born a.d. 1680. Died a.d. 1711- Charles IT. to Q. Anne. 
 
 Arms; Argent , a lion rampant gules , on a chief sable three escallops of the first. 
 
 KNELLER. 
 
 When a child, in the sixth year of his age; in a blue 
 Roman costume, with a green mantle. He was the only 
 son, by Rachel, Lady Vaughan, of the celebrated William, 
 Lord Russell, whose execution took place when he was 
 little more than three years old, and hence he was often 
 termed by his mother, “ a child of many tears and prayers.” 
 He was married at the age of fifteen, to Elizabeth, only 
 daughter and heiress of John Howland, Esq. at which 
 period of his life he is represented, with his bride, in a 
 painting that will follow.—(No. CLXXXVIII—IX.) 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 GIRL WITH A COCKATOO. 
 
 VERELST. 
 
 A finely painted portrait of a child, apparently of 
 noble birth, her left hand resting on a cockatoo. From 
 always having been a favourite picture with the pos¬ 
 sessors, there can be little doubt of its representing one 
 of the Russell family; and to none of these is it so likely 
 to apply as to Anne, sole daughter of Edward, fourth son 
 of William, earl of Bedford, by his wife Frances, daughter 
 of Sir Robert Williams, of Penrhyn. She was snatched 
 from the eyes of her admiring parents at the age of thir¬ 
 teen, dying on the Gth of March, 1702. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 ARNOLD JOORST VAN KEPPEL, FIRST EARL OF 
 ALBEMARLE. 
 
 Born a.d. 1670. Died, a.d. 1718.- Charles II. to George I. 
 
 Arms; Gules , three escallops argent , for Keppel; impaled with Or, a lion rampant, 
 gules , debruised by a label of three points, azure, for Vander Dttin of St. 
 Gratemoer. 
 
 KNELLER. 
 
 Son of Asewolt van Keppel, of the Voorst; a family 
 which ranked amongst the most eminent of Gueldres,— 
 by Reineza-Anna-Gertruyde, daughter of Johan van 
 Lintello-tot de Mars. From being page to William III. 
 when Prince of Orange, he came, notwithstanding the 
 opposition of the Earl of Portland, to be one of his chief 
 favourites. “ Being,” says Burnet, “ a cheerful young 
 man, who had the skill of pleasing, with all the arts of 
 a court, and civility to all, he was now (in 1695) made 
 Earl of Albemarle, and soon after knight of the garter, 
 and by a quick and unaccountable progress, he seemed 
 to have engrossed the royal favour so entirely, that he 
 disposed of every thing that was in the king’s power.” 
 
 After the death of his royal benefactor, in 1702, he 
 retired to his native country, and being shortly declared 
 general of the Dutch forces, he served with great repu¬ 
 tation in several of the Duke of Marlborough’s subsequent 
 campaigns. He was at the great battles of Ramilies, 
 Oudenard, and Denain, in the last of which he was taken 
 prisoner. On the demise of Queen Anne, in 1714, he 
 was sent by the states-general to congratulate her suc¬ 
 cessor on his happy accession to the crown of England, 
 which event he survived about four years. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
 25 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 LADY ANNE CARR, afterwards COUNTESS OF 
 BEDFORD. 
 
 In her early youth. The same as Nos. LXXI. and CXIX. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 ISABELLA-GERTRUDE-QUERINA, COUNTESS 
 OF ALBEMARLE. 
 
 Born a.d.-- Died a.d. 1741. - James II. to George II. 
 
 Arms ; as borne by No. XXVII., Keppel impaled with Vander Duin 
 of St. Gravemoer. 
 
 KNELLER. 
 
 The daughter of Adam Vander Duin, lord of St. Grave- 
 moer, general of the forces of the States-general, and wife 
 of Arnold, first earl of Albemarle, whom she married in 
 the year 1701. But little can be gathered of her per¬ 
 sonal history from the pages of contemporary writers, 
 although it is obvious that she must have eminently par¬ 
 ticipated in the influence which her husband exercised at 
 court. Lord Chesterfield, in a letter from the Hague to 
 Mrs. Howard, afterwards Countess of Suffolk, in 1729, 
 thanks her for a ring which Lady Albemarle had brought 
 him, by the yacht which was to take back George the 
 First to England : and in the autumn of the previous 
 year, he writes, — “ Lady Albemarle and Lady Sophia 
 (her daughter) are expected here in about six weeks ; at 
 which time, too. Lady Cadogan and the Duchess of Rich¬ 
 mond will return from Spa; so that we shall have a sort 
 of English assembly, which I believe will be at least as 
 lively as the Dutch ones.” She survived her husband 
 twenty-three years, dying at the Hague, Dec. 3, 1741. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 WILLIAM-ANNE KEPPEL, SECOND EARL OF 
 ALBEMARLE. 
 
 Born a.d. 1702. Died a.d. 1754- Q. Anne to George II. 
 
 Arms; Keppel, as before, impaled with Lennox ; viz. Quarterly; 1 and 4, France 
 and England, quarterly; 2, Scotland; 3, Ireland, for K. Charles II.,— a bor- 
 dure compony, argent and gules, the first verdoy of roses of the second, barbed and 
 seeded proper ; over all, on an escutcheon gules, 3 oval buckles, or, for Aubignt. 
 
 In his military uniform. He was the only son of the 
 preceding earl and countess, and derived the second of 
 his names from Queen Anne, who stood godmother to 
 him. After enjoying one or two offices at the court of 
 George the First, he devoted himself to a military life, 
 served with great bravery at Dettingen, was wounded at 
 the battle of Fontenoy, commanded the right wing at 
 Culloden, and succeeded the Duke of Cumberland in 
 Scotland, as general-in-chief of the king’s forces there. 
 After the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, he was appointed 
 ambassador and plenipotentiary to the French court, 
 where by his discussions with the French ministers, on 
 the various important points still under dispute, and the 
 magnificence of his mode of life, he very ably sustained 
 the dignity of the British crown and nation. He died 
 very suddenly at Paris, in his coach, December 22, 1754. 
 We learn from Lord Orford, that his figure was genteel, 
 and his manners noble and agreeable, which is about the 
 only merit the political prejudices of that amusing satirist 
 are disposed to accord to him. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
 27 
 
 XXXI. 
 
 ANNE, COUNTESS OF ALBEMARLE. 
 
 Born a.d. 1703. Died a.d. 1789. - Q. Anne to George III. 
 
 Arms, as in the preceding page. 
 
 Daughter of Charles, first duke of Richmond, Lennox, 
 and Aubigny, by Anne, daughter of Francis, lord Bru- 
 denel, and married to the preceding nobleman, at Caver- 
 sham, a seat of the Earl of Cadogan, February 21, 
 1722—3. She was one of the ladies of the bed-chamber 
 to Caroline, queen of George II., and was mother of a 
 numerous offspring, amongst whom were the celebrated 
 Admiral Keppel, and the Marchioness of Tavistock. 
 From the want of published memoirs of the time when 
 she was in the greatest vogue, we learn but few par¬ 
 ticulars of her. It is said, that when her eldest son. 
 Viscount Bury, waited on her, in 1754, to acquaint her 
 with her husband’s death, at Paris, she exclaimed, “ You 
 need not tell me that your father is no more, for I dreamt 
 it last night!” 
 
 She had the misfortune to survive all her children, 
 and died at her house in New Street, Spring Gardens, at 
 the advanced age of eighty-six, retaining her character¬ 
 istic intelligence and vivacity to the last. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XXXII. 
 
 JOHN, SECOND BARON, afterwards EARL GOWER. 
 
 Born a.d._ _ Died a.d. 1754.- William and Mary to George II. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly; 1 and 4, barryof 8, argent and gules, over all, a cross patonce, sable, 
 for Gower ; 2 and 3, azure , 3 laurel-leaves erect, or, for Levison ; impaled with 
 Argent , semee of cinquefoils, gules , a lion rampant, sable, for Pierrefont. 
 
 RAMSAY. 
 
 In liis coronation robes. He was the son of Sir John 
 Levison Gower, Bart, of Trentham, and of Lady Cathe¬ 
 rine, eldest daughter of John, third duke of Rutland. 
 He was made Lord Privy Seal in 1742-3, and again, on 
 the coalition, in 1744, an office which he retained until 
 his death. He was created an earl in 1746, a dignity 
 which, as he had been educated a stanch Jacobite, and, 
 on his entering the king’s service, was considered one 
 of the chief patrons of that party — may have been 
 thought more particularly due to his deserts, from the 
 loyalty which he displayed, on the breaking out of the 
 rebellion of 1745, when he raised a regiment of foot for 
 the king. 
 
 Lord Orford, who was angry with him for having 
 joined the Pelhams, the supplanters of his father’s power, 
 says of him, that he was a “ comely man of form, 
 but had never had any sense; ” that “ he had a large 
 fortune, and commanded boroughs:” but it would be 
 most unfortunate if the posthumous reputation of indi¬ 
 viduals with whom he was at feud, should rest upon the 
 contemptuous dash of a pen so tinctured with party bit¬ 
 terness as his. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
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 XXXIII. 
 
 ANNE, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born a.d.-- Died a.d. 1763. -Q. Anne to George III. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , a lion rampant, gules , on a chief sable 3 escallops of the field, for 
 Russell ; and, as an heiress, argent , a lion rampant, gules , between three pheons, 
 sable, for Egerton. 
 
 ISAAC WHOOD. 
 
 In the robes which she wore at the coronation of Queen 
 Anne. She was the only daughter of Scroop Egerton, 
 fourth earl and first duke of Bridgewater, by Lady Eliza¬ 
 beth Churchill, his first wife, and married, in April, 1725, 
 Wriothesley, third duke of Bedford. She was thus grand¬ 
 daughter to Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, to whom, 
 by way of compliment. Sir Robert Walpole,—when he 
 first revived the Order of the Bath, — offered the red 
 riband for the Duke of Bedford. She, whose hostility to 
 Walpole is well known, answered haughtily, that he should 
 take nothing but the Garter. “ Madam!” said Sir Robert 
 coolly, designing that the one order should be a step to 
 the other; “ they who take the Bath will the sooner have 
 the Garter.” The next year, having been installed knight 
 of the Bath, he himself took the Garter; but we do not 
 find that the duchess’s reply was ever forgotten, as no 
 Garter was conferred upon the Duke of Bedford. 
 
 Anne, duchess of Bedford, was much admired in her 
 day for her beauty and elegance of figure: her husband, 
 the duke, has preserved no fewer than six portraits of 
 her. After his death, she became Countess of Jersey, 
 by marriage with William, third earl of that title. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 CHARLES SPENCER, SECOND DUKE OF 
 MARLBOROUGH. 
 
 Born a.d. -- Died. a.d. 1758.- William and Mary to George II. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly; 1 and 4, quarterly, argent and gules ; in the 2 and 3, a fret or; 
 over all, on a bend sable , 3 escallops of the first , for Spencer. Second and 
 third, sable, a lion rampant, argent; on a canton of the last , a cross, gules, for 
 Churchill : on a scutcheon of pretence, Party per bend sinister, ermine and 
 erminois , a lion rampant, or, for Trevor. 
 
 “ WHOOD, F. 1735.” 
 
 In his coronation robes. He was the third, but eldest 
 surviving son of Charles, third earl of Sunderland, secre¬ 
 tary of state to Queen Anne—by his second lady, Anne, 
 daughter and co-heir of John, duke of Marlborough, 
 whose title devolved upon him in 1733. A few years 
 after, he entered the army, and behaved with great 
 credit at the battle of Dettingen, where he commanded 
 the foot-guards. He was less successful in the descent 
 on St. Malo’s, in 1758: but lost no credit at court, being 
 next appointed commander-in-chief of the British forces 
 in Germany, which post he enjoyed but a few months, 
 dying at Munster, in the autumn of the same year. 
 Horace Walpole, to whose encomiums we may safely 
 attach much more truth than to his censures, says of 
 him, that “ he was modest and diffident, had good sense, 
 and infinite generosity.” To humour his grandmother, 
 Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, he was at first in oppo¬ 
 sition, but was detached from that party by Mr. Fox, 
 afterwards Lord Holland, whose strong attachment to 
 him is indicated in many of his private letters.* 
 
 * This act of Mr. Fox greatly excited the anger of the duchess ; and 
 on one occasion she said, with great fury, and some humour, pointing to 
 him — “ There goes the Fox that has stolen my goose ! ” 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
 31 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF GRAFTON. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1742. Died a.d. -.- George II. to George III. 
 
 Arms ; those of K. Charles II. with a baton sinister, compony argent and azure , for 
 Fitzroy ; impaled with, or, 3 piles sable , a canton ermine , for Wrottesley. 
 
 GAINSBOROUGH. 
 
 A younger daughter, by Mary, daughter of John, second 
 earl Gower, of the Rev. Sir Richard Wrottesley, Bart., 
 dean of Windsor, &c. of Wrottesley Hall, Staffordshire,— 
 a gentleman descended from a family which furnished 
 from its ranks of warriors one of the earliest knights of 
 the Garter, the antiquity of which is clearly deduced from 
 the reign of Henry I. but which is supposed to have 
 occupied the manorial seat from the time of the Conquest. 
 She became, in 1769, the second wife of Augustus Henry, 
 third duke of Grafton, who, from 1765, when he was 
 appointed secretary of state, to 1775, when he resigned 
 the privy seal, occupied so prominent a place in the public 
 and party annals of that stormy period. She was niece 
 also to Gertrude, duchess of Bedford, and, as appears by 
 her correspondence, was herself no uninterested or in¬ 
 active observer of events in the political society and 
 sphere in which she figured. 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 CHARLES SPENCER, FOURTH EARL OF 
 SUNDERLAND. 
 
 The same as No. XXXIV. but painted in 1731, —probably 
 by Philips, — before he became Duke of Marlborough. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 ANNE, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 WHOOD. 
 
 In an oval, apparelled in white, and blue mantle lined 
 with ermine. The same as No. XXXIII. 
 
 XXXVIII. 
 
 IION. MISS WROTTESLEY. 
 
 Born a.d. 1740. Died, a.d. - . George II. to George III. 
 
 Arms; In lozenge, Or, 3 piles sable, a canton ermine. 
 
 GAINSBOROUGH. 
 
 Mary, the elder sister of Elizabeth, duchess of Grafton 
 (No. XXXV.), and maid of honour to Queen Charlotte, the 
 wife of George the Third. 
 
 XXXIX. 
 
 PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN UNKNOWN. 
 
 “ R. PHILIPS, F. 1731. 
 
RIGHT HAND. 
 
 33 
 
 XL. 
 
 SARAH, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH. 
 
 Born a.d. 1GG0. Died a.d. 1744 - Charles 11. to George II. 
 
 Anns; Sable, a lion rampant argent , on a canton of the last a cross gules , for 
 Churchill ; and, as an heiress, Argent , on a fesse, gules , three bezants, for 
 Jennings. 
 
 JERVAS. 
 
 Daughter and co-heiress of Richard Jennings, Esq. of 
 Sandridge, Hertfordshire, by Frances, daughter of Sir 
 GifFard Thornhurst, Bart., of Agnes Court, in Kent, and 
 married to the celebrated John, first duke of Marlbo¬ 
 rough, in 1678. She was too considerable a personage 
 in her day to require many comments here. Horace 
 Walpole says piquantly of her — “ that her own beauty, 
 the superior talents of her husband in war, and the caprice 
 of a feeble princess, raised her to the highest pitch of 
 power; and the prodigious wealth bequeathed to her by 
 her lord, and accumulated in concert with her, gave her 
 weight in a free country. Her beauty, even when she 
 first attracted admiration in the saloons of Charles II., 
 was of the scornful and imperious kind, and her features 
 and air, as they are depicted in her portraits, announce 
 nothing which her temper did not confirm. Both toge¬ 
 ther, her beauty and temper, enslaved her heroic lord. 
 One of her principal charms, we are told, was a prodi¬ 
 gious abundance of fine hair, and that one day, at her 
 toilet, in anger with him, she cut off those enthralling 
 tresses, and flung them in his face.” Her caprice, self-will, 
 and haughtiness, those “ plagues of her own heart,” pur¬ 
 sued her long after her estrangement from the court in 
 
 F 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 which she had figured as a favourite; and she was, to near 
 the close of life, involved in quarrels with one or other 
 of her connexions. But she was as warm in her attach¬ 
 ments, whilst they lasted, as inordinate in her aversions; 
 and her great faults were frequently redeemed by good 
 and generous actions. 
 
 It must also, in justice, be acknowledged of her, that 
 old age soothed down much of her asperity and resent¬ 
 ment to those by whom she thought herself aggrieved, and 
 that whilst increasingly sensible of the imperfections and 
 follies of our common nature, and the vanity of most 
 human pursuits, her mind became imbued, as horn a 
 better world, with a spirit of resigned philosophy, which 
 enabled her to bear the thronging ills and disappointments 
 of that dark and joyless season with equanimity and cheer¬ 
 fulness. “ I am every day,” she writes in 1734, to Diana, 
 duchess of Bedford, to whom she constantly expressed 
 herself in terms of the utmost tenderness,—“ I am every 
 day more and more convinced, that as there is very little 
 that is good or pleasant in this world, there can be no 
 reason for one to apprehend death, or think it an evil 
 that which must happen some time or other to every body 
 that is born, and when it does come, puts an end to all one s 
 trouble. And hence I think, that if I could walk out of 
 life without the pain one suffers in dying, I could do it to¬ 
 morrow. For in this life I am satisfied there is nothing 
 to be done but to make the best of what cannot be helped, 
 to act with reason one’s-self, and with a good conscience; 
 and though that will not give us all the joys some people 
 wish for, yet it will make one very quiet. 
 
 She survived the expression of these sentiments ten 
 years, dying in 1744, at the age of eighty-four. 
 
LEFT HAND-RETURNING. 
 
 XL I. 
 
 \ 
 
 ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born a.d. 1682. Died a.d. 1724 - James II. to George I. 
 
 Arms; Russell, bearing, as an heiress, Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent , 2 bars sable , in 
 chief 3 lions rampant of the last, for Howland; 2 and 3, Gules , a chevron 
 engrailed, ermine , between 3 falcons close, argent , for Child. 
 
 WISSING. 
 
 The only daughter of John Howland, Esq. of Streatham, 
 in Surrey, by Elizabeth, sole daughter and heiress of Sir 
 Josiah Child, by his first lady,—and Baroness Howland by 
 creation immediately after her marriage. May 23d, 1695, 
 with Wriothesley, (the only son of the good and great 
 Lord Russell,) afterwards second duke of Bedford. In 
 the marriage which Lady Russell thus contracted for him, 
 it is probable that she saw, with her usual perspicacity, 
 through the veil of youth, the germ of those meek and 
 winning qualities which were most calculated to promote 
 his happiness in wedded life. Elizabeth, duchess of Bed¬ 
 ford, appears to have possessed no very shining talents 
 or accomplishments; but, with great sobriety of sense 
 and temper, to have been well fitted, by her virtues, to 
 prolong the attachment first excited by her youth and 
 beauty. She was mother of the two succeeding Dukes 
 of Bedford, of Rachel, duchess of Bridgewater, and Eliza¬ 
 beth, countess of Essex. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XLII. 
 
 CHARLES SPENCER, THIRD EARL OF SUNDERLAND. 
 
 Born a.d.- Died a.d. 1722. - William III. to George II. 
 
 Arms; Spencer, as before ; bearing, on a scutcheon of pretence, Quarterly, 1 and 4, 
 Churchill ; 2 and 3, Jennings. 
 
 WHOOD. 
 
 In his robes of the Garter. He was the only son of 
 Robert, second earl, by lady Anne Digby, grand-daughter 
 of Francis, fourth earl of Bedford. This nobleman, who 
 occupied a place of such distinction amongst the states¬ 
 men and ministers of Anne and George I. was, if we are 
 to believe Dean Swift, highly republican when a com¬ 
 moner, vowing that he would never be called other than 
 Charles Spencer, and hoping to see the day when there 
 should not be a peer in England. After executing several 
 embassies, being honoured with, and rudely deprived of, 
 the secretary’s seals, and shining as the great leader of 
 the Whigs, during the capricious reign of Queen Anne, 
 he was appointed successively Privy Seal to George the 
 First, Secretary of State, and President of the Council; 
 and continued at the head of affairs till 1721, when he 
 resigned his employments. He married for his second 
 wife, Anne, second daughter of the Duchess of Marlbo¬ 
 rough. She also was a great politician; and having, like 
 her mother, a most beautiful head of hair, she used, 
 whilst combing it at her toilet, to receive men whose votes 
 or interest she wished to influence. 
 
LEFT HAND. 
 
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 XLIII. 
 
 RACHEL, COUNTESS OF SOUTHAMPTON. 
 
 / 
 
 Born a.d.- Died about a.d. 1G40 _ James I. to Charles I. 
 
 Arms; Azure, a cross or, between 4 falcons close, argent, for Wriothesley ; 
 impaled with Massey of Rodvigny; viz. Quarterly; 1 and 4, Gules, a chief, 
 chequy, argent and azure; 2 and 3, argent , three mallets, gules; over all, an 
 escocheon, argent, thereon a fesse, gules, 3 martlets in chief, sable, on a canton 
 of the third , a battle-axe erect, of the field. 
 
 After VANDYCK. 
 
 Daughter of Daniel de Massey, baron of Rouvigny in 
 France, and sister to the Marquis de Rouvigny, ambas¬ 
 sador from France to Charles II., in 1674, By her 
 second marriage with Thomas Wriothesley, fourth earl 
 of Southampton, about the year 1634, she became the 
 mother of Rachel, lady Russell. In that year she was 
 first introduced at the court of Charles the First. “ My 
 lady of Southampton,” writes Lord Conway to the Earl 
 of Strafford, “ is come to town: she is very merry and 
 very discreet, very handsome and very religious; she 
 was called in France ‘ La belle et vertueuse Huguenotte .’ ” 
 And again: “ The countess has been twice or thrice 
 at court, and gains upon the spectators, though at her 
 first visit to the queen she was somewhat discomposed, 
 which I could not blame her for, such staring there was 
 upon her. She is a lady of a goodly personage, some¬ 
 what taller than ordinarily French women are,— excellent 
 eyes, black hair, and of a most sweet and affable nature.” 
 She could not have survived her marriage more than five 
 or six years, as she died, we are told, during the infancy 
 of her daughter Rachel, who was born in 1636. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XLIV. 
 
 KING CHARLES THE FIRST. 
 
 Born a.d. 1600. Died a.d. 1648. 
 
 Arms ; Quarterly, I and 4, France and England quarterly; 2, Scotland; 
 
 3, Ireland. 
 
 KNELLER, after VANDYCK. 
 
 Alternately reproached as a tyrant and venerated as a 
 martyr, according as indignation conceived from his prin¬ 
 ciples of government, or as sympathy for his personal 
 misfortunes, and his unconquerable perseverance in en¬ 
 forcing his monarchical claims, prevail,— it may justly be 
 said of Charles to the present hour, in reference to the 
 writings of his disputants, that “ Repose denies all requiem 
 to his name And thus it must remain, so long as political 
 opinion continues to be divided on the superior adherence 
 which should be manifested to popular or kingly rights,, 
 when the two principles are brought into conflict by 
 evil counsellors or long misgovernment. That Charles’s 
 mind was early imbued with the false and monstrous 
 dogma of “ many made for one,” was his misfortune 
 rather than his fault; but it was a most momentous 
 one : for he could never shake the maxim from his mind, 
 even when he had attained to that ripeness of judgment 
 and discretion, which, if he could then have resolved to 
 surround himself with other counsellers, must almost 
 necessarily have warned him off the rocks on which he 
 split. 
 
LEFT HAND. 
 
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 XLV. 
 
 RICHARD WESTON, FIRST EARL OF PORTLAND. 
 
 Born a.d. 1 577 - Died a.d. 1634. - Q. Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 Arms ; Or , an eagle displayed, sable , for Weston ; and, as an heiress, his wife’s 
 arms, per pale argent and gules, for Walgrave. 
 
 MYTENS. 
 
 Holding his treasurer’s staff. He was the son of Sir 
 Jerome Weston, of Roxwell, Essex, by Mary, daughter 
 and coheir of Antony Cave; and married for his second 
 wife, Frances, daughter of Nicholas Walgrave, of Boreley, 
 Essex. After being employed in some embassies abroad, 
 he was made privy counsellor, chancellor of the exche¬ 
 quer, and finally high treasurer to Charles the First. 
 He took more pains, however, says Clarendon, in in¬ 
 quiring into other men’s offices than in the discharge of 
 his own; and not so much joy in what he had, as 
 trouble and agony for what he had not. Being of an 
 imperious nature, he was nothing wary in disobliging and 
 provoking other men; but having done this, was of so 
 feminine a temper, as to be always in a terrible appre¬ 
 hension of them; so that he quickly lost the character 
 of a bold and magnanimous man, and fell under the re¬ 
 proach of being one of big looks, and of a mean and 
 abject spirit. 
 
 XLVI. 
 
 KATHARINE, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 CORNELIUS JANSEN. 
 
 The same as No. XL, but at a much later period of life. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XLVII. 
 
 ANNE, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE, DORSET, AND 
 MONTGOMERY. 
 
 Born a.d. 1589. Died a.d. 1675- Q. Elizabeth to Charles II. 
 
 Arms; Party per pale, Azure and gules, 3 lions rampant, argent , for Herbert, 
 earl of Pembroke; and, as an heiress, chequy or and azure , a fesse gules , for 
 Clifford. 
 
 GILBERT JACK. 
 
 The only daughter of George, third earl of Cumberland, 
 and of Lady Margaret Russell, youngest daughter of 
 Francis, second earl of Bedford. Her spirit under judi¬ 
 cial oppression, the baronial state in which she lived, 
 and the deeds of benevolence in which she delighted, 
 have long endeared to the reader of biography the name 
 of the Countess of Pembroke. The present portrait 
 was painted in that same sixty-third year of her age 
 of which she speaks in her “ Memorialswhere, after 
 describing her own beauty in youth, her “ black eyes 
 like her father’s,” her “ sprightly aspect like her mother’s,” 
 her “ long brown hair that reached her feet,” the “ dimple 
 on her chin,” and the “ exquisite proportions of her 
 figure,” she moralises on the change of time and tide, 
 the fragility of beauty, and the close of life. 
 
 Her first marriage with Richard, earl of Dorset, was 
 not happy; her second, with Philip, earl of Pembroke, 
 was still less so ; and it was not till after his death, in 
 1649, that she was at full liberty to resign herself to the 
 luxury of doing good. From that period she resided at 
 one or other of her many castles in the North, and re¬ 
 stored in them the good old times of baronial hospitality, 
 seasoned with the serious exercise of Christian virtue. 
 
LEFT HAND. 
 
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 XLVIII. 
 
 REV. JOHN THORNTON. 
 
 Flourished a.d. 1648-1702 - Charles I. to Q. Anne. 
 
 Arms; Sable , a chevron, or. 
 
 WALKER. 
 
 It is uncertain at which University he received his edu¬ 
 cation/ or of what precise family he sprang; but he is 
 described by Bishop Rennet as having lived and died a 
 Nonconformist. “ He was chaplain/’ writes the bishop, “ to 
 the Earl, afterwards Duke of Bedford — to which family, 
 from its first rising to be noble, it has been natural to 
 have such men in reputation, protecting them from eccle¬ 
 siastical storms, and favouring them in their ministry. 
 This was some years before the restoration of King 
 Charles II., and he continued in that station during the 
 good old duke’s life, and for some time after, he lived 
 with the Lady Rachel Russell.” 
 
 Mr. Thornton was tutor also to the celebrated Wil¬ 
 liam, Lord Russell, with whom he maintained a frequent 
 correspondence during his travels in Germany and Italy, 
 in whose after-career he took a lively interest, and from 
 his letters to whom it is easy to see how strenuously he 
 laboured to inculcate those principles of moral and reli¬ 
 gious duty which afterwards became the “ stock of such 
 heroic fruit.” 
 
 * But most probably at Cambridge, as he is not mentioned by 
 Wood in his “ Athense Oxonienses.”" 
 
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42 
 
 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 XLIX. 
 
 PENELOPE, LADY SPENCER. 
 
 Born a.d. - Died a.d. 1667* - James I. to Charles I. 
 
 Arms ; Spencer, as before, impaled with azure , a cross, or, between four falcons 
 close, argent, for Wriothesley. 
 
 JANSEN. 
 
 The eldest daughter of Henry Wriothesley, third earl of 
 Southampton, by Elizabeth, daughter of John Vernon, 
 Esq. of Hodnet, Derbyshire, and wife of William, second 
 lord Spencer of Wormleighton. She was one of the ladies 
 who attended the funeral procession of Queen Anne of 
 Denmark, in 1619, and was mother to Henry, third lord 
 Spencer, for whom she contracted a marriage alliance 
 with the Lady Dorothy Sidney, daughter of Robert, earl of 
 Leicester, the beauty whom Waller celebrated under the 
 name of Saccharissa; and their union took place in the 
 summer of 1639, at Penshurst, the beeches of which had 
 been so often vocal in her praise. In 1636 Lady Spencer 
 lost her husband, whom she survived in widowhood for 
 thirty-one years, “ leaving a very shining character for 
 her constancy of mind, prudent conduct, unaffected piety, 
 and love to her deceased lord.” To his memory she 
 erected the stately monument of black and white marble, 
 which is to be seen in Brington Church, Northampton¬ 
 shire, surmounted by the figures of a baron and baroness, 
 in their robes of state, with close-clasped hands, 
 
 “ In meek devotion on their bosoms laid, 
 
 As though for peace to God their parting, spirits prayed.” 
 
LEFT HAND. 
 
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 L. 
 
 REV. BRUNO RYVES, D.D. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1596. Died a.d. 1677*-Q- Elizabeth to Charles II. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , on a bend coticed, sable, three mascles, ermine. 
 
 WALKER. 
 
 Of a family settled at Damory Court, near Blandford, 
 in Dorsetshire. Educated at New College, Oxford, he 
 became a noted preacher, was made vicar of Stanwell 
 in Middlesex, rector of St. Martin’s in the Vintry, 
 London, and chaplain to King Charles I. in 1628. On 
 the first breaking out of the Civil Wars, he was seques¬ 
 tered from his livings, in consequence of his devotion to 
 the royal cause; but was so fortunate as to find a gene¬ 
 rous protector in Lord Arundel of Wardour, who sup¬ 
 ported him for many years at Shaston, until the Resto¬ 
 ration, in 1660, brought him fresh distinction and prefer¬ 
 ment. He was then appointed chaplain to the king, 
 and installed Dean of Windsor, made secretary to the 
 order of the Garter, and rector of Haseley in Oxford¬ 
 shire. What, however, is most worthy of remark is 
 this, that he was the author of the first English news¬ 
 paper that was ever published. It was entitled “ Mer- 
 curius Rusticus,” and, commencing August 22, 1642, 
 gives an account of the early calamities attendant on 
 the Civil Wars. Fie assisted the learned Walton also 
 in the publication of his Polyglot. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 LI. 
 
 ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. 
 
 Born a.d. 1596. Died a.d. 1GG1_ Queen Elizabeth to Charles II . 
 
 Arms; Quarterly; 1 and 4, Sable , a lion rampant, or, crowned gules, for the Pala¬ 
 tinate ; 2 and 3, Bendy, lozengy, argent and azure, for Bavaria ; over all, 
 an inescotcheon, gules, charged with a mound and cross, or, for the Electorate ; 
 —impaling, Quarterly, 1 and 4, France and England quarterly; 2, Scot¬ 
 land; 3, Ireland. 
 
 GERARD HONTHORST. 
 
 The eldest daughter of James the First and Anne of 
 Denmark, and wife of Frederick the Fifth, Count Palatine 
 of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, and afterwards King of 
 Bohemia. The eulogiums constantly passed upon this 
 popular princess by the annalists of her time, as well 
 as by such of the English nobility as best knew her, 
 bespeak the deep sympathy and enthusiasm excited by 
 the cause for which she struggled, and their admiration for 
 those princely accomplishments, magnanimity, and hero¬ 
 ism, which won for her, on all hands, the title of “ The 
 Queen of Hearts.” “ Yet neither could that heroism,” 
 says Lord Orford, “ those graces, nor those distresses, 
 which attracted the homage of the Paladins of that age, 
 infuse any spirit into the timorous and negotiating dupe, 
 her father, who cherished royalty too much to forgive 
 his son-in-law for ravishing a crown from another mo¬ 
 narch, though he could not keep it. She lived to see the 
 restoration of her nephew, though little suspecting that 
 her youngest daughter would be named successor to her 
 niece Anne, and be appointed to wear the crown of the 
 twice-dethroned Stuarts!” 
 
LEFT HAND. 
 
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 LII. 
 
 PORTRAIT OF A NOBLEMAN UNKNOWN. 
 
 MARK GARRARD. 
 
 A curious whole-length of a nobleman in his robes of the 
 Garter, with red and bullion-striped trunk breeches and 
 hose, ruby earrings and ruff of pointed lace. He holds in 
 his left-hand a chamberlain or treasurer’s wand of office, 
 and his hat, with large red feathers, lies beside him. 
 
 The picture has been sometimes called Robert Carr, 
 earl of Somerset; but this is certainly a misnomer, as 
 Wilson, in his “ Memoirs,” declares that this personage 
 " w r as rather well-compacted than tall,” and that “ the hair 
 of his head was flaxen ,” which is here black. We should 
 rather suppose it to represent Thomas Howard, earl of 
 Suffolk, lord treasurer, and father of Frances, countess 
 of Somerset: or otherwise George, Lord Hunsdon, lord 
 chamberlain. They are the only knights of the Garter 
 who were at the same time chamberlains or treasurers 
 in the reign of James the First, when the picture was 
 obviously painted. The family connexions render it 
 most probable that, of the two, it was designed for the 
 former, as portraits of both his daughters are found in 
 this collection, and he was grandfather, by the maternal 
 side, to Anne, Countess of Bedford. 
 
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 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 LIII. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL OF CHIPPENHAM, Bart. 
 
 Born a.d. _ Died a.d. 1663_ Q. Elizabeth to James I. 
 
 Arms; Russell of Chippenham,— argent, alion rampant, gules, on a chief, sable , 
 3 roses, of the field; impaled with Quarterly, 1 and 4, argent , a saltire gules , 
 for Gerard ; 2 and 3, argent, 3 bars sable, in chief, as many trevets of the last, 
 for Revett. 
 
 MARK GARRARD. 
 
 He is supposed to have been descended from Sir 
 Thomas Russell, a brother of John, first earl of Bed¬ 
 ford. By his marriage with his first lady, Elizabeth, 
 grand-daughter of Sir Gilbert Gerard, Master of the 
 Rolls, he acquired the manor of Chippenham, in Cam¬ 
 bridgeshire. He was made treasurer of the navy by 
 King Charles the First, and was created a baronet in 
 1628. In the fulfilment of the duties of his office, he 
 gave great satisfaction to his sovereign: but during the 
 exhausted state of the exchequer, after the Rochelle ex¬ 
 pedition, and during the popular discontents against the 
 Duke of Buckingham, he was frequently exposed to great 
 danger, from the numerous bodies of seamen who used 
 to surround his office at Whitehall, with riotous clamours 
 for the pay that was their due. He was visited during 
 the Civil Wars, at Chippenham, by Charles the First, 
 although his son. Sir Francis, was a fast friend to the 
 Parliament, and a double alliance had been formed 
 between his family and Cromwell’s. Whilst theie, the 
 monarch engaged in the amusement of bowling, at that 
 time a favourite diversion with the cavaliers. 
 
LEFT HAND. 
 
 47 
 
 LIV. 
 
 ELIZABETH, LADY RUSSELL OF CHIPPENHAM. 
 
 Flourished a.d. 1580-1623 _ Q. Elizabeth to James I. 
 
 Arms, as in the preceding page, 
 
 MARK GARRARD. 
 
 Painted in 1623. She was the first of the three wives 
 of the preceding baronet, and daughter of Thomas, 
 Baron Gerard, of Gerard’s-Bromley, Staffordshire, by 
 Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Revett, the 
 possessor of Chippenham Manor, in the year 1582. 
 
 LV. 
 
 JOHN, SECOND LORD HARRINGTON. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1592. Died a.d. 1614 - Q. Elizabeth to James I. 
 
 Arms ; Sable, a fret, argent. 
 
 The only son of John, first lord Harrington, by Anne, 
 daughter and sole heiress of Robert Kelway, Esq. sur¬ 
 veyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries. He was 
 bi other also to Lucy, countess of Bedford. He had been 
 in early life the chief companion in study and knightly 
 exercises of that favourite of the nation. Prince Henry; 
 and he returned in 1609 from his travels in France, 
 
48 
 
 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 Germany, and Italy,* endowed with virtues, accomplish¬ 
 ments, and a piety so eminent, as to lead his biographer 
 in the “ Her^ologia,” to state, that it would require a?i 
 angel’s pen appropriately to commemorate them. The 
 annalist of the first fourteen years of King James’s reign 
 also characterises him as “ the hopefullest gentleman of 
 his times, more fit for employment than a private life, 
 and for a statesman than a soldier.” Almost as soon as 
 he was of age, he was appointed Governor of Guernsey 
 and Jersey, and was making preparations for his depar¬ 
 ture to those islands, when he was seized at Kew with a 
 complaint which at once extinguished the high hopes that 
 his country had conceived of him. After twelve days’ 
 sickness, he made his will, called his relatives around 
 him, and sighing out, “ O, the bliss before me ! when, 
 O God, shall I be with thee ?” peacefully expired, on the 
 27th of February, 1614. 
 
 * In that year we find the Earl of Salisbury thus writing to his son, 
 at college : — “ I will plainly tell you, that if I find not your Latin and 
 logic be your study more than your tennis, I shall think you will come 
 home a young master fit only for a horse-race or a hunting-match, which 
 would much grieve me. I find every week in the prince’s hand a letter 
 from Sir John Harrington, full of news of the place where he is, the 
 countries through which he passeth, and all occurrents ; which is an 
 argument that he doth well read and observe such things as are remark¬ 
 able.”— Birch MSS. 
 
LEFT HAND. 
 
 49 
 
 LVI. 
 
 WILLIAM RUSSELL, BARON THORNHAUGH. 
 The same as No. VII. 
 
 LVII. 
 
 EDWARD CLINTON, FIRST EARL OF LINCOLN. 
 
 Born a.d. 1513. Died a.d. 1584. - Henry VIII. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms; Argent , 0 cross-crosslets fitchee, sable , on a chief azure, 2 mullets or, pierced 
 gules, for Clinton ; impaled with Argent, a saltire, gules, for Fitzgerald of 
 Kildare. 
 
 CORNELIUS KETEL. 
 
 Painted in 1568, at the age of fifty-five. He was the 
 only son of Thomas, eighth baron of his family, by 
 Mary, natural daughter of Sir Edward Poynings, K.G. 
 After attending the Earl of Hertford in his expedition 
 into Scotland, during the reign of King Henry VIII., 
 he was constituted by Edward VI. admiral of the fleet 
 which aided the Duke of Somerset’s more important 
 irruption into that kingdom. He was next appointed to 
 that office for life; and after taking part in various nego¬ 
 tiations during the two successive reigns, he was created 
 by Queen Elizabeth Earl of Lincoln. At the above 
 period of his life, he was married to his third wife, 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Gerald Fitzgerald, earl of Kildare, 
 the celebrated Geraldine of Lord Surrey’s muse. 
 
 H 
 
50 
 
 NORTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 LVIII. 
 
 THOMAS WRIOTHESLEY, FIRST EARL OF 
 SOUTHAMPTON. 
 
 Born a.d. - Died a.d. 1550. - K. Henry VII. to Q. Mary. 
 
 Arms; Azure, a cross, or, between 4 falcons close, for Wrtothesley; and, as 
 an heiress, Chequy, or and azure , a fesse, gules, fretty argent, for Cheney of 
 Chesham-Boys. 
 
 HOLBEIN. 
 
 With tippet of ermine, bonnet, and George; his shield 
 of arms, with several quarterings, in the back-ground, 
 surrounded with the garter. 
 
 He was grandson of John Wrythe, or Wriothesley, 
 faucon-herald to Edward IV., and garter king-of-arms in 
 the reigns of Richard III. and Henry VII. His father, 
 William, was York herald. He himself rose by various 
 advancements in the time of Henry VIII., from being 
 clerk of the signet to offices of dignity and trust, now as 
 secretary of state, and now as ambassador to the Regent 
 of the Netherlands, where he sought to negotiate a mar¬ 
 riage for his sovereign with Christiana, duchess of Milan, 
 — until he was made Lord Chancellor of England, and 
 created Earl of Southampton. He was of great learning, 
 indefatigable in his study of the law, and shewed the 
 highest integrity in the administration of his office as 
 chancellor,-—being accustomed to say, that “ force awed , 
 but justice governed the world” 
 
 The wife of Thomas, first earl of Southampton, was 
 Jane, daughter and heiress of William Cheney, Esq. of 
 Chesham-Boys, in Buckinghamshire. 
 

STAIRCASE. 
 
 53 
 
 LIX. 
 
 PRINCE FERDINAND. 
 
 Born a. i). 1G09. Died a.d. 1641.- James /. to Charles I. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly of four principal pieces. First, Quarterly; 1 and 4, Castile and 
 Leon, quarterly; 2 and 3, Arragon, impaling Sicily. Second, Quarterly; 
 1, Austria, modern; 2, Burgundy, modern; 3, Ancient Burgundy; 4, 
 Brabant; over all, in an inescocheon, Flanders and Tyrol impaled. The 
 third as the second, and the fourth as the first. 
 
 RUBENS. 
 
 Infante of Spain, and Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo. 
 He was the third son of Philip the Third, king of Spain, 
 by Margaret, daughter of Charles, duke of Stiria. The 
 numerous portraits extant of this prince by Rubens or his 
 pupils, bespeak the popularity which he acquired in the 
 Low Countries, of which he was constituted governor, 
 by his conduct in the celebrated battle of Nortlingen, in 
 1634, which terminated the hopes of the Protestant 
 princes, and, by the peace of Prague, gave repose to the 
 dominions of the emperor Ferdinand the Second. It was 
 to assist the Austrian and Hungarian forces in this 
 struggle, that Prince Ferdinand was sent to the imperial 
 army by his brother, Philip IV., at the head of a powerful 
 body of Spanish troops, which contributed greatly to that 
 victory. His subsequent triumphal entry into Antwerp was 
 graced by a splendid series of allegorical subjects, painted 
 for the occasion by the same great master.* 
 
 * Rubens had been appointed to meet the prince’s cavalcade, and to 
 explain the purport of these allegories; but he was unfortunately pre¬ 
 vented from doing this by illness. To console him for the disappoint¬ 
 ment, Ferdinand condescended to visit him afterwards, at his own 
 house, where he spent some time in conversing with him, and in survey¬ 
 ing his admirable gallery of works of art. 
 
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 STAIRCASE. 
 
 Many of the portraits of this personage bear a re¬ 
 presentation of the distant fight of Nortlingen ; but the 
 absence of this feature in the present picture is more than 
 compensated for by the rich landscape in the back-ground. 
 
 LX. LXI. 
 
 GEORGE BYNG, FIRST VISCOUNT TORRINGTON, 
 
 WITH HIS SON, 
 
 PATTEE, AFTERWARDS SECOND LORD TORRINGTON. 
 
 Born a.d. 1663. Died a.d. 1732-3. - Charles II. to George II. 
 
 Arms ; Quarterly, sable and argent , in the first quarter a lion rampant of the second , 
 for Byng; impaled with Azure, a fesse embattled between 3 griffins’ heads 
 erased, or, for Master. 
 
 KNELLER. 
 
 Eldest son of John Byng, Esq. of Wrotham, in Kent, 
 by Philadelphia, daughter of Mr. Johnson, of Loans, in 
 Surrey. At the age of fifteen he went a volunteer to sea; 
 and after various important services under Lord Dart¬ 
 mouth, Admiral Russell, and Sir Cloudesley Shovel, 
 was in 1708 made Admiral of the White. His assiduity 
 and enterprise on the breaking out of the rebellion in 
 1715, against the enemy’s marine, raised him to the 
 baronetcy; his defeat of the Spanish fleet near Messina 
 infinitely increased his reputation; and after acting as 
 plenipotentiary to the princes of Italy, and by the co¬ 
 operation of his fleet enabling the king’s allies to subdue 
 the greatest part of Sicily, he was raised to the peerage, 
 by the title of Baron Byng, of Southill, and Viscount Tor- 
 rington, in Devonshire. By his wife, Margaret, daughter 
 of James Master, of East Langdon, Kent, he was father 
 
STAIRCASE. 
 
 55 
 
 to the unfortunate John Byng, Admiral of the Blue, 
 who, less by his own error than the factions of the times, 
 became a victim to the nation’s fury for the loss of 
 Minorca, in 1757. 
 
 LXII. 
 
 DIANA, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born a.d. -. Died a.d. 1735.- Queen Anne to George IT. 
 
 Anns ; Russell, as before; impaled with Spencer,— the same as No. XXXIV. 
 
 HUDSON, THE DRAPERY BY VAN AKEN. 
 
 She was the youngest daughter of Charles, third earl of 
 Sunderland, by his second wife, Lady Anne Churchill; 
 and being the favourite grand-daughter of Sarah, duchess 
 of Marlborough, was regarded as the prospective heiress 
 of her large fortune. It was at one time the ambition 
 of the duchess to marry her to Frederick, prince of Wales, 
 to whom she accordingly made overtures, with the pro¬ 
 mise of a fortune of 100,000/. The prince accepted the 
 * proposal, and the day was fixed for their being secretly 
 married at the duchess’s lodge in the great Park at 
 Windsor. But Sir Robert Walpole obtaining intelligence 
 of the project, prevented it, and the secret was buried 
 in silence till disclosed by his son. Lady Diana was 
 ultimately married to Lord John Russell, afterwards 
 fourth duke of Bedford; but she survived the alliance 
 only a few years, dying, without progeny, on the 27th of 
 September, 1735. 
 
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 STAIRCASE. 
 
 LXIII. 
 
 ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly; 1 and 4, Gules, a cross, argent, between five plates in saltier, in 
 each quarter, for Wellesley ; 2 and 3, Or, a lion rampant, gules, for Col¬ 
 ley; and, as an honourable augmentation, in chief an eseocheon, charged with 
 the crosses of St. George, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick conjoined, being the union- 
 badge of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,—impaled with, Quar¬ 
 terly, or and gules , in the first quarter an eagle displayed, vert, for Pakekham. 
 
 GEORGE HAYTER, M.A.S.L. 
 
 / 
 
 With a field of battle in the distance, and his aide-de- 
 camp, Lord George-William Russell, second son of the 
 present Duke of Bedford, riding up to him. The field- 
 marshal is resting his arm on his celebrated charger, 
 Copenhagen, which he rode during the battle of Waterloo, 
 that “ war of giants ,” as he has himself appropriately 
 termed it, — as well as in many other of his victories. 
 He was the fifth son of Richard, first earl of Morning- 
 ton, and married, in 1806, the Hon. Catharine Paken- 
 ham, third daughter of Edward Michael, lord Longford. 
 
 LXIV. and LXV. 
 
 ANNE, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 The same as Nos. XXXIII. and XXXVII.— Jervas. 
 
STAIRCASE. 
 
 57 
 
 LXVI. 
 
 FREDERICK WILLIAM, VISCOUNT VILLIERS. 
 
 Born a.d. 1734. Died a.d. 1742.- George II. to George III. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , on a cross gules , five escallop shells, or. 
 
 WHOOD ; THE LANDSCAPE BY WOOTTON. 
 
 Son of William, third earl of Jersey, by Anne, his countess, 
 widow of Wriothesley, third duke of Bedford. The 
 Prince of Wales, and Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, 
 were sponsors at his baptism, on the 19th of April, 1734. 
 He died at the age of eight years, October 1742. 
 
 LXVII. 
 
 JOHN, FOURTH DUKE OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born a.d. 1710. Died a.d. 1771 _ Queen Anne to George III. 
 
 Arms ; Russell, impaled with Spencer. 
 
 HUDSON. 
 
 The same as No. LXXVIII. 
 
 i 
 
58 
 
 STAIRCASE. 
 
 LXVIII. LXIX. 
 
 ELIZABETH HOWLAND, OF STREATHAM, &c. 
 
 Born a.d. 1650. Died a.d. -- Charles II. to Q. Anne. 
 
 Arms; Argent , 2 bars sable, in chief 3 lions rampant of the second, for Howland; 
 and, as an heiress, gules, a chevron engrailed, ermine, between 3 falcons close, 
 argent, for Child. 
 
 CLOSTERMAN. 
 
 Accompanied by her daughter Elizabeth, afterwards 
 duchess of Bedford. Mrs. Howland was the sole daugh¬ 
 ter and heiress of Sir Josiah Child by his first lady, 
 Hannah, daughter of Edward Boat, Esq. of Portsmouth. 
 She was born at Portsmouth in 1659, and married, in 
 1681, at Wanstead, John Howland, Esq. of Streatham, 
 in the county of Surrey. It is not a little to her honour 
 that she presented the celebrated Hoadley with the 
 rectory of this parish, solely on account of his learning 
 and liberal political opinions, without any previous per¬ 
 sonal acquaintance; thereby atoning for the neglect of 
 Queen Anne, who had been fruitlessly urged by the 
 House of Commons to reward his services as a divine 
 and writer, by some honorary preferment. His share 
 in the dispute, which from him was called the Bangorian 
 controversy, is well known. He dedicated to his pa¬ 
 troness a volume of his sermons. 
 
FRENCH BED-llOOM. 
 
 61 
 
 LXX. 
 
 AUGUSTUS, ADMIRAL KEPPEL. 
 
 Born a.d. 1727. Died a.d. 1786- George I. to George III. 
 
 Arms ; Gules , 3 escallop shells, argent. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 This eminent naval commander was the second son of 
 William-Anne, second earl, and Anne, countess of Albe¬ 
 marle. He entered the navy at an early age, and reaped 
 great distinction at the capture of Goree, in 1758, and of 
 Cuba, in 1762 ; of the former of which expeditions he 
 had the sole direction. In 1778 he was made Rear- 
 admiral of the Blue, and in this station had to sustain the 
 recriminations of Sir Hugh Palliser, whose slackness of 
 support in an engagement with the enemy off the coast 
 of Brittany, had led to so great a disappointment of the 
 national expectations. These being drawn to a charge, 
 the admiral submitted his conduct to a court martial, by 
 which he was triumphantly acquitted. He was first lord 
 of the admiralty in Lord Rockingham’s administration, 
 and was the intimate friend of Burke, who in his writings 
 deservedly eulogises the excellent qualities of his head 
 and heart. He was also the early patron and steady 
 friend of Sir Joshua Reynolds; and took that great artist 
 with him to Italy in the year 1749. He was created 
 Viscount Keppel in 1782 ; but the title died with him, 
 as he was never married. 
 
FRENCH BED-ROOM. 
 
 62 
 
 LXXI. 
 
 ANNE, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born a.d. 1614. Died a.d. 1684_ James I . to Charles II . 
 
 Anns ; Argent , a lion rampant gules , on a chief sable , 3 escallops of the first , for 
 Russell ; and, as an heiress, Gules , on a chevron, argent , 3 mullets, sable, in 
 the dexter part of the escutcheon a lion passant guardant, or, for Carr. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 The only daughter of Robert Carr, earl of Somerset, and 
 Lady Frances Howard, countess of Essex. She was noted 
 in her youth as one of the three chief beauties of the 
 court of Charles the First; the others being Lady Eliza¬ 
 beth Cecil, and Lady Dorothy Sydney. The misconduct 
 of her parents, of which she was happily kept in total 
 ignorance, operated only as a foil to set off to greater 
 lustre the eminence of her virtues. By her marriage 
 with Sir William Russell, afterwards fifth earl of Bedford, 
 in 1637, she became the mother of the great Lord Russell, 
 whose tragic death operated as the precursor of her own, 
 imparting to her sensibility a shock under which her 
 health gradually declined, till the pulse of being ceased, 
 on the 10th of May, 1684. 
 
FRENCH BED-ROOM. 
 
 63 
 
 LXXII. 
 
 ELIZABETH, MARCHIONESS OF TAVISTOCK. 
 
 Born a.d. - . Died a.d. 1767-- George II. to George III. 
 
 Arms ; Russell, as before ; impaled with Gules, 3 escallop shells, argent , for 
 
 Keppel. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 She was the youngest daughter of William-Anne, second 
 earl of Albemarle, and sister of Admiral Keppel, to whose 
 amiable character her mild and unaffected virtues formed 
 a lively counterpart. She married, in 1764, Francis, 
 marquess of Tavistock, only son of John, fourth duke 
 of Bedford. “ Her beauty and merit,” says Lord Orford, 
 “ deserved such a lordand the inconsolable sorrow that 
 followed the accident which deprived her of him, attested 
 the happiness which she had derived from this alliance. 
 She survived her husband but little more than a year, 
 and then, in the words of Rogers, 
 
 “ Died — the victim of exceeding love.” 
 
64 
 
 FRENCH BED-ROOM. 
 
 LXXIII. 
 
 FRANCIS RUSSELL, MARQUESS OF TAVISTOCK. 
 
 Born a.d. 1739. Died a.d. 1767- George II. to George III. 
 
 Arms; as in the preceding page. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 The only son of John, fourth duke, and Gertrude, 
 duchess of Bedford, and husband of the preceding lady, 
 whose society he enjoyed but about three years, being 
 killed by a fall from his horse whilst hunting, in 1767. 
 
 Lord Orford pays but a just tribute to his memory, 
 when he says, " that a life of extraordinary promise was 
 thus prematurely closed; but not until such honour, gene¬ 
 rosity, and every amiable virtue, had shone through the 
 veil of natural modesty, that no young man of quality 
 since the Earl of Ossory, son of the Duke of Ormond, 
 had inspired fonder hopes, attracted higher esteem, or 
 died so universally lamented.” 
 
 The Marquess of Tavistock, to a passionate admiration 
 of the Fine Arts, joined a highly cultivated taste, which 
 he had perfected by a constant intercourse with Sir 
 Joshua Reynolds, and a close study of the works of the 
 great masters in Italy — 
 
 “ Them who first broke the universal gloom, 
 Sons of the Morning ! ”- 
 
 
FRENCH DRESSING-ROOM. 
 
 67 
 
 LXXIV. 
 
 CAROLINE, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH. 
 
 Born a.d. 1742-3. Died a.d.- George II. to George III. 
 
 Arms ; Spencer, as before; impaled with Russell. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 % 
 
 The only sister of the preceding; and married, August 2, 
 1762, to George, third Duke of Marlborough. She was 
 one of the bridemaids to Queen Charlotte, in 1761, on 
 which occasion we find the generally censorious Horace 
 Walpole commending her great beauty. Her domestic 
 attachments became equally proverbial; the same writer 
 observing, in reference to a fever that attacked him whilst 
 he was suffering from the gout: “ I hope that, like the 
 Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, they are so insepar¬ 
 able, that when one goes, t’other will.” 
 
 LXXV. 
 
 GERTRUDE, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Bom a.d. 1715. Died a.d. 1794. - George I. to George III. 
 
 Arms; Russell; impaled with, Quarterly, 1 and 4, barry of eight, argent and 
 gules, over all a cross patonc6 sable, for Gower ; 2 and 3, Azure, three laurel- 
 leaves slipt, or, for Leveson. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 The mother of the preceding; eldest daughter of John, 
 first earl Gower, and of Lady Evelyn Pierrepont; and 
 
68 
 
 FRENCH DRESSING-ROOM. 
 
 second wife of John, fourth duke of Bedford. Her rank, 
 her talent, the polished or the poignant satire which 
 characterised her conversation, the private influence which 
 she occasionally exercised on politics; the zest with 
 which she pursued the pleasures of society ; and the state 
 with which she sustained her part in the public situations 
 into which her husband’s station as a statesman drew her, 
 rendered her, during his lifetime, a personage of consi¬ 
 derable importance; and we accordingly find, that she 
 frequently shared with him in those strictures which it 
 was the practice of the party-writers of her times to heap 
 on their opponents. To no lady of the court does Horace 
 Walpole appear to have been more inimical than to the 
 Duchess of Bedford, whilst few were capable of acts of 
 greater generosity, or of that elevation of mind which 
 looks with indifference on the efforts of calumny and 
 malice. 
 
 LXXVI. 
 
 FRANCIS, MARQUESS OF TAVISTOCK. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 The same as No. LXXIII. In the dress of the Dunstable 
 Hunt. 
 
FRENCH DRESSING-ROOM. 
 
 69 
 
 LXXVII. 
 
 FRANCIS, LORD RUSSELL. 
 
 Born a.d. 1038. Died a.d. 1677-8.- Charles I. to Charles II. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , a lion rampant gules , on a chief, sable , three escallops of the field. 
 
 CLAUDE LEFEVRE. 
 
 The eldest son of William, fifth earl, and Anne, coun¬ 
 tess of Bedford. From the prevalence of a melancholy 
 temperament, which disinclined him from society, and 
 which he in vain endeavoured to dissipate by travel in 
 Italy and Germany, he took no part in the public trans¬ 
 actions of his times; but left this distinction, together 
 with his title, to his younger brother, William, at his 
 death, on the 14th of January, 1677-8. 
 
 LXXVIII. 
 
 JOHN RUSSELL, FOURTH DUKE OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born a.d. 1710. Died a.d. 1771-- Q- Anne to George III. 
 
 Arms; those of Russell, impaled with Goweii, viz. Quarterly, 1 and 4, barry of 
 eight, argent and gules , over all a cross patonce, sable , for Gower ; 2 and 3, 
 Azure , three laurel-leaves slipt, or, for Leveson. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 In his coronation robes. He was the second son of 
 Wriothesley, second duke, and Elizabeth, duchess of Bed¬ 
 ford ; and married, for his first wife. Lady Diana Spencer, 
 
70 
 
 FRENCH DRESSING-ROOM. 
 
 youngest daughter of Charles, third earl of Sunderland; 
 and for his second, Gertrude Leveson, daughter of John, 
 first earl Gower. The great offices which he filled 
 during the reigns of George the Second and his suc¬ 
 cessor, have rendered his name familiar to every reader 
 of English history: although it is to a later age that 
 we must look for that full justice to be done to his 
 integrity and merits as a statesman, which the capricious 
 temper of the nation, in his own times, incited by the 
 virulence of party rivalry and malice, too frequently with¬ 
 held. The high state of perfection to which he brought 
 the marine when at the head of the admiralty, the liberal 
 policy which he pursued in Ireland when lord-lieutenant 
 there, and the advantages which he secured to his 
 country in the two difficult negotiations which issued in 
 the treaties of Madrid and Fontainbleau,— the one com¬ 
 pleted with a court jealous in the extreme of any foreign 
 interference with her commerce, and the other success¬ 
 fully conducted whilst he was exposed to much political 
 treachery at home,—are solid memorials of the abilities 
 and British spirit which distinguished him during nearly 
 forty years of active service to the state. 
 
FRENCH DRESSING-ROOM. 
 
 71 
 
 LXXIX. 
 
 GERTRUDE, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 In her coronation robes, as a companion to the pre¬ 
 ceding. The same as No. LXXV., at a less advanced 
 period of life. 
 
 LXXX. 
 
 WILLIAM, afterwards LORD RUSSELL. 
 
 Born a.d. 1639. Died, a.d. 1683 - Charles I. to Charles II. 
 
 Arms ; Argent, a lion rampant gules , on a chief, sable, three escallops of the first. 
 
 CLAUDE LEFEVRE. 
 
 The second son of William, fifth earl, and Anne, 
 countess of Bedford, the patriot who afterwards attained 
 so eminent a rank in his country’s annals. The present 
 portrait of him, at the age of seventeen, was painted 
 probably as a gift for his tutor, Mr. Thornton, when 
 he and his brother Francis were upon their travels, in 
 1656. Having recently met at Lyons the celebrated 
 Christina, queen of Sweden, his imagination appears to 
 have been dazzled by the majesty of her deportment, and 
 the fame of her achievements. Hence he resolved on 
 undertaking a military campaign with the Swedish army. 
 
72 
 
 FRENCH DRESSING-ROOM. 
 
 as a means of extending his range of knowledge and 
 observation, and provided himself accordingly with the 
 suit of armour in which he is here represented. 
 
PRINT-ROOM. 
 
 75 
 
 LXXXI. 
 
 MISS SIDDONS. 
 
 SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE. 
 
 Sarah, one of the three daughters of the celebrated 
 Mrs. Siddons; whose personal grace, in touching the 
 sensibility of the late Sir Thomas Lawrence, may have 
 often mingled with those inspirations which gave effect 
 to the creations of his pencil. According to the bio¬ 
 graphers of that fine artist and amiable man, she was to 
 have been married to him in his earlier life, had not his 
 limited income at that period, when his genius was too 
 little known, or unappreciated, led her father to refuse his 
 consent to the alliance; and she died a few years after 
 of a pulmonary complaint. 
 
 LXXXII. 
 
 MARIA, COUNTESS OF COVENTRY. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1733. Died a.d. 1760. - George II. to George III. 
 
 Arms; Sable, a fesse ermine, between three crescents, or, for Coventry; impaled 
 with Gules, on a fesse between 3 doves, argent, as many crosses pattee, of the 
 first, for Gunning. 
 
 GAVIN HAMILTON. 
 
 One of the three sisters, whose beauty and virtue raised 
 them to the coronet. She was the eldest daughter of 
 John, eldest surviving son and heir of Bryan Gunning, 
 
76 
 
 PRINT-ROOM. 
 
 Esq. of Castle-Coote, Roscommon, by Bridget, fifth daugh¬ 
 ter of Theobald Bourke, sixth Lord Viscount Mayo; and 
 was married to George-William, sixth earl of Coventry, 
 March 5, 1752. 
 
 Lady Coventry was the theme of universal admiration 
 whilst she lived; and her very death conferred a perpe¬ 
 tuity of fame on others : as the poetry of Mason is prin¬ 
 cipally remembered by the moral garland which he hung 
 upon her hearse. 
 
 A portion of that grace which so much fascinated her 
 contemporaries* still breathes in the following lines of her 
 elegiast : 
 
 “ Whene’er with soft serenity she smiled, 
 
 Or caught the orient flush of quick surprise, 
 
 How sweetly mutable, how brightly wild, 
 
 The liquid lustre darted from her eyes ! 
 
 Each look, each motion waked a new-born grace, 
 
 That o’er her form its transient lustre cast ; 
 
 Some lovelier wonder soon usurped the place, 
 
 Chased by a charm still lovelier than the last.” 
 
 She died on the 1st of October, 1760. 
 
 * “ Dr. Sacheverel,” says Horace Walpole, “ never made more noise 
 than she and her sister beauty.” On their first attracting observation, 
 such crowds followed them in the parks and at Vauxhall, that they were 
 generally driven away by the annoyance; their doors were besieged by 
 curious and expectant mobs ; seats were scrambled for at the theatres 
 when it was known they would be present; and even the decorum of the 
 drawing-room at St. James’s was invaded, during the prevailing epidemic. 
 When the Duchess of Hamilton was presented at court, upon her mar¬ 
 riage, the nobility swarmed to see the ceremony, and clambered upon 
 chairs and tables for a glimpse of her fair person : and on her leaving 
 town for Scotland, many hundreds of persons are said to have sat up all 
 night in and about the hotel in Yorkshire where she slept, merely to 
 have the gratification of seeing her step into her carriage the next 
 morning. 
 
INNER DRAWING-ROOM. 
 
 79 
 
 LXXXIII. 
 
 GEORGE HAYTER, M.A.S.L. 
 
 Born Dec. 17, a.d. 1792. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 The artist who painted the admirable historical picture 
 of the trial of William,, lord Russell; member of the 
 Academies of St. Luke, and of Florence, Venice, Parma, 
 and Bologna. 
 
 LXXXIV. 
 
 LORD JOHN RUSSELL, M.P. for the County of Devon. 
 
 Born a. n. 1792. 
 
 Arms ; for Russell, as before, with a mullet for difference. 
 
 G. HAYTER. 
 
 Holding in his hand the Reform Bill, which he intro¬ 
 duced to Parliament. He is the third son of John, sixth 
 duke of Bedford, and of Georgiana-Elizabeth Byng, his 
 first wife ; and holds the office of Paymaster of the Forces 
 in the administration of Earl Grey. 
 
80 
 
 INNER DRAWING-ROOM. 
 
 LXXXV. 
 
 WILLIAM HOGARTH. 
 
 Born a.d. 1697-8. Died a.d. 1764.- William III. to George III. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 The portrait here presented of this celebrated humourist, 
 who was alternately the Swift and the Moliere of painters, 
 was painted, as a written inscription at the back declares, 
 and presented to his friend, Mr. Greaves, of Chiswick, as 
 an acknowledgment for the gift of a tobacco-box to the 
 bon-vivant artist. 
 
WEST DRAWING-ROOM. 
 
 83 
 
 LXXXVI. to CXIII. 
 
 MINIATURE PORTRAITS OF THE RUSSELL 
 FAMILY, etc. 
 
 A series of twenty-six portraits, brilliantly executed in 
 enamel by Henry Bone, Esq. R. A. ; for particulars of which 
 vide the “ Catalogue of Enamels.” They form a vivid ex¬ 
 hibition of the line of family descent from John, first earl 
 of Bedford, in whose person were concentrated or renewed 
 the honour and distinction which hi^ ancestry of the same 
 surname, for thirteen earlier generations, ascending to a 
 time anterior to the Conquest of England, had acquired 
 during the feudal and chivalric ages. 
 
 Two additional miniatures, by the same artist, on the 
 same imperishable material, serve as appropriate accom¬ 
 paniments to this collection. They are the portraits, 
 after Mabuse, of Philip, Archduke of Austria, justly sur- 
 named the Handsome , and his bride, Joanna of Castile, 
 who, during their short stay in England, in 1506, had the 
 perspicacity to discern the talents of that accomplished 
 “ patriarch of the family,” and the just feeling to recom¬ 
 mend them to the attention of King Henry the Seventh, 
 whereby a great stage was secured for their political 
 development, to the service of three successive sovereigns, 
 the benefit of his country, and the lasting advantage of 
 himself and his descendants. 
 
84 
 
 WEST DRAWING-ROOM. 
 
 - CXIV. 
 
 SKETCH OF HENRY BONE, Esq., R.A. 
 
 An unfinished portrait, by Harlow, of this eminent en¬ 
 amel painter, who, to great correctness of drawing, joins 
 a tone of colour equal to the best oil pictures, accom¬ 
 panied with a force, chasteness, and richness unexampled; 
 but whose best eulogy here may be conveyed in the single 
 word — “ Circumspice !” 
 
SALOON 
 
SALOON. 
 
 87 
 
 cxv. 
 
 DON ADRIAN PAULIDO PAREJA. 
 
 Flourished, a.d. 1588.- Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 VELASQUEZ. 
 
 The second admiral in command of the Spanish Armada, 
 under the Duque de Medina-Sidonia. 
 
 CXVI. 
 
 ELIZABETH, MARCHIONESS OF TAVISTOCK. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 The same as No. LXXII. This admirable portrait, one 
 of the chefs-d oeuvre of Sir Joshua’s pencil, represents 
 her as bridemaid to her Majesty Queen Charlotte, in 
 1760, ornamenting with flowers a statue of Hymen. 
 
88 
 
 SALOON. 
 
 CXVII. 
 
 FRANCIS, FIFTH DUKE OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born a.d. 1765. Died a.d. 1802.- George III. 
 
 Arms ; Russell, as before. 
 
 HOPPNER. 
 
 / 
 
 A nobleman whose life was devoted to his country’s 
 good, and whose death excited a regret as universal as 
 that on the demise of the most exalted crowned head. 
 He was the eldest son of Francis, marquess of Tavistock, 
 by the preceding lady, and died, unmarried, on the 2d of 
 March, 1802. “To contribute,” says Mr. Fox, " to the 
 welfare of his fellow-citizens was the constant pursuit of 
 his life, and by his example and beneficence to render 
 them better, wiser, and happier.” 
 
DINING-ROOM. 
 
 91 
 
 CXVIII. 
 
 FRANCIS RUSSELL, FOURTH EARL OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born ad. 1591. Died a.d. 1641- Q. Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 Arms ; those of Russell ; and, as an heiress, Argent, on a cross, sable, a leopard’s 
 face or, for Brydges. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 The same personage as Nos. XII. and XIII., but painted 
 after he became Earl of Bedford, in 1636, and at the age 
 of forty-eight. It was by this patriotic nobleman that the 
 vast undertaking of draining the Fens was commenced: 
 and this agricultural service to his country would un¬ 
 doubtedly have been followed by equal political benefits, 
 if Charles the First had had the resolution to carry into 
 timely effect his intention of calling him to his councils : 
 as, from his acknowledged sagacity and moderation, and 
 his high reputation and influence with the puritan party, 
 he was the most fitted of any man to have conciliated to 
 the king the confidence of the nation. He unfortunately 
 died of the small-pox the day before the execution of 
 Lord Strafford, whose life he had sought to save, and but 
 for his illness at that peculiar crisis might have succeeded 
 in preserving. 
 
 CXIX. 
 
 ANNE, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 The same as Nos. XXVIII. and LXXI. 
 
92 
 
 DINING-ROOM. 
 
 cxx. 
 
 KING CHARLES THE FIRST. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 The same as No. XLIV., but a mucli moie curious and 
 interesting portrait, being painted by Vandyck, in all pio- 
 bability very soon after lie came to reside in England. 
 It was presented to the Duke of Bedford in 1833, by 
 W. S. Poyntz, Esq., M.P. for Ashburton. 
 
 CXXI. 
 
 MARGARET, LADY CAREY, afterwards 
 LADY HERBERT. 
 
 Flourished a.d. 1636- Charles I. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , on a bend, sable , 3 roses of the field, seeded and barbed, proper , a 
 crescent for difference, for Carey ; impaled with Smith, unknown. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 Lord Orford has termed this the portrait of Mary 
 Herbert, wife of the celebrated Edward, Lord Herbert 
 of Cherbury, and daughter of Sir William Herbert, oi 
 St. Julian’s; but this is certainly a mistake, as the present 
 picture is not only said to bear no resemblance to the 
 portraits of that lady, but the costume is obviously of a 
 later day than that in which she flourished in her greatest 
 bloom, which was during the reigns of Elizabeth and 
 James the First. 
 
DINING-ROOM. 
 
 93 
 
 The lady whom it actually represents is Margaret 
 Smith, wife of Sir Thomas Carey,* brother of Phila¬ 
 delphia, lady Wharton ; after whose death she married 
 a Sir Edward Herbert, the same gentleman, probably, 
 who was colonel of a regiment in the king’s service 
 during the Civil Wars. The identity is placed beyond 
 doubt by the very rare engraving of this lady by Faithorne, 
 one proof impression of which is in the collection at 
 Strawberry Hill, and another was sold at Sir Mark Sykes’ 
 sale, in 1824, for no less a sum than 54/. 12s. 
 
 * Sir Thomas Carey was the second son of Robert, earl of Mon¬ 
 mouth, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Hugh Trevanion, of Corriheigh 
 in Cornwall. His father was the fourth son of Henry, first lord Huns- 
 don, and resided at More House, in Hertfordshire. He himself was 
 gentleman of the bedchamber to Charles I., both when prince and king; 
 and so faithfully adhered to his master throughout all his fortunes, that 
 when the monarch was beheaded, he fell sick, as it is said, with sorrow, 
 and died in 1648, at the age of thirty-three. He was 'author of several 
 pleasing poems, which have been printed scatteredly in various col¬ 
 lections ; and a monument is erected to his memory in Westminster 
 Abbey, where he lies interred. The above portrait must have been 
 painted during his life-time, as Vandyck died in 1641. 
 
94 
 
 DINING-ROOM. 
 
 CXXII. 
 
 ALBERTUS MIRAHJS. 
 
 Born a.d. 1573. Died a.d. 1G40.- Q. Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 Arms ; Azure, a chevron, argent, between three oval mirrors, proper, framed, or. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 He is stated, in the engraving after this picture, to have 
 been a native of Brussels, and Dean of Antwerp; but 
 other accounts represent him as nephew to a dean of 
 that name. He was chief almoner and librarian to 
 Albert, archduke of Austria. As an ecclesiastic, he 
 laboured all his life for the good of the Catholic church; 
 and as a man of letters, sought by his writings to benefit 
 his native country. He is the author of a collection of 
 charters, a biography and chronicle of the Low Coun¬ 
 tries, besides other works, ecclesiastical and historical, . 
 which display considerable talent and acumen. 
 
 CXXIII. 
 
 QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA. 
 
 Born a.d. 1609. Died a.d. 1669. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly, 1 and 4, France and England, quarterly; 2, Scotland; 
 3, Ireland ; impaled with azure, 3 fleurs-de-lys, or, for France. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 In white drapery and pearl stomacher, holding a rose in 
 her right hand. This picture came from the collection of 
 M. de Calonne ; and is classed by Mr. Smith, in his “ Cata¬ 
 logue of the Works of Vandyck,”* amongst the portraits 
 of the imperial and imperious queen of Charles the First. 
 
 Page 131. No. 479. 
 
DINING-ROOM. 
 
 95 
 
 CXXIV. 
 
 ALGERNON PERCY, TENTH EARL OF 
 NORTHUMBERLAND. 
 
 Born a.d. 1602. Died a.d. 1668.- James I. to Charles I. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly, 1 and 4; Azure, five fusils in fesse, or, for Percy; 2 and 3, Or, 
 a lion rampant, azure, for Brabant ; impaled with Barry of 10, argent and 
 azure, over all, six escutcheons, 3, 2, and 1, sable, each charged with a lion ram¬ 
 pant of the field, for Cecil. 
 
 After VANDYCK. 
 
 The third, but eldest surviving son of Henry, ninth earl 
 of that title, by Dorothy, daughter of Walter Devereux, 
 earl of Essex, and widow of Sir Thomas Perrot. In 1637, 
 he was appointed, for his knowledge and skill in naval 
 affairs. High Admiral to Charles I.; was at the head of 
 his affairs in 1639; and appointed general of the army 
 against the Scots; but being probably disinclined to this 
 crusade of intolerance, he pleaded sickness, retired from the 
 king’s service before the army marched northward, and 
 took his final stand with the patriots who sought to re¬ 
 strict the despotic power of the crown. With all this 
 love of liberty and independence, he was inclined to 
 moderate courses; he acted as a mediatory commissioner 
 in the various treaties set on foot for peace; and resolutely 
 opposed the Ordinance for the trial of his former master; 
 after whose death he retired to Petworth, and took no 
 part in public affairs until the Restoration, which he desired 
 to see coupled with appropriate guarantees for the public 
 liberties. He had a lofty deportment, in perfect harmony 
 with his innate dignity of mind, and is characterised by 
 one of his contemporaries as “ the mirror of English no- 
 bility, for a well - governed greatness, his house having 
 been a college for discipline, and a court for grandeur.” 
 
96 
 
 DINING-ROOM. 
 
 cxxv. 
 
 HENRIETTA, DUCHESS OF ORLEANS. 
 
 Born a.d. 1645. Died a.d. 1670 - Charles I. to Charles II. 
 
 Arms ; France, impaled with England. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 The youngest daughter of Charles the First and Hen¬ 
 rietta Maria, and wife to Philip, duke of Orleans. Nei¬ 
 ther her wit, vivacity, nor talents, could rivet the affec¬ 
 tions of her husband, who, on her return from negociat- 
 ing between Louis XIV. and her brother the treaty against 
 Holland, is said to have caused her to be poisoned, by 
 administering a dose of sublimate in a glass of succory- 
 water, of which she died a few hours after, in great agony. 
 This portrait is from the Orleans Collection. 
 
 CXXVI. 
 
 PORTRAIT OF A NOBLEMAN UNKNOWN. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 In a blue embroidered Spanish dress: engraved in the 
 Orleans gallery of pictures. It has passed for a portrait 
 of Lord Francis Villiers, brother to the Duke of Buck¬ 
 ingham, and “ the comeliest man to see to, and the most 
 hopeful to converse with in Englandwho was slain at 
 Combe Park, during the Civil Wars, in 1648, on refusing 
 quarter; but as he was born in 1629, and was conse¬ 
 quently only nineteen when this catastrophe took place, 
 there is but too much reason to doubt the correctness of 
 this appellation. 
 
BREAKFAST-ROOM. 
 
 99 
 
 CXXVII. 
 
 CAROLINE, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH. 
 
 GAINSBOROUGH. 
 
 The same as No. LXXIV. 
 
 CXXVIII. CXXIX. 
 
 GEORGE, LORD DIGBY, and his Brother-in-law, SIR 
 WILLIAM RUSSELL, afterwards fifth Earl and 
 first Duke of Bedford. 
 
 The former born a.d. 1612. Died a.d. 1676 - James I. to Charles II. 
 
 The latter born a.d. 1613. Died a.d. 1700 _ James I. to Q. Anne. 
 
 Arms; Azure, a fleur-de-lys, argent, for Dighy ; impaled with Russell. 
 Russell, as before. 
 
 After VANDYCK. 
 
 The fii st in black, tbe latter in a suit of red. George, 
 lord Digby, was the son of John, earl of Bristol, James 
 the First s ambassador to Spain, and the subsequent poli¬ 
 tical rival of the Duke of Buckingham. He occupied, 
 perhaps, a yet more conspicuous position in the world’s 
 regard than even that distinguished nobleman. His 
 genius was as indisputable as his character was versatile. 
 He was by turns a student, a poet, a polemic, a patriot, 
 a courtiei, and a warrior. From a Protestant impugner 
 of the errors of Catholicism, he became a convert to the 
 faith which he opposed; and from being a strenuous 
 opponent of the measures and ministers of Charles the 
 First, he left his party, and veered round with the most 
 winning ease, to become the monarch’s advocate and 
 
100 
 
 BREAKFAST-ROOM. 
 
 champion. Yet, wherever he moved, he captivated all 
 hearts by the grace of his manners and the sparkling 
 sallies of his wit; and left the world at a loss whether it 
 ought most to censure, or most to admire him. 
 
 Sir William Russell was the son of Francis, fourth 
 earl, and Katherine, countess of Bedford; and the present 
 portrait was painted soon after his return from his travels 
 in 1634, before he became Earl of Bedford. Lord Orford 
 thus happily contrasts the two. Though represented in 
 one piece, “ their characters were exceedingly dissimilar. 
 Lord Bedford was honest, sincere, and moderate; and 
 so far from being a bigot to party, that he often fluctu¬ 
 ated, yet still with a view to preserve the balance of the 
 constitution, and without even being suspected of acting 
 from self-interest or ambition. Lord Bristol, with brighter 
 parts, was rash, enterprising, full of art, and by no means 
 steady to the principles of honour, nor firm to those of 
 religion. Both distinguished themselves by personal 
 bravery; but Bristol’s restless ambition and subtlety 
 only sullied his reputation; Bedford’s integrity and tem¬ 
 per carried him to the grave with honour, at the great 
 age of eighty-seven.” 
 
 Lord Digby married Anne, the second sister of 
 Sir William. In 1643, he was made one of the secre¬ 
 taries of state to the king; and in 1653 became Earl of 
 Bristol. Upon the monarch’s death, he was exempted 
 from pardon by the parliament, and lived in exile till 
 the Restoration, when he also was restored to his pos¬ 
 sessions, and made knight of the garter. He wrote a 
 comedy called Elvira, from which Mr. Ellis, in his “ Spe¬ 
 cimens of Early English Poetry,” has extracted the pretty 
 little song concluding— 
 
 “ What are all the senses’ pleasures, 
 
 When the mind has lost all measures ?” 
 
BREAKFAST-ROOM. 
 
 101 
 
 ' I 
 
 CXXX. CXXXI. 
 
 LADY ANNE, AND LADY DIANA RUSSELL. 
 
 Arms ; of Russell, in lozenge, as before. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 The two elder daughters of William, fifth earl, and Anne, 
 countess of Bedford. The former in red, extending her 
 arm to partake of the cherries which her sister holds in 
 her lap, is reported to have died in childhood, in con¬ 
 sequence of eating some poisonous berries which she had 
 gathered in a ramble: the latter, in blue, became after¬ 
 wards Lady Verney, the same as No. XXIV. 
 
 CXXXII. CXXXIII. 
 
 PHILIP THE SECOND OF SPAIN, AND MARY, QUEEN 
 OF ENGLAND. 
 
 The former horn a.d. 1527. Died a.d. 1598. 
 
 The latter born a.d. 1515. Died a.d. 1558. 
 
 Arms of Philip of Spain ; Party per fesse, the chief part Quarterly, 1 and 4, 
 Castile and Leon quarterly ; 2 and 3, Arragon, impaling Sicily; the base part of 
 the escocheon is also Quarterly, viz—1, Austria, modern ; 2, Burgundy, modern ; 
 3, Ancient Burgundy; 4, Brabant. Over all, on an inescocheon, Flanders and 
 Tyrol impaled. Arms of Q. Mary, Quarterly; 1 and 4, France and England 
 quarterly; 2, Scotland; 3, Ireland. 
 
 SIR ANTONICTM ORE. H - 
 
 A VERY curious painting, representing this austere and 
 gloomy couple, if before their marriage, in a scene of 
 formal and most stately courtship; if after marriage. 
 
102 
 
 BREAKFAST-ROOM. 
 
 under the apparent impression of that great state con¬ 
 sequence which the heralds published, when the ceremony 
 closed, proclaiming them, with all their pomp of office, 
 “ King and Queen of England, France, Ireland, Naples, 
 and Jerusalem, Defenders of the Faith, Princes of Spain 
 and Sicily, and Elect of the empire of Germany and 
 kingdom of the Romans; Archduke and Archduchess of 
 Milan, Burgundy, and Brabant; and Count and Countess of 
 Hapsburg, Flanders, and Tyrol.” “ When,” observes Lord 
 Orford, with his usual piquancy, “ two such sanguinary 
 hands were joined, it was lucky for mankind that no issue 
 was the consequence. The intrepidity of the Tudors, 
 united with the unprincipled policy of Charles the Fifth 
 and Philip, might have depopulated Europe, and formed 
 as desolate a waste of empire as that of the Ottomans!” 
 
 CXXXIV. 
 
 JOHN, FOURTH DUKE OF BEDFORD. 
 
 GAINSBOROUGH. 
 
 The same as Nos. LXVII. and LXXVIII., painted in 
 1763. Sir Joshua Reynolds did Gainsborough the honour 
 of making a copy of this portrait for the Earl of Upper 
 Ossory, which is still at Ampthill Park. 
 
BREAKFAST-ROOM. 
 
 103 
 
 cxxxv. 
 
 LOUIS THE FIFTEENTH OF FRANCE. 
 
 Born a.d. 1710. Died a.d. 1774 . 
 
 Arms of France. 
 
 VANLOO. 
 
 In his regal robes. A presentation-picture by the mo¬ 
 narch to the preceding nobleman, on his leaving France, 
 after concluding, in 1763, the peace of Fontainebleau. 
 
 CXXXVI. 
 
 ELIZABETH, MARCHIONESS OF TAVISTOCK. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 / 
 
 The same as Nos. LXXII. and CXVI. 
 
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FIRST COMPARTMENT. 
 
 107 
 
 CXXXVII. 
 
 GIOVANNI LANFRANCO. 
 
 Born a.d. 1581. Died a.d. 1647.- Q- Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 Pupil of the Caraccis, a painter of grand conceptions, 
 dark shadows, and admirable foreshortenings. He was 
 knighted by Pope Urban VIII. for one of his pictures: 
 his chef-d’oeuvre is the painting in the cupola of St. An¬ 
 drea delle Valle, at Rome, which represents the Saints in 
 Glory. 
 
 CXXXVIII. CXXXIX. 
 
 DANIEL MYTENS AND HIS WIFE. 
 
 Flourished a.d. 1625-1636. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 Born about 1606. A native of the Hague, and of a 
 family which produced several portrait-painters of great 
 merit, but none superior to himself. He came to Eng¬ 
 land, as it is thought, in hopes of succeeding to the 
 employment of Van Somer; and in 1625 was appointed 
 one of the portrait-painters to Charles I., enjoying great 
 reputation, till Vandyck’s arrival threw him somewhat 
 into the shade. He was still living in 1656. 
 
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 LIBRARY. 
 
 CXL. 
 
 SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS. 
 
 Born a.d. 1577. Died a.d. 1640 - Q. Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 A native of Antwerp, the seventh son of John Rubens, 
 a civilian and counsellor of the senate of that city, and 
 of Maria Pypeling, a lady of distinguished family in the 
 Low Countries. A gentleman whose accomplishments 
 marked him out for the employment of kings, and a 
 painter, for the patronage of whose pencil princes were 
 competitors. 
 
 For him Invention opens all her springs, 
 
 And Fancy wafts him on her wildest wings; 
 
 Her magic hand light Execution lends, 
 
 And Colouring her rich tissued robe extends. 
 
 Whether, to Heaven devote, his skill divine 
 Adorns, with sacred themes, the hallowed shrine,— 
 
 Or, learn’d, in allegory’s mystic maze, 
 
 The acts of kings and heroes he displays,—■ 
 
 The landscape spreads with light luxuriant gl-ace, 
 
 Or hunts, in sylvan scenes, the savage race,— 
 
 Whatever shape the graphic Proteus wears, 
 
 The full magnificence of art appears. 
 
 Shee. 
 
FIRST COMPARTMENT. 
 
 109 
 
 CXLI. 
 
 THE CHEVALIER PHILIPPE LE ROY. 
 
 Flourished a.d. 1031-1654. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , a bend gules. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 Lord of Ravels, Brouchem, and Uleghem, in the Low 
 Countries, counsellor to Prince Ferdinand, a distinguished 
 amateur of the Fine Arts, and knight of the Golden 
 Fleece. He was the son of James Le Roy, lord of Her- 
 baix, and president of the council-chamber of Brabant. 
 He appears in this picture about forty years of age: one 
 portrait of him was painted by Vandyck in 1631; and 
 he was still living in 1654 ; as in that year Hendricx 
 dedicated to him the engraving of his father, who had died 
 in the previous year, at the age of eighty-four. 
 
 CXLII. 
 
 JOHN KUPETSKI. 
 
 Born a.d. 1667* Died a.d. 1740. - Charles II. to George II. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 A Bohemian artist of obscure parentage, but of passionate 
 devotion to art. He was patronised by Count Czobor, a 
 Hungarian nobleman, till he had corrected his first faults 
 by study of the Italian masters; when his portraits, for 
 their truth, their colouring, and spirit, were preferred to 
 the best of his contemporaries. He was for some time 
 principal painter to the Emperor Joseph. 
 
110 
 
 LIBRARY. 
 
 CXLIII. 
 
 JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT, MARQUIS DE SEIGNELAI. 
 
 Born a.d. 1619. Died a.d. 1683 _ James I. to William and Mary. 
 
 Arms; Or, a serpent erect, pale, azure. 
 
 PHILIP DE CHAMPAGNE. 
 
 The well-known minister whom Cardinal Mazarin, with 
 his dying breath, bequeathed to the service and favour 
 of Louis XIV., “ and whose twenty years’ rule over the 
 finances of France made his name,” says Lord John 
 Russell, “ equal in fame to that of his master. With a 
 noble zeal for toleration, he opposed the revocation of the 
 edict of Nantz, and thereby incurred the enmity of the 
 bigots in power and the coolness of his sovereign. Yet 
 no minister ever exceeded him in zeal for the glory of 
 Louis; and it was his dying observation, when disturbed 
 by some religious apprehensions : f If I had done for 
 God what I have done for the king, I might have been 
 saved twice over!’ a remark that bears a striking analogy 
 to that which Shakespeare has put into the mouth of 
 Wolsey.” 
 
 Colbert was descended of a family originally Scottish : 
 his father, Nicholas Colbert, was made a counsellor of 
 state after the elevation of his son. He married Marie, 
 daughter of Jaques Charron, governor of Blois, and Seig¬ 
 neur de Menars, by whom he left a numerous progeny. 
 
SECOND COMPARTMENT. 
 
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 SECOND COMPARTMENT. 
 
 CXLIV. 
 
 TIZIANO VECELLI. 
 
 Born a.d. 1480. Died a.d. 1576.- Edward IV. to Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 The retort of the Emperor Charles the Fifth to the 
 jealous grandees of his court, “ There is hut one Titian ,” 
 furnishes the best comment upon this admirable portrait. 
 
 CXLV. 
 
 SIR GODFREY KNELLER. 
 
 Born a.d. 1C48. Died a.d. 1726. - Charles I. to George I. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 Born at Lubeck, and introduced by the Duke of Mon¬ 
 mouth to the court of Charles the First, where, after the 
 death of Lely, he reigned without a peer in portrait¬ 
 painting, down to the time of George the Second. He 
 was the friend of Addison and Pope; and both those 
 rival geniuses, as well as Dryden, Steele, and Pryor, con¬ 
 curred in flattering, by their eulogies, his inordinate vanity, 
 which was only equalled by his love of lucre. 
 
112 
 
 LIBRARY. 
 
 CXLVI. 
 
 MICHAEL JANSEN MIREVELT. 
 
 Born a. i). 1568. Died a.d. 1641.—Q. Elizabeth to Charles /. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 A native of Delft; a scholar of Antony Blochland, and 
 so indefatigably industrious with his pencil, as, according 
 to Houbraken, to have painted no fewer than five thou¬ 
 sand portraits during his life,—Sandrart says, twice that 
 number. His great reputation induced Charles the First 
 to invite him to England; but the prevalence of the 
 plague in London, at that time, led him to decline the 
 monarch’s offer. 
 
 CXLVII. 
 
 REMBRANDT VAN RHYN. 
 
 Born a.d. 160G. Died a.d. 1674 - James I. to Charles II. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 This vigorous and untutored artist, the magician of light 
 and shade, was the native of a village near Leyden; and 
 amongst the rich etchings which his fertile and impetuous 
 genius executed, is one of the Mill where he first saw the 
 light, and first called into play the unsuspected powers 
 of his pencil. 
 
SECOND COMPARTMENT. 
 
 113 
 
 CXLVIII. 
 
 GIACOMO BAROCCI, DA VIGNOLA. 
 
 Born a.d. 1507* Died a.d. 1573. - Henry VIII. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 GIACOMO BASSAN. 
 
 The celebrated architect of Bologna, better known by 
 the name of his birth-place, Vignola, than of his family. 
 He succeeded Michael Angelo in the building of St. 
 Peter’s at Rome; and the various other churches, pa¬ 
 laces, and castles, which were built in Italy, either by 
 him, or after his designs, attest the excellence of his 
 genius and taste, by the admiration which they never fail 
 to elicit from the traveller and connoisseur. 
 
 CXLIX. 
 
 ANDREA VESALIUS. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1513. Died a.d. 1564. - Henry VIII. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 TITIAN. 
 
 This eminent personage, the father of anatomical science, 
 was a native of Brussels, and descended from a family 
 which had abounded in medical professors. He was 
 physician to the Emperor Charles V., as well as to his 
 son, the King of Spain, who honourably interposed to 
 rescue him, in his latter years, from the terrible Inquisi¬ 
 tion, before which he was cited in consequence of having 
 prematurely opened the body of a young nobleman, whose 
 
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 LIBRARY. 
 
 life his parents and himself had imagined quite extinct. 
 A pilgrimage to the Holy Land was imposed on him as 
 an atonement for this involuntary error; and he was 
 returning, to succeed Fallopius in the medical chair at 
 Padua, when a violent tempest wrecked the ship in 
 which he had embarked, and threw him a lifeless corse 
 upon the isle of Zante. He was interred there, in the 
 month of October, 1564. 
 
 CL. 
 
 DAVID TENIERS, THE YOUNGER. 
 
 Born a. ii. 1610. Died a.d. 1694. - James I. to William III. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 To range the murmuring market-place, and view 
 The motley groups which faithful Teniers drew,— 
 
 is cited by Mr. Rogers, as one of the principal morning 
 pleasures of his lettered virtuoso, in that graceful “ Epistle 
 to a Friend,” in which he seeks to illustrate the virtue of 
 true taste: and it is one, perhaps, which, to a reflective 
 spectator, can only be equalled by the contemplation of 
 some of those pictured festivals, so full of gaiety, simpli¬ 
 city, and truth, which render the canvass of this inimit¬ 
 able artist so universally attractive. 
 
SECOND COMPARTMENT. 
 
 115 
 
 CLI. 
 
 CHARLES DE MALLERY. 
 
 Born a.d. 1570. Died a.d.-.- Queen Elizabeth to Charles /. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 A designer, engraver, and printseller, born at Antwerp, 
 in 1576. Of great assiduity, he executed a vast number 
 of devotional subjects, frontispieces, &c., as well from bis 
 own designs as those of others. If not a pupil of the 
 brothers Wierex, he must have intently studied the high 
 finish and careful execution of their works. The present 
 portrait of him, by Vandyck, is a sufficient token of the 
 esteem in which he was held by the masters of his day. 
 
 CLII. 
 
 FRANCIS HALS. 
 
 Born a.d. 1584. Died a.d. 1666 - Q. Elizabeth to Charles /. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 Native of Mechlin; a portrait-painter, whose pictures had 
 so much merit, that Vandyck went to Haerlem, where he 
 lived, with no other intention than to pay him a visit; 
 and was besides accustomed to say, that he would have 
 been unrivalled in his profession, if he had given some¬ 
 what more tenderness to his colours. 
 
116 
 
 LIBRARY. 
 
 CLIII. 
 
 JOHN VANDEN WOUVER. 
 
 Born a.d. 1574. Was living a.d. 1632 - Q. Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 Arms; Barry of or and azure , on a canton, argent, 3 chevronnels, gules. 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 Painted, as an inscription on the engraving of him by 
 Pontius evinces, in 1632, at the age of fifty-eight. He 
 was a native of Antwerp, a member of the supreme council 
 of war and finance to Prince Ferdinand (No. LIX.), and 
 governor of Quesnay, in the Low Countries. A dupli¬ 
 cate, by the same master, is in the Hermitage at St. 
 Petersburg. 
 
 THIRD COMPARTMENT. 
 
 CLIV. 
 
 BARTOLOMO ESTEVAN MORELLI. 
 
 Born a.d. 1629. Died a.d. 1683 _ Charles I. to Charles II. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 Called II Pianora, from his birthplace in Lombardy. 
 He was a scholar of Albano, and painted history with 
 great reputation, particularly in fresco: the best of his 
 works are to be seen at Bologna. 
 
THIRD COMPARTMENT. 
 
 117 
 
 CLV. 
 
 GIACOMO ROBUSTI — IL TINTORETTO. 
 
 Born a.d. 1512. Died, a.d. 1594.- Henry VIII. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 Tiie daring rapidity and glowing enthusiasm with which 
 Tintoret was accustomed to dash off his finest produc¬ 
 tions, are happily depicted to us by the terms in which 
 he was characterised by Paul Veronese, and other great 
 painters of his time, when he dazzled them by the pro¬ 
 duction of his finished picture of the Apotheosis of San 
 Rocco within a stated time, in which they had been able 
 only to produce designs ,— 
 
 “ Painting’s thunderbolt, the furious Tintoret.” 
 
 CLVI. 
 
 JOHN SNELLINCK. 
 
 Born a.d. 1544. Died a.d. 1638 - Henry VIII. to Charles I. 
 
 VANDYCK. 
 
 A painter of history and battles; born at Mechlin, but 
 resident at Antwerp, and esteemed by Vandyck as one 
 of the best painters of the Netherlands in that class of 
 art. 
 
118 
 
 LIBRARY. 
 
 CLVII. CLVIII. 
 
 PETER DE JODE THE YOUNGER, AND HIS WIFE. 
 
 Born a.d. 1606. Died a.d.- James I. to Charles I. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 Accompanied by their infant daughter. A native of 
 Anvers, the son and pupil of Peter de Jode the elder, 
 whom he lived to excel in purity of taste and handling 
 of the burin. Bassan used to say of him, that in several 
 of his works he equalled the best engravers of his times, 
 although in some he fell below himself. Notwithstanding 
 this inequality, he undoubtedly deserves to be ranked with 
 the Bolswerts and the Vorstermans of that epoch of 
 engraving. 
 
 CLIX. 
 
 MARTIN PEPYN. 
 
 Born a.d. 1578. Died a.d--- Q. Elizabeth to 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 The Flemish painter so eminent in his profession, that 
 Rubens, when in the zenith of his fame at Antwerp, 
 hearing that he designed to return from Italy to his own 
 country, shewed considerable uneasiness, which was not 
 alleviated till Pepyn had married and settled at Rome, 
 when he declared to his friends that he no longer feared 
 a diminution of the celebrity which he was acquiring. 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT. 
 
 119 
 
 CLX. 
 
 JAN STEEN. 
 
 Born a.d. 1G36. Died a.I). 1689 - Charles I. to Charles II. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 A native of Leyden, the bacchanalian painter, who sought 
 to confer immortality on the alehouse frolics and festivi¬ 
 ties in which he figured. 
 
 LAST COMPARTMENT. 
 
 CLXI. 
 
 JOHN BOTH. 
 
 Born a.d. 1610. Died a.d. 1650. - James I. to Charles I. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 The painter of Utrecht, whose fresh and sunny land¬ 
 scapes, painted with so much liveliness and delicacy, seem 
 to share with Claude half his beauty and enchantment. 
 
 CLXII. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 Born a.d. 1723. Died a.d. 1792. - George II. to George III. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 The unrivalled master of that happy art, whose power 
 is employed “ in diffusing friendship, in renewing tender¬ 
 ness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and con¬ 
 tinuing the presence of the dead.” 
 
120 
 
 LIBRARY. 
 
 CLXIII. 
 
 SAMUEL ROGERS, Esq. 
 
 GEORGE HAYTER, M.A.S.L. 
 
 The author of the Pleasures of Memory, Italy, Human 
 
 Life, &c. &c. 
 
 CLXIV. to CLXVI. 
 
 TITIAN, PAUL VERONESE, and TINTORET. 
 
 TITIAN. 
 
 This picture of the celebrated Venetian triumvirate was 
 purchased by Mr. Hayter for the Duke of Bedford, at 
 Mr. West’s sale, who so highly admired it, that he once 
 said to Mr. Hayter, “ If I look at that picture before I 
 go to my painting-room, I feel almost ashamed to take 
 up my palette.” 
 
 CLXVII. 
 
 GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI,— IL GUERCINO. 
 
 Born a.d. 1590. Died a.d. 1G66 - Q. Elizabeth to Charles II. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 Painted for the Conte Fava of Bologna, a patron and 
 particular friend of the artist, and presented to Mr. Hayter 
 by his descendant for the express purpose of being trans¬ 
 ferred to this collection. The noted painter of the Duomo 
 at Piacenza, in which immense work “ he has carried 
 fresco painting to the highest perfection, in the beauty and 
 force of his colouring, the boldness of his foreshortening, 
 and the magic of his relief.” 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT. 
 
 121 
 
 CLXVIII. 
 
 LEANDRO DA PONTE. 
 
 Born a.d. 1558. Died a.d. 1622. - Q. Elizabeth to James I. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 He was the third son of Giacomo da Ponte, commonly 
 called Bassan, from his place of birth; by whom he was 
 educated, and whose style he followed in his historical 
 pictures; but devoted the latter part of his life principally 
 to portrait-painting, in which he obtained great celebrity. 
 
 CLXIX. 
 
 SIR ANTHONY VANDYCK. 
 
 Born a.d. 1599. Died a.d. 1641 _ Q. Elizabeth to Charles /. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 Purchased by the Duke of Bedford in 1803, of Harris, 
 the picture-dealer, as a portrait of Vandyck, by himself: 
 but, though in all probability painted by him, more than 
 doubts have since been thrown on the identity of the 
 portrait. The prices which this inimitable artist used to 
 receive — of forty pounds for a half, and sixty pounds 
 for a whole-length portrait—may furnish us with some 
 curious reflections on the change of the standard of 
 value, of the encouragement of art, and the increase of 
 luxury or taste, since the reign of Charles the First, 
 which has bequeathed to posterity so many fine produc¬ 
 tions of his pencil. 
 
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 LIBRARY. 
 
 CLXX. 
 
 PAOLO CAGLIARI, —PAUL VERONESE. 
 
 Born a.d. 1532. Died a.d. 1588 _ Henry VIII. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 This portrait of the great Venetian master is by Carletto 
 Cagliari, his son. 
 
 CLXXI. 
 
 GERARD DOUW. 
 
 Born a.d. 1G13. Died a.d. 1674 - James I. to Charles I. 
 
 REMBRANDT. 
 
 This most wonderful of all the Flemish painters, for 
 the perfection of his finish, and the illusion of his scene, 
 was the son of a glazier at Leyden, and an early scholar 
 of the master who has transmitted us the present mild 
 but melancholy portrait of him. 
 
 CLXXII. 
 ALBERT CUYP. 
 
 Born a.d. 1606. Died a.d.-.- James I. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 The chaste and sunny painter of landscapes, river-views, 
 and cattle; but equally felicitous in the various other 
 classes of objects to which he directed the power of his 
 exquisitely clear and glowing pencil. 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT. 
 
 123 
 
 CLXXIII. 
 
 SIR ANTONIO MORE. 
 
 Born a.d. 1509. Died a.d. 1575 _ Henry VIII. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 Born at Utrecht, the scholar of Schoreel, but follower 
 of Holbein. Attending Philip of Spain to England, he 
 remained here till the death of Queen Mary. He after¬ 
 wards withdrew himself from Spain to the protection of 
 the Duke of Alva, in Holland, in fear of the consequences 
 which might result to him from having, it is said, indis¬ 
 creetly smeared the king’s hand with carmine, as he was 
 painting, in return for a jocose slap on the shoulder with 
 which the austere monarch had honoured him. 
 
 CLXXIV. 
 
 GIUSEPPE CESARE,—IL CAVALIER D’ARPINO. 
 
 Born a.d. 15G0. Died a.d. 1640 - Q. Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 HIMSELF. 
 
 Of an obscure parentage, he passed, by the mere force 
 of native talent, from arranging the palettes of artists, 
 to sketch, to design, and to paint compositions which 
 secured him the patronage of two successive popes, 
 and fixed him at the head of a school in Rome, which, 
 notwithstanding his defects, was one of the most fre¬ 
 quented of his times. He painted battle-pieces and pro¬ 
 cessions with great facility, spirit, and power of invention, 
 and died at the age of eighty, 1640. 
 
124 
 
 LIBRARY. 
 
 CLXXV. 
 
 RENE DESCARTES. 
 
 Born a.d. 1590. Died a.d. 1650. - Q. Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 PHILIP DE CHAMPAGNE. 
 
 The celebrated French philosopher. 
 
 CLXXVI. 
 
 OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 
 
 Born a.d. 1728. Died a.d. 1772.- George II. to George III. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 Novelist, dramatist, and poet: “ shining in each, and 
 great alike in all.” 
 
 CLXXVII. 
 
 DAVID GARRICK. 
 
 Born a.d. 1716. Died a.d. 1779-- George I. to George III. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 Justly celebrated as the brightest ornament of the stage, 
 of the period in which he lived: as an actor, his fame is 
 imperishable. 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT. 
 
 125 
 
 CLXXVIII. 
 
 SIR ANTONIO CANOVA. 
 
 Born a.d. 1757- Died a.d. 1821. - George II. to George IV. 
 
 GEORGE HAYTER, M.A.S.L. 
 
 Of this admirable sculptor, whose death excited over 
 Europe such extraordinary regret to the lovers of the 
 Fine Arts, and whose unostentatious modesty threw a 
 kind of enchantment on his genius, it has been observed, 
 that for grace of figure and of action, for that perfection 
 of parts and harmony of union which produce the effect 
 of loveliness, and for that animation which deludes us 
 into a belief of reality, his nymphs are unrivalled, creating 
 what may be called a chaste voluptuousness, and reviving 
 in the mind some of the brightest fictions of the ancient 
 poets. 
 
SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 129 
 
 CLXXIX. 
 
 ELIZABETH, MARCHIONESS OF TAVISTOCK. 
 
 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 
 
 The same as Nos. LXXII., CXVI., and CXXXVI., if 
 the traditionary account of it be correct: but this head 
 must be admitted to vary so much from the features of 
 the other portraits of this lady, as to excite some doubts 
 whether it were not designed rather as a portrait of one of 
 her sisters. 
 
 CLXXX. 
 
 SARAH, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH* 
 
 WHOOD, after KNELLER. 
 
 The same as No. LVII. With the gold key, as cham¬ 
 berlain to Queen Anne. 
 
 * It is doubtless of this picture that the duchess thus writes to 
 her grand-daughter, Diana, duchess of Bedford, in 1734. “ I daresay 
 
 what Whood copies will be extremely well; all I ever doubted of him 
 was his fancy. I remember my picture is powdered, which I think 
 mighty ugly; but as Sir Godfrey Kneller did that for himself, I never 
 knew any thing of it till, many years after his death, I saw it at his house 
 in the country. But I believe that cannot be altered now, without run¬ 
 ning the hazard of doing hurt to the picture; though it was a very odd 
 fancy in him to make my hair look like the queen’s, when she came first 
 into England, covered all over with powder, when, I fancy, the best 
 thing I had was the colour of my hair.” 
 
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130 
 
 SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 CLXXXI. 
 
 JOHN CHURCHILL, FIRST DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. 
 
 Born a.d. 1650. Died a.d. 1722 _ Charles I. to George I. 
 
 Arms; Sable , a lion rampant, argent, on a canton of the last, a cross, gules , for 
 Churchill; impaled with Jennings, as an heiress, argent, on a fesse, gules, 
 3 bezants. 
 
 Son of Sir Winstan Churchill, of Churchill, in Somerset¬ 
 shire, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Drake; whose 
 foibles as a man are wholly lost in the blaze of reputation 
 which he acquired as a military general, whose very name 
 was a synonyme for victory, and whose sword set a deci¬ 
 sive limit to the pretensions of an ambition only less 
 universal than that which tormented, in a later age, the 
 spirit of Napoleon Buonaparte. 
 
 CLXXXII. 
 
 GERTRUDE, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 HUDSON. 
 
 The same as Nos. LXXV. and LXXIX. In a masque¬ 
 rade dress. 
 
SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 131 
 
 CLXXXIII. 
 
 WRIOTHESLEY RUSSELL, THIRD DUKE OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born a.d. 1708. Died a.d. 1732. - Q. Anne to George II. 
 
 Arms; Russell, bearing, as for an heiress, argent , a lion rampant, gules, between 
 three pheons, sable, for Egerton. 
 
 WHOOD. 
 
 In his robes which he wore at the coronation of Queen 
 Anne. He was the elder son of Wriothesley, second 
 duke, and Elizabeth, duchess of Bedford, and husband to 
 the lady who succeeds. He was a great patron of Isaac 
 Whood, whom he engaged for many years, says Nichols, 
 before Woburn Abbey was rebuilt, in copying the por¬ 
 traits of the collateral relations of the family, being one 
 of the best artists for that task in the kingdom. Whood 
 was an intimate friend of the learned antiquaries. Gale 
 and Ducarel, a great humorist, and remarkable for his 
 happy application of passages in Hudibras, when he wished 
 for accessories to his own wit. 
 
 Wriothesley, third duke of Bedford, died at an early 
 age, without offspring, whereby the title devolved upon 
 Lord John Russell, his younger brother. 
 
 CLXXXIV. 
 
 ANNE, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 WHOOD. 
 
 The same as Nos. XXXIII., XXXVI., LXIV., and LXVI. 
 In her coronation robes, as a companion to the preceding. 
 
132 
 
 SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 CLXXXV. 
 
 FRANCIS, MARQUESS OF TAVISTOCK. 
 
 POMPEIO BATONI. 
 
 The same as Nos. LXXIII. and LXXVI., in the uniform 
 of the Bedfordshire militia of that day : painted at Rome 
 in 1762. 
 
 CLXXXVI. CLXXXVII. 
 
 LADY RACHEL AND LADY CATHERINE RUSSELL. 
 
 The former born a.d. 1674. Died a.d. 1725. 
 
 The latter born a.d. 1678. Died a.d. 1711.- Charles II. to George /. 
 
 Arms; Russell, as before, in lozenge. 
 
 KNELLER; the Flowers by VERELST. 
 
 The two surviving daughters of William, Lord Russell; 
 the former represented at the age of twelve years and a 
 half, two years before her marriage with William, Lord 
 Hartington, afterwards second Duke of Devonshire; the 
 latter at the age of nine years and three quarters, seven 
 years before her union with John, Lord Roos, afterwards 
 second Duke of Rutland. Various interesting particulars 
 are given of both in the published letters of their mother; 
 they were both parents of a numerous progeny, terminat¬ 
 ing in the existing representatives of the Cavendish and 
 Manners’ families. 
 
SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 133 
 
 CLXXXVIII. 
 
 ANNE, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 WHOOD. 
 
 In an oval; the same as No. CLXXXIV. &c. &c. 
 
 CLXXXIX. CXC. 
 
 WRIOTHESLEY, SECOND DUKE, AND ELIZABETH 
 DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Arms; Russell, as before, bearing, as an heiress, Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent , 2 
 bars, sable , in chief 3 lions rampant, of the last, for Howland ; 2 and 3, Gules , 
 a chevron engrailed, azure , between 3 falcons close, argent , for Child. 
 
 “ KNELLER, 1695.” 
 
 The former is the same personage as No. XXV.; the 
 latter the same as No. LVIII. Wriothesley, the second 
 duke of Bedford, whilst attached to the great principles 
 for which his father suffered, took a part of much mode¬ 
 ration in the public questions agitated during the reign 
 of Queen Anne: in private life he was devoted to 
 classical literature and agriculture. His mother. Lady 
 Russell, who was most tenderly attached to him, had the 
 misfortune to survive him many years. An admirable 
 moral letter to him, by that Christian heroine, written 
 about the time when this portrait was painted, may be 
 seen in Miss Berry’s life of her. The particulars of his 
 last moments are narrated also by Lady Russell, in a 
 letter to Lord Galway. He died of the small-pox; a 
 disease which had been so peculiarly fatal to the members 
 of this family, as to excite general remark. 
 
134 
 
 SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 CXCI. 
 
 ANNE, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 WHOOD. 
 
 Another repetition of Nos. CLXXXIV., CLXXXVIII., 
 &c. &c. 
 
 CXCII. 
 
 WRIOTHESLEY, THIRD DUKE OF BEDFORD. 
 
 WHOOD. 
 
 The same as No. CLXXXIII. In a morning gown, read¬ 
 ing. It is stated that at the period when this portrait 
 was painted, he had an aversion to sit for his picture, 
 and that the artist, of whose pencil it forms a highly 
 favourable specimen, took it, accordingly, by stealth. 
 
SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 135 
 
 CXCIII. 
 
 LADY GEORGIANA-CAROLINA CARTERET. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1717- Died a.d. - George /. to George III. 
 
 Arms ; those of Spencer, as before ; impaled with, Quarterly, 1 and 4, Gules , four 
 fusils in fesse, argent , for Carteret ; 2 and 3, three clarions, or claricords, or, 
 for Granville. 
 
 “ WHOOD. F. 1737.” 
 
 The daughter of John, first earl Granville, by Frances, 
 only daughter of Sir Robert Worsley, Bart., and married, 
 in the spring of 1734, to the Hon. John Spencer. This 
 alliance brought her naturally into close connexion with 
 the Duchess of Marlborough, who commends her happy 
 temper and good sense, and whilst professing not to 
 desire great beauties for her kindred, discovers every day 
 fresh charms in her new relation. She had, it appears, 
 though then but very young, the great daring to discard 
 the universal fashion of the times, and to wear her auburn 
 ringlets unsullied by the absurdity of foreign art. “ One 
 thing I will tell you,” writes the duchess, with amusing 
 gravity, “ which you will hardly believe, but it is really 
 true , that she looks much better without any powder. 
 And, if you remember, a great many of the old pictures 
 are dressed in golden locks. I told her that I liked her 
 better than ever I had done before; and she answered, 
 that Mr. Spencer was of the same mind.” 
 
136 
 
 SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 CXCIV. 
 
 JOHN HOWLAND, Esq. OF STREATHAM. 
 
 Born a.d_ Died a.d. Sept. 2, 1686 _ Charles I. to James II. 
 
 Arms; Argent , 2 bars, sable , in chief, 3 lions rampant, gules , for Howland ; and as 
 an heiress, Gules , a chevron, engrailed, ermine , between 3 eagles close, argent, for 
 Child. 
 
 RILEY. 
 
 The son of Geffrey Howland, Esq., lord of the manor of 
 Tooting-Bec, in Surrey, and son-in-law of the succeeding 
 personage, by marriage, in 1681, with Elizabeth, his sole 
 daughter and co-heiress by his first wife, Anne, or Hannah, 
 daughter of Edward Boat, Esq., of Portsmouth. He was 
 the father of Elizabeth, duchess of Bedford: and has a 
 monument of blue and white marble in Streatham church, 
 erected by that lady, who survived him several years. 
 
 cxcv. 
 
 SIR JOSIAH CHILD, Bart. 
 
 Born a.d. 1630. Died a.d. 1699 - Charles I. to William and Mary. 
 
 Arms ; Gules , a chevron engrailed, ermine , between 3 eagles close, argent. 
 RILEY. 
 
 The eminent British merchant, author of a well-known 
 Treatise upon Trade and Commerce. He was the second 
 son of Richard Child, of London, by Elizabeth, daughter 
 
 of-Roycroft, Esq. of Weston’s-wick, in Shropshire. 
 
 He was created a baronet in 1685; and lies interred at 
 Wanstead, where a sumptuous monument is raised to his 
 memory, bearing on a pedestal his effigies as large as life. 
 
SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 137 
 
 CXCVI. 
 
 MRS. HOWLAND, OF STREATHAM. 
 
 The same as No. LXVIII. a copy, probably, by Whood. 
 
 CXCVII. 
 
 HON. JOHN SPENCER. 
 
 Born a.d. 1708. Died a.d. 1746.- Q. Anne to George II. 
 
 Arms; Spencer, as before; impaled with, Quarterly, 1 and 4, gules , 4 fusils in 
 fesse, argent , for Carteret; 2 and 3, three clarions, or claricords, or, for 
 Granville. 
 
 “ WHOOD, F. 1737.” 
 
 The fourth son of Charles, third earl of Sunderland, by 
 his second wife. Lady Anne Churchill. He became heir 
 to Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, to whose office of 
 Keeper of the Great Park at Windsor he succeeded, the 
 only favour from the crown which her court enmities 
 permitted him to take. The present picture was probably 
 a copy after Zeeman, who, in 1734, painted his portrait 
 for the Duchess of Marlborough, “ in an odious periwig, 
 full of powder, which she of all things hated,” and she 
 consequently had it altered. She describes him as good- 
 natured, sensible, and frank of disposition; as amusing 
 himself much with his pheasants, fish-ponds, and other 
 rural sports; and as being always dressed like a keeper or 
 a farmer — traits, in all probability, quite characteristic of 
 his habits and pursuits. His early death w T as, however, 
 extensively regretted, for he undoubtedly possessed great 
 private worth and public spirit. By his marriage with 
 Lady Georgiana Carteret, he became grandfather to 
 George-John, the present Earl Spencer. 
 
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183 
 
 SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 CXCVIII. 
 
 WILLIAM, LORD RUSSELL. 
 
 RILEY. 
 
 The same as Nos. LXXX. and CCXYII1. 
 
 CXCIX. 
 
 LORD EDWARD RUSSELL. 
 
 Born a.d. 1643. Died a.d. 1714 - Charles II. to George I. 
 
 Arms; Argent , a lion rampant gules , on a chief sable , 3 escallops of the field, for 
 Russell; impaled with gules, a chevron argent, between 3 Saxons’ heads, in 
 profile, couped, proper, for Williams. 
 
 RILEY. ' 
 
 Fourth son of William, fifth earl, and Anne, countess 
 of Bedford. In 1660-2 he made the tour of the conti¬ 
 nent. In 1669 the Countess of Pembroke entered in 
 her diary the following precise account of a visit which 
 he paid her : " The 5th of this June did my cousin and 
 
 god-son, Mr. Edward Russell, come from his father s 
 house at Woburn, in Bedfordshire, into this Appleby 
 Castle, in Westmoreland, late in the evening, so as I saw 
 him not till the next morning, that he came up into my 
 chamber to me, where I kissed him; it being the first 
 time I ever saw him in any part of the lands of my 
 inheritance, or that ever he was so far northward, though 
 his elder brother, William, had been with me before in 
 Pendragon Castle, in June 1666. And this Mr. Edward 
 Russell now lay here in the baron’s chamber for ten 
 
SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 139 
 
 nights together; in which time he went to see my castles 
 of Brough, Brougham, and Pendragon, and other the 
 chief places of this county.* And on Thursday, the 15th, 
 in the morning, after he had taken his leave of me, he 
 went away from hence by Brough and over Stainmore, and 
 those ways, though in his journey hither he came by 
 Lancaster and Kendal; and so went now onwards on his 
 journey home towards the said Woburn House, whither 
 he came safe to his father and mother, and some other 
 of their children.” 
 
 He married, four years after his brother’s execution, 
 Frances, daughter of Sir Robert Williams of Penryn; 
 but his children by this lady both died in the flower of 
 their youth. He was a popular member of parliament, 
 being nine times elected knight of the shire for the 
 county of Bedford: he filled also the office of Lord- 
 Lieutenant of Middlesex during the minority of his 
 nephew, Wriothesley, second duke of Bedford. 
 
 * Amongst the curiosities which the countess generally sent her guests 
 to view was the Hartshorn-tree, “ near the pale of Whinfell Park,” 
 an ancient oak, so called from having nailed to it the antlers of a stag, 
 
 1 which had been hunted to the death by Edward Baliol, king of Scotland, 
 in 1333, when, by permission of Edward the Third, he was there upon a 
 visit to her ancestor Robert, lord Clifford. By the swelling of the bark, 
 they grew, as it were, naturally in the tree, until the year 1648, when one 
 was wantonly broken down by the soldiers of the army ; and the other 
 was destroyed as mischievously, during the night, in the summer of 1658 : 
 “ So as now,” writes the countess, with true antiquarian regret, “ there 
 is no part thereof remaining ; the tree itself being so decayed, and the 
 bark of it so peeled off, that it cannot last long; whereby we may see 
 that time brings to forgetfulness many memorable things in this world, be 
 they never so carefully preserved ; for this tree with the hart’s horns in it 
 was a thing of much note in these parts. — Ecclesiastes, ch. 3.” 
 
140 
 
 SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 cc. 
 
 SIR SAMUEL LUKE. 
 
 Flourished a.d. 1G30-1G70.- Charles I. to Charles II. 
 
 Arms; as in the succeeding page ; Luke quarteiing Launcelyn, impaled with 
 ' Freeman. 
 
 WALKER. 
 
 A name which has attained peculiar celebrity as the 
 presumed original of Butler’s “ Hudibras,” an assumption 
 which, from the evidence given by the authors of the 
 " Biographia Britannica,” there seems no just ground for 
 questioning. Sir Samuel was a descendant of Sir Walter 
 Luke, Justice of the Common Pleas, and of Anne Laun- 
 celyn, nurse to Henry VIII.: his father was Sir Oliver 
 Luke, parliamentary scout-master for Bedfordshire, and 
 some adjacent counties, during the Civil Wars; and 
 Sir Samuel also held a commission under Cromwell. A 
 rigid Presbyterian, he vowed that he would wear his 
 beard unshorn till the nation was cleared of king and 
 bishops; and is said to have actually worn the “ grizzly 
 meteor” till the vow was accomplished: notwithstanding 
 which, there is evefy reason for supposing that he was 
 far from approving of the king’s trial and execution, 
 inasmuch as both he and his father were amongst the 
 Secluded Members. 
 
 The family manor-house, at Wood-end, near Cople, 
 in Bedfordshire, now occupied as a farm-house, in the 
 possession of the Duke of Bedford, is still standing, 
 in which the knight of the basket-hilt discoursed “ his 
 holy texts of pike and gun,” and where the facetious poet, 
 his domestic, “ hitched them into rhyme.” 
 
SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 141 
 
 CCI. 
 
 ELIZABETH, LADY LUKE. 
 
 Flourished a.d. 1650. 
 
 Arms ; Quarterly ; 1 and 4, Argent, a bug'le-horn, sable, for Luke ; 2 and 3, gules, a 
 fleur-de-lys, argent, for Launcelyn ; impaled with Azure, 3 lozenges, argent, 
 for Freeman. 
 
 WALKER. 
 
 She was the daughter of William Freeman, of London, 
 merchant, and of Layston, Herts, and wife of the pre¬ 
 ceding knight; but nothing further is known of her 
 personal history. As Butler makes his hero enamoured 
 of a widow’s jointure, it is no improbable supposition that 
 she was both a widow and an heiress when she first 
 attracted the homage of Sir Samuel Luke. Her buxom 
 and exuberant beauty, although it is to be hoped the 
 index of a gentler mind than that of the poet’s heroine,* 
 is precisely such as may be supposed to have inspired 
 the satire conveyed in the high-flown courtship of Sir 
 Hudibras :— 
 
 “ The sun and day shall sooner part, 
 
 Than love, or you shake off my heart; 
 
 I’ll carve your name on barks of trees, 
 
 With true-love knots and flourishes, 
 
 * “ She had a thousand jadish tricks, 
 
 Worse than a mule that flings and kicks; 
 ’Mong which one cross-grained freak she had, 
 As insolent as strange and mad,— 
 
 She could love none but only such 
 As scorned and hated her as much.” 
 
 Hud. canto 3. 
 
142 
 
 SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 That shall infuse eternal spring, 
 
 And everlasting flourishing; 
 
 Drink every letter on’t in stum, 
 
 And make it brisk champagne become. 
 Where’er you tread, your foot shall set 
 The primrose and the violet; 
 
 All spices, perfumes, and sweet powders, 
 Shall borrow from your breath their odours ; 
 Nature her charter shall renew, 
 
 And take all lives of things from you ; 
 
 The world depend upon your eye, 
 
 And when you frown upon it, die. 
 
 Only our loves shall still survive, 
 
 New worlds and natures to outlive, 
 
 And, like to heralds’ moons, remain, 
 
 All crescents, without change or wane.— 
 Madam, I do, as is my duty, 
 
 Honour the shadow of your shoe-tye !” 
 
 CCII. 
 
 MARY, DUCHESS OF BUCKINGHAM. 
 
 Born a.d. 1G39. Died a.d. 1705- Charles I. to Q. Anne. 
 
 Arms; Argent, on a cross, gules , 5 escallops, or, for Villiers ; and, as an heiress, 
 Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent, 3 bars gemelles, gules, a lion rampant, sable, for 
 Fairfax ; 2 and 3, Quarterly, gules and or, in the first quarter a mullet, argent, 
 for Vere. 
 
 X WALKER. 
 
 The only daughter and heiress of Thomas, lord Fairfax 
 of Cameron, the famous parliamentary general, and Anne, 
 daughter and coheir of Horace, lord Vere of Tilbury, so 
 well known to our sympathy by her published memoirs. 
 
SOUTH CORRIDOR. 
 
 143 
 
 She is described by Bryan Fairfax as a most amiable 
 woman. The circumstance of her father’s having had 
 allotted to him, in payment of the arrears due to him as 
 general, a considerable part of the confiscated estate of 
 George Yilliers, the second duke of Buckingham, seems 
 to have inspired this nobleman with the idea of laying 
 siege to her affections : for which purpose he came over 
 to England from his place of exile; and being possessed 
 of a handsome presence and most graceful manners, and 
 his reputation being yet unstained with many of those 
 vices which afterwards disgraced him, she quickly listened 
 to his suit. She was married to him in 1657; and Cowley, 
 who had lived with the duke in habits of familiar friend¬ 
 ship, wrote their epithalamium. 
 
 The Proteus character of her husband,— rake, “ chy- 
 mist, gamester, fiddler, and buffoon,” has been inimitably 
 drawn by Pope and Dryden. His duchess, however, bore 
 with exemplary patience the profligacy which her virtues 
 could not correct; and permitted neither his scandalous 
 excesses, nor his gross neglect of her, to weaken her faith¬ 
 ful attachment to his person. On one occasion, during 
 an illness that was likely to prove fatal to her, she was 
 visited by her careless husband; who, assuming a tone of 
 tenderness, and requesting her to live, if only for his sake, 
 the unaccustomed words of kindness revived the wasting 
 energies of nature, and their unmeant magic restored her 
 to renovated health. In the midst of a corrupt and venal 
 court, she lived untainted and respected; and survived 
 for several years the wretched end of her mercurial lord, 
 dying in 1705, at the age of sixty-six. 
 
FIRST COMPARTMENT, R. H. 
 
 147 
 
 CCIII. 
 
 AMBROSE DUDLEY, EARL OF WARWICK. 
 
 Born a.d.-- Died a.d. 1589.- Henry VIII. to Q- Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms ; Or, a lion rampant, vert, tail forked, for Dudley,— impaled with Argent, a 
 lion rampant, gules , on a chief, sable, 3 escallops of the field, for Russell. 
 
 SIR ANTONIO MORE. 
 
 Son of the ambitious John, duke of Northumberland, by 
 Jane, daughter of Sir Edward Guildford, and brother both 
 of the unfortunate Lord Guildford Dudley, and of Robert, 
 earl of Leicester. He was Queen Elizabeth’s lieutenant 
 at Havre, when that port was committed to her keeping; 
 and he defended it so heroically, when besieged by the 
 Connetable de Montmorenci, that the queen compli¬ 
 mented him by declaring that she would rather part with 
 her most needful finger, and drink out of an ashen cup, 
 than that he should fail of succour. Her stout heart was, 
 however, obliged in the end to succumb to the force of 
 circumstances; but the town was yielded only at her 
 especial order, and on the most honourable conditions. 
 He married, for his third wife. Lady Anne Russell, eldest 
 daughter of Francis, second earl of Bedford, whose por¬ 
 trait occurs more than once or twice in this collection. 
 
148 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCIV. 
 
 THOMAS RATCLIFFE, THIRD EARL OF SUSSEX. 
 
 Born a.d. _ Died a.d. 1583- Henry VIII. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 Urgent ; Argent, a bend engrailed, sable , for Radcliffe, impaled with Azure, a cross, 
 or, between four falcons close, argent, for Wrtothesley. 
 
 Eldest son of Henry, second earl of the same title, by 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, duke of Norfolk, the 
 celebrated rival of Dudley, earl of Leicester, whom he 
 as much excelled in magnanimity and integrity as he fell 
 short of him in suppleness and political intrigue. The 
 animosity attendant on their feud continued to his last 
 sickness; when, addressing his friends, he is reported by 
 Naunton to have said—“ I am now passing into another 
 world, and I must leave you to your fortunes, and the 
 queen’s grace and goodness : but beware of the gipsey,”— 
 meaning Leicester,— “ for he will be too hard for you: 
 — you know not the beast so well as I do !” 
 
 He married, for his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Thomas Wriothesley, first earl of Southampton. 
 
FIRST COMPARTMENT, R. H. 
 
 149 
 
 CCV. 
 
 JOHN RUSSELL, FIRST EARL OF BEDFORD. 
 
 HOLBEIN. 
 
 The same as No. II., in the sunset of his career. 
 
 CCVI. 
 
 FRANCIS MANNERS, SIXTH EARL OF RUTLAND. 
 
 Born a.d. 1588. Died A.D. 1632 - Q. Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 Arms; Or, two bars, azure , a chief, quarterly, of the second, and gules the 1 and 4 
 charged with two fleurs-de-lys of the_/irs£, and the 2 and 3 with a lion passant 
 guardant, of the same, for Manners ; impaled with argent, a bend within a 
 bordure engrailed, sable, for Knevet. 
 
 MARK GARRARD. 
 
 Second son of John, fourth earl of Rutland, by Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Francis Charlton, of Apely Castle, Shrop¬ 
 shire. After visiting France, Italy, and Germany, and 
 being honourably entertained at the courts of Vienna 
 and Berlin, as well as by the principal nobility in Ger¬ 
 many, Austria, and Lorrain, he was made knight of the 
 Bath and Garter by James I., who deputed him in 1616 
 to attend him into Scotland; and in 1623 appointed him 
 to the command of the royal ships which brought back 
 Prince Charles from his wild-goose flight to Spain. 
 
 He married, for his first wife, Frances, daughter and 
 co-heir to Sir Henry Knevet, of Charlton, Wiltshire. 
 
150 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCVII. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL, afterwards FIRST DUKE 
 OF BEDFORD. 
 
 The same as Nos. CXXIX. and CCXIII. : in his robes 
 of the Bath, with a dwarf attendant, aged thirty-two. 
 Painted in the fourteenth year of his age, a.d. 1627, by 
 John Priwitzer, a Hungarian artist of great merit, but of 
 whose pencil no other specimens are known than those 
 in this collection. 
 
 CCVIII. 
 
 LADY ANNE AYSCOUGIL 
 
 Flourished a.d. 1550-1580. • Edward VI. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms; Sable , a fesse or between 3 asses passant, argent , for Ayscougii ; impaled 
 with Argent , 6 cross-crosslets fitchee, sable, on a chief azure , 2 mullets or, pierced 
 gules, for Clinton. 
 
 CORNELIUS KETEL. 
 
 Daughter of Edward Clinton, first earl of Lincoln, by 
 his second wife, Ursula, daughter of William, lord 
 Stourton. She married William, son and heir to Sir 
 Francis Ayscough, of Kelsey, in Lincolnshire, which is 
 all that can now be gathered of her history. 
 
FIRST COMPARTMENT, R. H. 
 
 151 
 
 CCIX. 
 
 SIR EDWARD ROGERS, ;et. 69. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1500. Died a.d. 1582 - Henry VIII. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , a chevron between three bucks in full course, sable. 
 
 SIR ANTONIO MORE. 
 
 Of a family settled at Connington, in Somersetshire. 
 Steadily attached to the principles of the Reformation, 
 he was under the necessity of flying into France to 
 escape the persecution kindled by the bigots of the 
 council-chamber of Queen Mary; and resided some time 
 at Geneva, with the many illustrious compatriots who 
 had been the partners of his peril and escape. On 
 the accession, however, of Elizabeth, he was sworn a 
 privy-counsellor, and filled the honourable situation of 
 Comptroller of her household from 1558 to 1565 , when 
 he resigned his wand of office to Sir James Crofts. 
 The present venerable portrait of him was taken four 
 years after, when he had attained to nearly the allotted 
 period of threescore years and ten: yet he survived 
 that incident for thirteen years longer, dying in 1582 . 
 
152 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 ccx. 
 
 COUNT DE NASSAU. 
 
 Date of birth and death unknown. - Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly; 1, Azure, billett^e or, a lion rampant of the last, for Nassau ; 2, 
 Or, a lion rampant, gules; 3, gules, a fesse, argent, for Vianen ; 4, Gules, 2 
 lions passant guardant in pale, or, for Dietz : on the centre an escocheon, quar¬ 
 terly ; 1 and 4, gules, a bend argent; 2 and 3, or, a bugle-horn, sable ; over all 
 an inescocheon, argent, charged with a cross quarterly, voided, sable. 
 
 The above is the blazon of the shield painted in the 
 picture, and as the arms are ascertained to be those of 
 the Counts of Nassau-Uranien-Nassau, the personage 
 represented by the painting was doubtless of that honour¬ 
 able house. He is tall and spare in person, with high 
 cheek bones, dressed in black, a black Geneva cap, and 
 a ruff of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and holds a 
 letter in his hand, inscribed Nasseau. 
 
FIRST COMPARTMENT, L. H. 
 
 153 
 
 CCXI. 
 
 HENRY PERCY, 
 
 NINTH EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 
 
 Born a.d- Died a.d. 1632 - Q. Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 Arms ; Quarterly, 1 and 4, Azure, 5 fusils in fesse, or, for Percy; 2 and 3, Or, a 
 lion rampant, azure, for Brabant ; impaled with argent, a'fesse, gules, in chief 
 three torteaux, for Devereux. 
 
 MIREVELT. 
 
 Son of Henry, eighth earl of that title, by Katharine, 
 eldest daughter and co-heir of John, lord Latimer. The 
 services which he rendered Queen Elizabeth in the Low 
 Countries under the Earl of Leicester, and in the defeat 
 of the Spanish Armada, could not protect him from the 
 suspicions of her successor; for, receiving his kinsman 
 Thomas, one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators into his 
 house, he was immured in the Tower for upwards of 
 fifteen years. Whilst there he devoted himself so assi¬ 
 duously to mathematical science, and the conversation of 
 learned men, as to acquire the soubriquet of “ Henry 
 the Wizard. His liberation was celebrated, says Cam¬ 
 den, with much joy, by the discharge of the great guns, 
 which indicates the popular estimation in which his cha¬ 
 racter was held. 
 
 There is a well-received tradition, that on Vandyck’s 
 first arrival in England in 1630, soon after this release, 
 the neglected artist found a ready patron in the earl, 
 whose portrait he has painted. Dorothy, daughter of 
 Walter Devereux, earl of Essex, and widow of Sir Thomas 
 Perrot, was the wife of Henry, ninth earl of Northum¬ 
 berland. 
 
 x 
 
154 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCXII. 
 
 HENRY DANVERS, EARL OF DANBY. 
 
 Born a.d. 1572. Died a.d. 1644. - Q. Elizabeth to Charles T. 
 
 Arms; Gules, a chevron between 3 mullets of six points, or. 
 
 MIREVELT. 
 
 Son of Sir John Danvers, and of Elizabeth, daughter of 
 John Neville, lord Latimer. He passed his life in the 
 camp. By his valour in the Low Countries he won the 
 favour of Prince Maurice, and by his military services in 
 France, the high regard of Henry the Fourth. In Ireland 
 he distinguished himself under the Earl of Essex and 
 Lord Mountjoy. James I. made him a baron; Charles I. 
 an earl, a privy-counsellor, and knight of the garter. 
 Besides his military glory, he enjoyed the happier dis¬ 
 tinction of having founded the physic-garden at Oxford. 
 Another whole-length portrait of him was in the Houghton 
 collection, painted with his robes of the garter; “ his 
 amiable aged countenance,” says Walpole, “ being dig¬ 
 nified, not contrasted by the scar from a wound on his 
 temple.” He died at Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, in 
 1644, unmarried, full of honour and of days. 
 
FIRST COMPARTMENT, L. H. 
 
 155 
 
 CCXIII. 
 
 WILLIAM RUSSELL, FIFTH EARL, AND FIRST DUKE 
 OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born a.d. 1613. Died a.d. 1700 - James I. to Q. Anne. 
 
 Arms ; those of Russell, as before ; and, as an heiress, Gules, on a chevron, argent, 
 3 mullets, sable, in the dexter part of the escutcheon, a lion passant guardant, or, 
 for Carr. 
 
 KNELLER. 
 
 In his robes of the garter. He was the eldest son of 
 Francis, fourth earl of Bedford, and Katharine his lady; 
 but is better known in history as the venerable father of 
 William, lord Russell, whose death he would have averted 
 at the sacrifice of his whole fortune, pathetically assuring 
 Charles II. that he would think himself happy to be left 
 only with bread and water, so that a life so invaluable 
 might be spared to him. He was one of the few noble¬ 
 men who sought to couple the return of Charles II. with 
 conditions that might have guaranteed to the nation the 
 secure enjoyment of its civil and religious liberties, of 
 which he continued to be a steady and consistent advo¬ 
 cate. His “ sweetness and benignity of disposition,’’ 
 beneficence, and piety, are highly spoken of by his con¬ 
 temporaries : for his own unblemished patriotism, as well 
 as “ to console him for the loss of his inestimable son,” 
 he was raised to the dukedom by King William, in 1694. 
 He died at the advanced age of eighty-seven. 
 
156 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCXIV. 
 
 LADY MARGARET GREY, jet. 40. 
 
 Born a.d. 1549. Died a.d. 1601.- Edward VI. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms ; in lozenge, Barry of six, argent and azure , 3 torteaux in chief. 
 
 This lady is erroneously stated by Lord Orford to have 
 been the wife of Sir Anthony Cooke, tutor to Edward the 
 Sixth, and mother of the five learned daughters. Lady 
 Burleigh, Lady Bacon, Lady Hobby (afterwards Lady 
 Russell), Mrs. Killigrew, and Lady Roulett. But it must 
 be observed, that the mother of those ladies was the 
 daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam, whilst the heraldic 
 shield in the corner of this picture is that of an unmar¬ 
 ried lady, bearing the arms of Grey, with a crescent for 
 difference, indicating the daughter of a second son: and 
 none of the Greys appear to have married, at that period, 
 into the family of Cooke. 
 
 The only lady that would seem to reconcile these dis¬ 
 crepancies was Margaret, daughter of Thomas, lord Grey, 
 second son of Thomas, second marquess of Dorset, and 
 wife of Sir John Astley of Maidstone, master of the jewel- 
 office to Queen Elizabeth. She was cousin to the Lady 
 Jane Grey, and died in the year 1601. 
 
FIRST COMPARTMENT. SOUTH END. 
 
 157 
 
 CCXV. 
 
 GEORGE MONK, DUKE OF ALBEMARLE. 
 
 Born a.d. 1608. Died a.d. 1670.- James I. to Charles II. 
 
 Arms ; Gules, a chevron between 3 lions’ heads, erased, argent. 
 
 The hero of the Restoration, successfully accomplished 
 through the wary secresy of sentiment which he main¬ 
 tained. Yet there were a few old politicians who early 
 penetrated into his designs; for “ when Harry Martin,” 
 say the Birch MSS.* “ was leaving England to live in 
 Holland, in March 1659, he went to take his leave of 
 Monk, and asked him whether he would set up a kingly 
 government or a commonwealth?” This was after the 
 militia was settling. “ A commonwealth,” said Monk. 
 Said Martin, “ I’ll tell you a story. I met a man with a 
 saw, a pickaxe, and a hatchet, and asked him what he 
 was about to do with those tools. He said, ' I’m going 
 to take measure of a gentleman, to make him a suit of 
 clothes.’ Apply it yourself. It is as likely that you will 
 set up a commonwealth with your ways, as he to make 
 a suit with those implements.” 
 
 General Monk was the second son of Sir Thomas 
 Monk, of Potheridge, Devon, by Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Sir George Smith, of Madworth, in the same county. 
 He married his mistress, Anne Clarges, the daughter of 
 a blacksmith, a woman of ungovernable temper, whose 
 tongue is said to have often proved more formidable to 
 him than the cannon of the enemy in the field of battle. 
 
 * Had. MSS. App. Vol. 991. Birch MSS. 4164. 
 
158 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCXVI. 
 
 THOMAS KILLIGREW. 
 
 Born a.d. 1611. Died a.d. 1682. - James I. to Charles II. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , an eagle displayed with two necks, sable, within a bordure of the second, 
 bezanty, for Killigrew; impaled with, Or, 3 bulls’ heads, couped, sable, for 
 Crofts. 
 
 SHEPPARD. 
 
 Wit and humourist in the court of Charles the Second. 
 He was a son of Robert Killigrew, of Hanworth, Mid¬ 
 dlesex, and married Cecilia, sister of William, lord Crofts, 
 of Saxham, Suffolk, maid of honour to the queen. He 
 was originally page of honour to Charles I., whose for¬ 
 tunes he followed till the monarch’s death, when he 
 transferred his attendance to his son. In 1651 he was 
 sent to Venice in the quality of resident, where his chief 
 business was to raise money for the prince’s necessities; 
 but the scandal which he gave to the Venetians by his 
 gross irregularities, obliged him in the end to leave the 
 States with some precipitancy. On the Restoration, he 
 became so familiar a favourite with this prince, that the 
 latter often refused access to his ministers on the most 
 important business whilst engaged in the levities of his 
 amusing conversation. He wrote several comedies in 
 the taste of the times, which are enlivened by but little 
 of the wit which is said to have sparkled in his discourse, 
 and which rendered him the privileged buffoon* and 
 mimic of a court that was every day sinking more deeply 
 into sloth, sensuality, and despotism. 
 
 * Pepys, in his Diary, under the year 1667, gives this characteristic 
 notice of him. “ Tom Killigrew hath a fee out of the wardrobe for cap 
 and bells, under the title of king’s fool or jester, and may revile and 
 jeere any body, the greatest person, without offence, by the privilege of 
 his place.” 
 
FIRST COMPARTMENT, S. E. 
 
 159 
 
 CCXVII. 
 
 QUEEN JANE SEYMOUR. 
 
 Born a.d-- Died, a.d. 1537.- Henry VIII. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly, France and England, for King Henry VIII.: and for Sey¬ 
 mour, Quarterly, 1 and 4, Or, on a pile gules, between 6 fleurs-de-lys sable, 
 3 lions passant guardant, of the first; 2 and 3, Gules, 2 wings conjoined in lure, 
 points in base, or. 
 
 HOLBEIN. 
 
 Eldest of the four daughters of Sir John Seymour, of 
 Wolfe Hall, Wiltshire, by Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas 
 Wentworth, of Nettlestede, Suffolk. She was the fa¬ 
 vourite, but not the least unfortunate of the queens of 
 Henry VIII. Her death, after she had been considered 
 out of danger, touched the heart of her capricious hus¬ 
 band to the quick,—he shut himself up in his palace, and 
 lamented her with bitter tears. The Earl of Bedford 
 used to say of her, that she was more majestic, though 
 less lovely than Anne Boleyn, and that, contrary to her, 
 who seemed the more charming the more plainly she 
 was dressed, Jane Seymour looked the fairest when her 
 person was set off by sparkling jewels and embroidered 
 garments. 
 
160 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCXVIII. 
 
 WILLIAM, LORD RUSSELL. 
 
 Born a.d. 1039. Died a.d. 1683. - Charles I. to Charles II. 
 
 Arms; Russell, as before; and, as an heiress, Azure , a cross, or, between four 
 falcons close, argent , for Wbiotiiesley. 
 
 KNELLER. 
 
 The second son of William, fifth earl, and Anne, countess 
 of Bedford :—a name so familiar to the minds and memo¬ 
 ries of Englishmen, that after transcribing it, it is suffi¬ 
 cient for a commentator merely to recur to the appro¬ 
 priate motto, “ Cetera Faivle,” which is engrossed upon 
 the painting. 
 
 Above the picture is placed the cane with which he 
 ascended to the scaffold on the morning of his execution, 
 —a relic reviving a thousand mingled associations on the 
 judicial murder of this great martyr to liberty. He 
 yielded up his life to his infuriate enemies on the 21st of 
 July, 1683. 
 
FIRST COMPARTMENT, S. E. 
 
 161 
 
 CCXIX. 
 
 RACHEL, LADY RUSSELL. 
 
 Born a.T) • 1037. Died a.d. 1723 - Charles I. to Georqe II. 
 
 Arms , the same as the preceding. 
 
 The second daughter and coheiress of Thomas, fourth 
 earl, and Rachel de Rouvigny, countess of Southampton : 
 at an advanced period of life, in a deep mourning dress, 
 and leaning upon a coffin — the image of which appears 
 to have been rarely absent from her mind, from the 
 terrible hour when she had to bewail her husband’s exe¬ 
 cution to that in which the admirable sufferer, after 
 exhibiting to the world for forty years the perfect model 
 of a Christian heroine, sank to rest from her earthly 
 trials, or rather ascended to that celestial region upon 
 which she had long concentred all her hopes. 
 
 Y 
 
102 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 ccxx. 
 
 JAMES SCOTT, DUKE OF BUCCLEUGH AND 
 MONMOUTH. 
 
 Born a.d. 1049. Died a.d. 1005 _ Charles I. to James II. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly; 1 and 4, England and France, quarterly; 2, Scotland; 
 0, Ireland; over all, a baton sinister, argent ; and, as an heiress, or, a bend, 
 azure , charged with a star of six points, between 2 crescents of the field, for 
 Scott, Countess of Buccleugh. 
 
 The unfortunate son of Charles II. by Lucy, daughter of 
 Richard Walters, of Haverford-West. “ Nature,” says 
 Grammont, “ never perhaps formed any thing so perfect 
 as the external graces of his person a description in 
 perfect accordance with the eulogy of Dryden.* 
 
 ITis quarrel with the Duke of York placed him, with 
 the title of the Protestant Duke, at the head of the 
 party most inimical to that prince’s interests : yet, after 
 the death of Russell and Sidney, towards the former of 
 whom he acted with the greatest magnanimity, it is not 
 probable that he would have ventured on the ill-starred 
 expedition which cost him his life, if James had not 
 evinced a resolution to follow him with interminable 
 vengeance into his retreat abroad. The magic of his 
 popularity was rendered unavailing by the panic of Lord 
 Grey in battle ; and his execution, July 15, 1685, closed 
 the disastrous and imprudent attempt in which he had 
 embarked. 
 
 * “ Whate’er he did was done with so much ease, 
 
 In him alone ’twas natural to please; 
 
 * His motions all accompanied with grace, 
 
 And Paradise was opened in his face.” 
 
CENTRAL COMPARTMENT, R. H. 
 
 163 
 
 CCXXI. 
 
 JAMES HAY, SECOND EARL OF CARLISLE. 
 
 Born a.d. 1009. Died a.d. 1GG0 - James I. to Charles II. 
 
 Arms; Argent , 9 escutcheons, gules, for Hay ; impaled with Russell. 
 
 WALKER. 
 
 The only son, by his first wife, Honora, daughter of 
 Edward, lord Denny, of that eccentric nobleman of the 
 same name and title, who eclipsed in splendid extrava¬ 
 gance all other courtiers of James the First. In the Civil 
 War, he took his first stand upon the royal side, and 
 
 was as prodigal of his estate to serve his sovereign and 
 his friends in the time of war, as his father had been in 
 feastings, masques, and other arts of peace.” But having 
 married Margaret, sister of William, fifth earl of Bedford, 
 he appears in 1645 to have entered so fully into that 
 nobleman’s causes of discontent with the court, as to 
 have sent in with him, in the April of that year, his 
 adherence to the Parliament. He associated afterwards 
 with his brother-in-law and a few others, in their attempt 
 to couple the recall of Charles II. with effective gua¬ 
 rantees. He had not the satisfaction of seeing this ac¬ 
 complished, and died in the year of the Restoration, 
 1660, without offspring, whereby the earldom became ex¬ 
 tinct.* Lloyd describes him as of a most bountiful 
 disposition, “ giving what he could save from his enemies 
 in largesses to his friends, especially the learned clergy, 
 
 * There is a portrait of him, as a boy of seven years old, at Petworth, 
 with a hat and feather in his hand, painted in 1616 , by Gerard Ilonthorst. 
 
164 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 whose prayers and good converse he reckoned much 
 upon, as they did upon his charities. His courtesy was 
 not affected, but naturally made up of an humility that 
 secured him from envy, and a civility that kept him in 
 esteem. He was happy in an expression that was high 
 and not formal; and a language that was courtly, and 
 yet real.” 
 
 CCXXII. 
 
 SIR EDWARD STRADLING, Bart. 
 
 Flourished a.d. 156G-1G40. 
 
 Arms ; Paly of six, argent and azure , on a bend, gules , 2 cinquefoils, or. 
 
 DOBSON. 
 
 Of an honourable and ancient family, which, in the reign 
 of Henry the Sixth, held various possessions in the coun¬ 
 ties of Dorset and Gloucester, in right of their ancestress. 
 Dame Joanna Stradling, widow of Sir Maurice Russell. 
 Sir Edward, however, resided at St. Donat’s, in Glamor¬ 
 ganshire, which Lloyd, in his time, describes as one of the 
 noblest seats in all Wales. Marrying in 1566, he was 
 afterwards knighted, and created a baronet by James I. 
 On the breaking out of the Civil Wars, he took, with 
 three of his brothers, the side of the monarch, each being 
 colonel of a regiment in his service. “ Very forward 
 were they,” says the same authority, “ in raising that 
 county for his majesty, and in eminent trust— command¬ 
 ing it, under him, much to the satisfaction of the people— 
 more of the gentry. Good guardians of antiquity, faithful 
 in keeping monuments thereof, and courteous in commu¬ 
 nicating them. A family to whom a septenary number 
 was happy ; a nonary, fatal.” 
 
CENTRAL COMPARTMENT, R. H. 
 
 165 
 
 CCXXIII. 
 
 ELIZABETH, LADY BINLOS. 
 
 Flourished a.d. 1010 _ James I. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly, per fesse indented, or and gules, on a bend, azure, a cinquefoil 
 between 2 martlets, or, for Binlos; impaled with Quarterly, 1 and 4, argent, a 
 fesse dancette, sable , for West ; 2 and 3, gules, semee of cross-crosslets, fi tehee, 
 and a lion rampant, argent, for De la Warb. 
 
 Wife of Sir Francis Binlos, of Borwick, near Lancaster, 
 and daughter of Henry West, lord De la Warr, by Isa¬ 
 bella, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Edmonds, 
 treasurer of the household to Charles the First, and 
 several times ambassador to foreign courts. 
 
 9 
 
 CCXXIV. 
 
 ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF SOUTHAMPTON. 
 
 Flourished a.d. 1580. - Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 Anns ; W riotiiesley, as before, impaled with argent, a fret, sable, for Vernon. 
 
 CORNELIUS JANSEN. 
 
 Upon the back is the following inscription, in Rachel, 
 lady Russell’s hand-writing :—“ Elizabeth Vernon, wife to 
 my grandfather, Henry, earl of Southampton.” After 
 passing into the possession of Elizabeth, countess of 
 Harcourt, the picture was presented in 1832 to the Duke 
 of Bedford by George Flarcourt, Esq., M. P. for the 
 county of Oxford. 
 
 Elizabeth, countess of Southampton, was daughter of 
 
166 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 John Vernon, Esq., of Hodnet, Derbyshire, and mo¬ 
 ther of Penelope, lady Spencer, No. XLIX. She was 
 styled in her day “ the fair Mrs. Vernon ,” and is cele¬ 
 brated for her beauty in the letters of Rowland Whyte, 
 amongst the Sidney Papers. Another portrait of her 
 occurs at Welbeck, and a third, a very curious full- 
 length, at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, represent¬ 
 ing her as a girl at her toilet combing her hair, with a 
 motto on the comb, entreating the fair possessor to “ use 
 it gently.” 
 
 ccxxv. 
 
 LADY WIMBLEDON. 
 
 Died about a.d. 1612 - James I. 
 
 CORNELIUS JANSEN. 
 
 One of the three wives of Edward Cecil, viscount Wim¬ 
 bledon ; but as the picture bears no date, it is uncertain 
 which, whether 
 
 1. Theodosia, daughter of Sir Andrew Noel, of Dalby, 
 Leicestershire: 
 
 2. Diana, daughter of Sir William Drury, of Halstead, 
 Suffolk: or, 
 
 3. Sophia, daughter of Sir Edward Zouch, of Wok¬ 
 ing, Surrey. 
 
 In the Birch MSS. is the following entry of the funeral 
 of one of them, about 1612. “ On Tuesday last the lady 
 
 Viscountess Wimbledon’s corpse was carried over the 
 bridge of London, with a train of twenty caroches drawn 
 with six horses a-piece, and many more with four, and 
 with torches sa?is nomhre 
 
 Birch MSS. No. 4164. 
 
CENTRAL COMPARTMENT, R. H. 
 
 167 
 
 CCXXVI. 
 
 EDWARD RUSSELL, THIRD EARL OF BEDFORD. 
 
 MARK GERRARD. 
 
 The same as No. X. 
 
 CCXXVII. 
 
 WILLIAM, BARON RUSSELL OF THORNHAUGH. 
 The same as Nos. VII. and LVI. 
 
 CCXXVIII. 
 
 LORD FRANCIS RUSSELL. 
 
 Born a.d- Died A.n. 1G41 - -James I. to Charles I. 
 
 Arms; Russeli., as before, impaled with Gules, a lion rampant, within a bordnre 
 engrailed, argent , for Grey of Ware. 
 
 GERARD IIONTHORST. 
 
 Second son of Francis, fourth earl, and Katharine, 
 countess of Bedford. He died in France, in 1641, a 
 month before his father, leaving no offspring by his wife, 
 Catharine, daughter of William, Lord Grey of Wark, and 
 widow both of Sir Edward Moseley, Bart, and of the 
 Lord North and Grey. 
 
168 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCXXIX. 
 
 FRANCIS, LORD RUSSELL. 
 
 Born a.T)._ . Died a.d. 1585_ Edward VI. to Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms; Russell, as before, and, as an heiress, Argent , a chevron, vert, between 3 
 bngle-horns, stringed, sable , for Forster. 
 
 Third son of Francis, second earl, and Margaret, countess 
 of Bedford. Surviving his two elder brothers, he became 
 Lord Russell, and if he had lived only another day, he 
 might also have been saluted Earl of Bedford. He was 
 a youth of great intrepidity — 
 
 “ Daring,— an opposite in every danger.” 
 
 Having married Julian, sole daughter and heiress of Sir 
 John Forster, Warden of the Middle Marches, he took a 
 prominent part in many of the border conflicts of that 
 troubled period. He distinguished himself greatly at the 
 siege of Edinburgh Castle, in 1573 ; and was taken pri¬ 
 soner in that foray near the Carter Mountain, in 1575, 
 which is known in border story by the name of the 
 ‘ Raid of the Reidswire .’ He was sheriff of Northum¬ 
 berland in 1577, and knight of the shire for the same 
 county in 1571, and again in 1584. He was killed by a 
 bullet on the 27th of July, 1585, at a truce-day meeting 
 with the Scottish warden; and no doubt can now exist 
 that it was the result of premeditated treachery. He was 
 shot as he unsheathed his sword, after exclaiming to a 
 Scot, who, on the first raising of the tumult, had called on 
 him to surrender — “ That will I never do !” As he was 
 high in the favour of Queen Elizabeth, she manifested 
 the liveliest indignation when the tidings of the murder 
 reached her; and the Regent of Scotland was obliged to 
 make great submissions before her anger was appeased. 
 
CENTRAL COMPARTMENT, R. H. 
 
 169 
 
 ccxxx. 
 
 ANNE COUNTESS OF WARWICK. 
 
 SIR ANTONIO MORE. 
 
 The same as Nos. IV. and V. 
 
 CCXXXI. 
 
 COLONEL JOHN RUSSELL. 
 
 Born a.d- Died a.d. 1681 - James I. to Charles II. 
 
 Arms; Russell, as before. 
 
 JOHN HAYLS. 
 
 The third son of Francis, fourth earl, and Katharine, 
 countess of Bedford. He sat for Tavistock at the com¬ 
 mencement of the Long Parliament, but was disabled by 
 its vote, Jan. 22, 1643, “ for deserting the service of the 
 house, for being in the king’s quarters, and adhering to 
 that party.” Being appointed to a regiment by Charles I. 
 he served with bravery in many of the actions of those 
 times, and was wounded in the battle of Naseby. Yet 
 it is natural to suppose that he shared in the resentment 
 of his brother, William, earl of Bedford, at the ill reception 
 which the latter met with from the king, when he had with¬ 
 drawn to him from the parliamentary army: and a curious 
 painting by Dobson, formerly in the possession of his 
 cousin. Admiral Russell, now at Ombersley, favours this 
 supposition. It represents him, in company with Prince 
 Rupert and Mr. William Murray, as dipping his favour- 
 
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170 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 ribands in wine, having, in a temporary disgust, thrown 
 up his commission, which his companions are persuading 
 him to resume. 
 
 On the Restoration, he was made colonel of the first 
 regiment of Guards. Grammont, whilst he commends 
 that courage and fidelity to the royal cause which won 
 for him distinction at the court of Charles II., indulges 
 in some raillery on his attentions to the court-beauties at 
 the age of sixty, his fancy for antique fashions, and the 
 economy which he mingled with his native liberality. He 
 died unmarried, at the age of sixty-nine, about three 
 years before the execution of his nephew. 
 
 CCXXXII. 
 
 EDWARD, LORD RUSSELL, Mt. 22. 
 
 Born a.d. 1551. Died about a.b. 1576 - Edward VI. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms; Russell, as before; impaled with Morrison, viz. Or, on a chief, gules, 
 3 chaplets of the field. 
 
 The eldest son of Francis, second earl, and Margaret, 
 countess of Bedford. After marrying Jane Sibyl, daughter 
 of Sir Richard Morrison, ambassador to the Emperor 
 Charles V., he died without offspring, during the lifetime 
 of his father. The present portrait bears the date of 1573. 
 A Latin ode, addressed to him by Pietro Bizzarri, occurs 
 in the Opuscula of that elegant versifier. 
 
CENTRAL COMPARTMENT, R. H. 
 
 171 
 
 CCXXXIII. 
 
 FRANCIS RUSSELL, SECOND EARL OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born a.d. 1530. Died a.d. 1585. - Henry VIII. to Q. Elizabeth . 
 
 Arms ; Russell, impaled with St. John ; viz. argent, on a chief, gules, 2 mullets 
 
 pierced, or. 
 
 ZUCCHERO. 
 
 The only son of John, first earl of Bedford, and Anne, 
 daughter of Sir Guy Sapcote ; he occupied at the council- 
 board of Queen Elizabeth nearly the same rank which 
 his father had held in the court of Edward VI. He had 
 been imprisoned for his religious principles during the 
 reign of Queen Mary, on which occasion Bradford the 
 martyr addressed to him a beautiful letter of sympathy 
 and consolation. After two missions to the court of 
 France, he was constituted governor of Berwick, and 
 warden of the Marches, which he filled from 1564 to 
 1567—a period wherein were acted many of those striking 
 events at the court of Scotland which had so great an 
 influence on the destiny of Mary, queen of Scots. When 
 the unhappy fortune of this princess had placed her in 
 his queen’s power, he was desired by Elizabeth to take 
 the charge of her, but firmly refused the dubious honour. 
 Camden states him to have been a person of that piety 
 and gracious disposition, that “ what he could possibly 
 say in his commendation would fall infinitely short of his 
 deserts.” His mansion is described as having been “ a very 
 school of virtue his hospitality was unbounded; and he 
 was a ready protector of the poor and the oppressed,— 
 
 “ Which made men sing in open streets this song, 
 
 There rides the lord—their strength that suffer wrong.” 
 
 Whetstone’s Funeral Eulogy. 
 
172 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCXXXIV. 
 
 LADY ANNE RUSSELL, afterwards COUNTESS OF 
 BRISTOL, Mt. 12. 
 
 PRIWITZER. 
 
 The same as No. CCXLII. painted in 1626. 
 
 ccxxxv. 
 
 LADY MARGARET RUSSELL, afterwards COUNTESS 
 OF CARLISLE, Mt. 9. 
 
 PRIWITZER. 
 
 The same as No. XXII. painted in the same year. 
 
 CCXXXVI. 
 
 LADY DIANA RUSSELL, afterwards COUNTESS 
 OF BRADFORD, Mt. 5. 
 
 PRIWITZER. 
 
 The same as No. XX. painted in 1627. 
 
CENTRAL COMPARTMENT, L. H. 
 
 173 
 
 CCXXXVII. 
 
 LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Born a.d. 1582. Died a.d. 1627.-Q. Elizabeth to James I. 
 
 Arms; Russell, impaled with, Quarterly, 1 aud 4, Sable, a fret, argent , for Har¬ 
 rington ; 2 and 3, Argent, 2 glazier’s nippers per saltier, between 4 pears, or, 
 for Kelway. 
 
 GERARD HONTHORST. 
 
 The same personage as No. IX.; but that picture shews 
 like an indifferent caricature in comparison with this 
 beautiful and highly-finished painting of Gherardo Della 
 Notte. In regarding it, we can easily conceive how 
 naturally the accomplished countess might impart that 
 inspiration to the muse of Jonson which gives warmth 
 and life to the following address:— 
 
 TO THE COUNTESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 This morning, timely rapt with holy fire, 
 
 I thought to form unto my zealous muse 
 What kind of creature I could most desire 
 To honour, serve, and love, as poets use. 
 
 I meant to make her fair, and free, and wise, 
 
 Of greatest blood, and yet more good than great,— 
 
 I meant the day-star should not brighter rise, 
 
 Nor lend like influence from his lucent seat. 
 
 I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet, 
 
 Hating that solemn vice of greatness, pride; 
 
 I meant each softest virtue there should meet, 
 
 Fit in that softer bosom to reside. 
 
 Only a learned and a manly soul 
 
 I purposed her,—that should, with even powers, 
 
 The rock, the spindle, and the shears control 
 Of Destiny, and spin her own free hours. 
 
 Such when I meant to feign, and wish to see, 
 
 The Muse bade “ Bedford write,” and that was she ! 
 
174 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCXXXVIII. 
 
 DIANA, LADY NEWPORT. 
 
 THEODORE RUSSELL. 
 
 The same as Nos. XX. and CCXXXVI. 
 
 CCXXXIX. 
 
 MARGARET, COUNTESS OF CARLISLE. 
 
 THEODORE RUSSELL. 
 
 The same as Nos. XXII. and CCXXXV. 
 
 CCXL. 
 
 PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN UNKNOWN. 
 
 CORNELIUS JANSEN. 
 
 On the small picture of a lady, within the apartment 
 of the room in which this personage is standing, half hid 
 by a mysterious curtain, is inscribed “ iEtatis—, 1612. 
 L y T. or K.” The writer has a strong persuasion that 
 the gentleman intended to be personified by the painting 
 is Sir John Kennedy, to whose story allusion has been 
 already made.* If, as is not improbable, he had given 
 out that his first lady was dead, when he paid his ad¬ 
 dresses to Lady Elizabeth Brydges, there would be 
 nothing unnatural in his directing the painter to intro¬ 
 duce the half-screened figure, which, covered by a curtain, 
 might seem to give the colour of truth to his false repre¬ 
 sentations. 
 
 Page 16. 
 
CENTRAL COMPARTMENT, L. H. 
 
 175 
 
 CCXLI. 
 
 EDWARD MONTAGU, SECOND EARL OF 
 MANCHESTER. 
 
 Born a.d. 1602. Died a.d. 167L-Q. Elizabeth to Charles II. 
 
 Arms ; Argent, 3 lozenges in fesse, gules , within a bordure, sable , a crescent for 
 difference, impaled with Russell. 
 
 KNELLER. 
 
 Son of Henry, first earl of Manchester, by his first wife, 
 Catherine, daughter of Sir William Spencer, of Yarnton, 
 Oxfordshire. This eminent nobleman, so deservedly 
 eulogised by Clarendon for his unbounded hospitality, 
 obliging disposition, and other amiable qualities, was one 
 of the celebrated Five who were accused by Charles I. 
 of high treason. Without enmity to monarchy or to 
 the monarch, he was a dauntless champion of the public 
 liberties. He commanded for the Parliament during the 
 Civil Wars, but becoming obnoxious to Cromwell after 
 the battle of Newbury, he was deprived by the self- 
 denying Ordinance of his commission. Concurring in the 
 Restoration, which, however, he sought to couple with 
 conditions, he was appointed lord-chamberlain of the 
 household by Charles II. He married, for his fifth wife. 
 Lady Margaret Russell, third daughter of Francis, fourth 
 earl of Bedford (No XX.), and died, universally regretted. 
 May 5, 1671. 
 
176 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCXLII. 
 
 ANNE, COUNTESS OF BRISTOL. 
 
 Born a.d. 1615. Died a.d. 1696-7-- James I. to William and Mary. 
 
 Arms; Azure , a fleur-de-lys, argent, for Digby ; impaled with Russell. 
 
 THEODORE RUSSELL. 
 
 Second daughter of Francis, fourth earl, and Katharine, 
 countess of Bedford, and wife of George Digby, earl of 
 Bristol (No. CXXVIII.) Lady Bristol was not un¬ 
 tinctured with her husband’s love of political intrigue; 
 and more than once betrayed the counsels of her brother 
 William, earl of Bedford, and his party, to Hyde, after¬ 
 wards Lord Clarendon. 
 
CENTRAL COMPARTMENT, L. H. 
 
 177 
 
 CCXLIII. 
 
 KATHARINE, LADY BROOKE. 
 
 Born a.d. 1614. Died a.d.--- James I. to Charles II. 
 
 Arms; Sable , on a cross within a bordnre engrailed, or , 5 pellets of the first , for 
 Brooke, impaled with Russell. 
 
 THEODORE RUSSELL. 
 
 Eldest sister of the preceding, and wife to the celebrated 
 Robert Greville, second Lord Brooke, who distinguished 
 himself by his uncompromising opposition to the mea¬ 
 sures of Charles I., as well as by his writings, which have 
 obtained the high encomiums of Milton, and who perished 
 at the siege of Lichfield in 1643. Lady Brooke lived to 
 an advanced age, but the date of her death is unknown. 
 Her dress evinces how entirely she acquiesced in the 
 puritan principles which her husband imbibed during his 
 early intercourse with the religious professors in Switzer¬ 
 land and Germany, and which he ever after continued to 
 support and to defend. 
 
 A A 
 
178 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCXLIV. 
 
 THOMAS WRIOTHESLEY, 
 
 FOURTH EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON. 
 
 Born a.d.-. Died a.d. 1667- - James I . to Charles I . 
 
 Arms ; Azure , a cross, or, between 4 falcons close, argent , for Wriothesley ; im¬ 
 paled with Massey of Rouvigny, viz. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Gules , a chief chequy, 
 argent and azure ; 2 and 3, argent , 3 mallets, gules ; over all, an escocheon, argent , 
 thereon a fesse, gules, 3 martlets in chief, sable , on a canton of the third , a battle- 
 axe erect, of the field. 
 
 DOBSON. 
 
 Son of Henry, third earl of that title, and Elizabeth 
 Vernon, his countess. He has been justly termed the 
 English Sully. Like the minister of Henry IV. he was 
 placed at the head of the treasury after the troubles and 
 confusion of a civil war, and by his application and capa¬ 
 city succeeded in reducing the public accounts to regu¬ 
 larity and order. Virtuous and amiable in every relation 
 of private life, loyal, patriotic, and of unspotted integrity 
 in public life, he died too soon for his country’s good, but 
 not for his own happiness, as his virtues, forming a per¬ 
 petual reproach to the guilty and luxurious court in which 
 he lived, must otherwise have soon led to his disgrace—a 
 deed of ingratitude to which Charles was fully equal, and 
 which he is known to have actually contemplated. Tho¬ 
 mas, earl of Southampton, was the father of Rachel, lady 
 Russell, who in vain pleaded the eminent services which he 
 had rendered to the crown, for a mitigation of the remorse¬ 
 less sentence which left her a heart-broken widow. 
 
CENTRAL COMPARTMENT, L. H. 
 
 179 
 
 CCXLV. 
 
 ANNE, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 THEODORE RUSSELL. 
 
 The same as Nos. XXXVII., LXXI., and CXIX. 
 
 CCXLVI. 
 
 CHRISTIANA, COUNTESS OF DEVONSHIRE. 
 
 Flourished a.d. 1000—1674. 
 
 Arms ; Sable , 4 harts heads caboshed, argent , attired or, for Cavendish ; impaled 
 with or, a saltier and chief, gules , on a canton, argent , a lion rampant, azure , for 
 Bruce. 
 
 THEODORE RUSSELL. 
 
 Daughter of Edward, lord Bruce of Kinloss, one of the 
 
 favourites of James I. by Magdalen, daughter of Sir- 
 
 Clerke, and wife of William, earl of Devonshire. She was 
 one of the most distinguished women of her age, a pa¬ 
 troness of wits, and a theme for the praise of poets_ 
 
 William, earl qf Pembroke, having written a volume of 
 verses in her celebration,— and the companion and suc- 
 courer of princes. She was instrumental in the conduct 
 of the Restoration; and having surmounted no fewer 
 than thirty law-suits by her skill and affability, she re¬ 
 ceived from Charles II. this compliment: “ Madam, you 
 have all my judges at your disposal.” “ She seems,” in 
 fact, “ says Lord Orford, to have been a fair model of 
 our ancient nobility—a compound of piety, regularity, dig¬ 
 nity, and human wisdom, so discreetly classed as to suffer 
 none of them to trespass on the interests of its associates.” 
 
180 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCXLVII. 
 
 PORTRAIT OF A LADY UNKNOWN. 
 
 MARC GARRARD. 
 
 In a scenic dress. From an obvious resemblance in the 
 dress and features to those of Katharine, countess of 
 Bedford, as depicted in the North Corridor (No. XI.), 
 it is conjectured that this portrait may have been de¬ 
 signed to represent her sister, Elizabeth, lady Kennedy, 
 (No. XVI.), and that it may have been painted at the 
 same period with the above. 
 
 CCXLVIII. 
 
 HENRY WRIOTHESLEY, 
 
 THIRD EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON. 
 
 Born A.n. 1573. Died a.d. 1624 - Q. Elizabeth to Janies I. 
 
 Arms ; Wriothesi.ey, as before, impaled with Vernon, viz. argent , a fret, sable. 
 
 MIREVELT. 
 
 Son of Henry, second earl, by his countess, Mary, 
 daughter of Anthony Browne, first Viscount Montagu: 
 the friend of Essex, and the patron of Shakspeare. The 
 active part which, from his ardent personal attachment, he 
 took in the hasty insurrection of the former, subjected him 
 to all the penalties of high treason, which though Eliza¬ 
 beth remitted, she confined him a prisoner in the Tower, 
 whence he was liberated only on the accession of King 
 James. James entirely reversed his predecessor’s treat- 
 
CENTRAL COMPARTMENT, L. H. 
 
 181 
 
 ment, restored him to his honours, and bestowed upon 
 him and his family several signal marks of attention and 
 regard. A private quarrel with the haughty favourite 
 Buckingham subjected him to a second arrest, which was, 
 however, of but short continuance. Proverbially of a high 
 spirit and undaunted courage, he engaged with reputa¬ 
 tion, at various intervals, in many of the military enter¬ 
 prises of his time : and solaced his more tranquil hours 
 with those classical productions and pursuits which were 
 congenial to his erudite and tasteful mind. His great 
 liberality to the poets of his day is matter of general 
 notoriety: Davenant relates, that on one occasion he 
 gave <£1000 to Shakspeare, to enable him to complete 
 some favourite purchase of his fancy: and this poet, 
 as well as Spenser and others, have manifested their gra¬ 
 titude and estimation of his noble qualities, by numerous 
 dedications and verses in their celebration. 
 
 CCXLIX. 
 
 DOROTHY, COUNTESS OF BERKSHIRE. 
 
 Flourished a.d. 1640. 
 
 Arms; Gules, on a bend between 6 cross-crosslets, fitchee, argent, in an escutcheon, 
 or, a demi-lion rampant, pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double 
 tressure, flory, counterflory, gules , a crescent for difference, for Howard, Eari. of 
 Berkshire ; impaled with argent, (5lions rampant,3,2, and 1 , sable, for Savage. 
 
 THEODORE RUSSELL. 
 
 Second daughter of Thomas, viscount Savage (after¬ 
 wards second earl Rivers), by Elizabeth, daughter and 
 coheir of Thomas, lord Darcy, first earl of that title. She 
 married Charles Howard, second earl of Berkshire, an¬ 
 cestor of the present Earl of Suffolk. 
 
182 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCL. 
 
 COLONEL EDWARD RUSSELL, OF CHISWICK. 
 
 Born a.d. - Died a.d. 1665.- James I. to Charles II. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , a lion rampant gules , on a chief, sable , three escallops of the field, for 
 Russell ; and, as an heiress, sable , 3 lions passant, guardant, or, on a fesse, 
 argent , 3 escallops, gules , for Hill. 
 
 THEODORE RUSSELL. 
 
 Fourth son of Francis, fourth earl, and Katharine, 
 countess of Bedford. As the youngest son, he had his 
 residence at Chiswick, by custom of the manor; and, 
 like his brother John, served as a colonel on the king’s 
 side, during the Civil Wars. In 1656 he was resident at 
 Utrecht, having fled thither, w^th many other of the 
 royalist nobility and gentry, to avoid retaliation, during 
 the ascendancy of Cromwell. He married, after the 
 death of her first husband. Sir William Brooke, K. B., 
 Penelope, daughter and coheir to Sir Moses Hill, an¬ 
 cestor of the present Marquess of Downshire; and by 
 this lady was the father of that great ornament of his age 
 and country, Edward, Admiral Russell, Viscount Barfleur 
 and Earl of Orford. 
 
CENTRAL COMPARTMENT, L. H. 
 
 183 
 
 CCLI. 
 
 FRANCIS RUSSELL, jet. 8. 
 
 PRIWITZER. 
 
 The same as No. CCXXVIII., painted in 1627. 
 
 CCLII. 
 
 JOHN RUSSELL, ^t. 7. 
 
 PRIWITZER. 
 
 The same as No. CCXXXI., painted in the same year. 
 
 CCLIII. 
 
 LADY KATHARINE RUSSELL, A5T. 13. 
 
 PRIWITZER. 
 
 The same as No. CCXLIII. Painted in 1627. 
 
184 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCLIV. 
 
 CATHERINE, COUNTESS OF SALISBURY. 
 
 Flourished, a.d. 1608. - James I. 
 
 Arms; Barry often, argent and azure, over all six escutcheons, 3, 2, and 1, sable , 
 each charged with a lion rampant of the field, for Cecil ; impaled with gules , on 
 a bend between six cross-crosslets, fitchee, argent , in an escutcheon, or, a demi- 
 lion rampant, pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double tressure 
 flory counterflory, gules, a crescent for difference, for Howard, Earl of Suf¬ 
 folk. 
 
 Youngest daughter of Thomas, earl of Suffolk, lord 
 treasurer, by his countess, Elizabeth, daughter and co¬ 
 heir to Sir Henry Knyvet, of Charlton, Wilts. She was 
 married in 1608 to William Cecil, viscount Cranboume, 
 afterwards second earl of Salisbury. We find her noted 
 as one of the performers in Ben Jonson’s “ Masque 
 of Queens,” and as taking part in other festivities of the 
 court of Anne of Denmark. The christenings of her 
 children were always celebrated with great magnificence, 
 the love of shew never mounting to a more passionate 
 height than in the reign of James. Naturally attending 
 the nuptials of her too notorious sister. Lady Essex, with 
 the Earl of Somerset, she was on that occasion highly 
 commended in the courtly sermon of Dr. Mountaigne, 
 dean of Westminster, no less than “ the mother vine,” 
 as, with some quaintness, he termed the Countess of 
 Suffolk. 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT, R. H. 
 
 185 
 
 CCLV. 
 
 ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF LINCOLN. 
 
 Born a.d. 1528. Died a.d. 1589 - Henry VIII. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms; the same as No. LVII. 
 
 CORNELIUS KETEL. 
 
 Second daughter (by his second wife Margaret, daughter 
 of Thomas Gray, marquess of Dorset,) of Gerald Fitz¬ 
 gerald, ninth earl of Kildare, who died in the Tower, 
 1534, in grief for the rebellion of his son. A lady whose 
 beauty, rank, and even name, would have been unremem¬ 
 bered but for the fortune which threw her, in her early 
 youth, before the eyes of the sensitive Lord Surrey, as 
 an object of pity for his sympathy, and of admiration for 
 his muse. She is thought to have been born about 1528, 
 in the castle of the earl her father, at Maynooth, in 
 Ireland; to have been brought over to England an infant; 
 and, being distantly related to Henry the Eighth, to have 
 been placed by him under the protection of the princess 
 Mary, by whom she was made a lady of her chamber, 
 about 1542. Lord Surrey saw her first at Hunsdon 
 House, the then residence of the princess; but it was at 
 Hampton Court, at one of the splendid entertainments 
 which the monarch was so fond of giving, that he became 
 so glowingly enamoured of 
 
 £< The light of her fair looks and golden tresse.” 
 
 It was the natural tendency of his passion to invest her 
 with ideal graces,— to induce him to regard her personal 
 charms as a mere reflection of the beauty of her mind ; 
 but it is easy to perceive, from the celebrated sonnets 
 
 B B 
 
186 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 which, as to another Laura, he indited in her praise, that 
 she had but little of her mother’s kindliness and sensi¬ 
 bility ;* and that, after the first allurements of gentleness 
 which she assumed to complete a conquest so flattering to 
 her vanity, she practised towards him all the ungenerous 
 arts of a refined coquetry. It was slowly, and with all 
 the reluctance of a real attachment, that the noble Surrey 
 awoke from his imaginative dream. The rudenesses 
 which he received from her at length roused him from his 
 languor, and he strove to forget her image in the wars of 
 France. The after acts of the “ Fair Geraldine ” shew 
 how little worthy she would have proved of such a heart; 
 since motives of interest only could have induced her, a 
 o-irl of fifteen or sixteen, to listen to the suit of a man of 
 
 O 
 
 sixty — for such was the age of her first husband. Sir 
 Anthony Brown, the king’s master of the horse, when she 
 married him in 1543. He died six years after, and she 
 then became the third wife of Edward Clinton, earl of 
 Lincoln, lord high admiral, whom also she survived ; and 
 from being idolised by one poet as the fairest creature of 
 her sex, she lived to be characterised by another under 
 the homely appellation of “ old Lincoln .” She died in 
 March, 1589, at the age of 61, which was designated by 
 that number of poor women being appointed by the 
 Herald’s Office to walk in the procession at her funeral. 
 
 * IloHnshed (page 307 ) mentions the great affection which her 
 parents bore each other. The earl would never even buy a suit of 
 apparel for himself, “ but he would suit his lady with the same stuff; 
 and after his decease in the Tower, “ she did not only ever after live as 
 a chaste and honourable widow, but also nightly, before she went to bed, 
 she would resort to his picture, and then, with a solemn congee , she 
 would bid her lord good night.” The bosom that could deal in this 
 devoted intercourse must have remained always ardent, beautiful, and 
 young. But the earl deserved it of her. See his character in Holin- 
 shed, ut supra. 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT, R. H. 
 
 187 
 
 CCLVI. 
 
 MARGARET, COUNTESS OF CUMBERLAND. 
 
 Born a.d. 1560. Died a.d. 1616_ Q. Elizabeth to James I. 
 
 Arms ; Chequy, or and azure, a fesse, gules , for Clifford, impaled 
 with Russell. 
 
 Youngest of the three daughters of Francis, second earl 
 of Bedford, by his first lady, Margaret, daughter of 
 Sir John St. John, of Bletsoe, who died when she was 
 but a year old. She was sought in marriage when a 
 child of five years old, by Henry, earl of Cumberland, 
 for his son George, lord Clifford, afterwards earl of Cum¬ 
 berland, then a boy of but seven years of age; and 
 their nuptials took place, in ratification of that early 
 contract, June 24, 1577. She thus became the parent of 
 the celebrated Anne Clifford, countess of Pembroke, Dor¬ 
 set, and Montgomery ; whose love and veneration for her 
 knew no bounds nor end, but, as with perennial fresh¬ 
 ness, manifested itself, on various occasions, long after the 
 trials of that " blessed saint,” as she in admiration calls 
 her, had terminated in the tomb. 
 
 Her husband’s course was sparkling and eccentric, but 
 neither happy nor consistent. His daring love of mari¬ 
 time adventure proved advantageous to the nation, but 
 ruinous and pernicious to himself; and his idle passion for 
 the tilts and tourneys at which he officiated as queen’s 
 champion, after the death of Sir Henry Lee, had a range 
 of mischief still less limited. It led him utterly to neglect 
 his amiable and exemplary countess; and a court amour. 
 
188 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 into which he suffered himself to be betrayed, completed 
 his estrangement and crowned her misfortunes. 
 
 But her virtues were only rendered more refined and 
 more exalted by these and similar sorrows. During 
 many years of injury and neglect, if not of persecution, 
 she furnished a sublime example of patient magnanimity ; 
 and it was remarked of her, by one of the court corre¬ 
 spondents of her times, when narrating to his friend the 
 decease of the earl, her husband (who reconciled himself 
 to her and his daughter in his last moments), that “ she 
 was a woman fit to pleasure the communion of saints.” 
 On the spot where, in 1616, she took her last farewell of 
 her daughter, the latter erected that memorial to her, 
 well known in Westmoreland by the title of the “ Coun¬ 
 tess's Pillar: ”— 
 
 “ Which still records, beyond the pencil’s power, 
 
 The silent sorrows of a parting hour; 
 
 Still to the musing pilgrim points the place 
 Her sainted spirit most delights to trace.” 
 
 Rogers. 
 
 She died on the 24th of May, in the same year, and 
 was interred at Appleby. 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT, R. H. 
 
 189 
 
 CCLVII. 
 
 AMBROSE DUDLEY, EARL OF WARWICK. 
 The same as No. CCIII. 
 
 CCLVIII. 
 
 WILLIAM CECIL, LORD BURLEIGH. 
 
 Born a.d. 1520. Died a.d. 1598 - Henry VIII. to Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms; Barry of 10, argent and azure, over all six escocheons, 3,2, and sable, 
 each charged with a lion rampant of the field, for Cecil; impaled with, or, a 
 chevron chequy, gules and azure, between 3 cinquefoils of the last, for Cooke. 
 
 MARK GARRARD. 
 
 The renowned minister, whose councils shed so rich a 
 lustre on the annals of a reign to which we are accus¬ 
 tomed— and justly ■—to refer with pride, as developing 
 more fully than any previous one, the heroism, the in¬ 
 tellect, and love of mental freedom, the patriotism and 
 resources of a nation which has since made such a signal 
 progress in civilisation, science, and substantial greatness. 
 
 ---- “ Sage he stood, 
 
 W itli Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear 
 The weight of mightiest monarchies ! ” 
 
 He was the son of Sir Richard Cecil, Esq., yeoman of 
 the wardrobe to Henry VIII., by Jane, daughter and 
 heir to William Heckington, of Boccea, in Lincoln¬ 
 shire ; and was secretary of state to Edward VI. before 
 he was preferred to the great employments which he 
 filled under that prince’s favourite sister. During the 
 ten years’ calm which Elizabeth enjoyed after the settle- 
 
190 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 ment of her crown, and the re-establishment of the 
 Protestant religion, he provided, like a wary statesman, 
 for the storm which hung on the horizon, “ and im¬ 
 proved,” says Lloyd, “ her shipping to a dreadfulness at 
 sea, as he did her army to experience by land, making 
 Holland our stage of war and school of discipline, where 
 England gained the security and experience of war, 
 without its calamities and desolations. His intelligence 
 abroad was no less than his prudence at home; and 
 he could write to a friend in Ireland what the King of 
 Spain could do for the two succeeding years, and what 
 he could not accomplish. Others were raised to balance 
 factions; he to support the kingdom : yet, when Leicester 
 would have no equal, and Sussex no superior, Cecil, as 
 neuter, served himself of both. f Prudens qui pattens’ was 
 his saying. No fewer than the Marquess of Winchester, 
 the Duke of Norfolk, and the Earls of Northumberland, 
 Arundel, Pembroke, Leicester, and Westmoreland, con¬ 
 trived his fall; but reasons of state, and his mistress, still 
 kept up his standing. In a word, whilst others set in 
 a cloud, he shone clear to the last. He saw Essex dead, 
 Leicester slighted, and Mountjoy discountenanced; but 
 for himself—what with the queen’s constant favour, 
 which lodged where it had lighted, and his own discreet 
 temper and happy moderation, he died as great a favourite 
 as he had lived,” at the advanced age of seventy-eight. 
 The frugality and inflexible integrity with which he 
 managed the revenues of the kingdom during his long 
 administration, as high treasurer, is beyond all praise. 
 He married for his first lady, Mary, sister ol Sir John 
 Cheeke, tutor to Edward the Sixth; and for his second, 
 Mildred, one of the five celebrated daughters and co¬ 
 heiresses of Sir Anthony Cooke, of Giddea Hall, in Essex. 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT, R. H. 
 
 191 
 
 CCLIX. 
 
 QUEEN ELIZABETH. 
 
 Born a.d. 1533. Died a.d. 1602. 
 
 Arms ; Quarterly, Franck and England. 
 
 “ The pale Roman nose, the head of hair powdered 
 with diamonds, the vast ruff, the vaster farthingale, and 
 the bushel of pearls,” of which Lord Orford humor¬ 
 ously speaks, as characteristics of her portraits, announce, 
 at a glance, the celebrated princess, “ who often shewed 
 herself more than man, and, in good troth, was some¬ 
 times less than woman.” Such was the description given 
 of Elizabeth’s personal qualities, by her secretary, the 
 Earl of Salisbury, when death had closed her eyes and 
 extinguished her power; and the epigram must be ac¬ 
 knowledged to have considerable truth. 
 
 In the back-ground is a representation, in two com¬ 
 partments, of the discomfiture of the Armada, the Spa¬ 
 nish fleet darkened with a night of gloom, the En¬ 
 glish brightened with a flood of light. Her courtiers, 
 versed in all the arts of flattering a countenance in¬ 
 satiable of admiration, would doubtless have character¬ 
 ised the latter as a mere reflection from 
 
 “ The light which fell on Una’s angel face, 
 
 And made a sunshine in the shady place/' 
 
 Faery Queen. 
 
192 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCLX. 
 
 EDWARD CLINTON, EARL OF LINCOLN. 
 The same as No. EVIL Painted in 1584. 
 
 CCLXI. 
 
 CHARLES BRANDON, DUKE OF SUFFOLK. 
 
 Born a.d_ Died a.d. 1545 - Henry VII. to Henry VIII. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly, 1 and 4, barry of 10, argent and gules, over all a lion rampant, or, 
 crowned per pale, argent, for Brandon ; 2 and 3, quarterly, 1 and 4, azure , a 
 cross moline, or, for Bruyn ; impaled with France and England quarterly for 
 Mary, daughter of Henry VII. 
 
 HOLBEIN. 
 
 Son and heir of Sir William Brandon, standard-bearer to 
 Henry, earl of Richmond, at the battle of Bosworth, by 
 Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Sir Henry Bruyn, Kt. 
 “ Such,” says Lord Orford, in speaking of this portrait, 
 “ was the capricious cruelty of Henry VIII., that, though 
 he fell so unmercifully on the house of Norfolk, out of 
 which he had married two wives, Anne Boleyn and 
 Katharine Howard, and had married his natural son, the 
 Duke of Richmond, to a third female of that family, yet 
 the Earl of Angus and the Duke of Suffolk, who married 
 his two sisters, the Dowager Queens of Scotland and 
 France, without his leave, were spared; the first keeping 
 his head, and the latter his favour.” He is termed in the 
 painting “ Lord Great Master to King Henry VIII., the 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT, R. H. 193 
 
 fayrest man at armes in his t.yme, leftenant to the kyng in 
 his greatest warres, voyd of dispyte, moste fortunate to 
 the end — never in displeasure with his kyng.” 
 
 The latter clause must be received with some exception. 
 Henry soon forgave his early playmate for his presump¬ 
 tion in obtaining the affections of his sister; but he was 
 with greater difficulty appeased, after the earl’s precipitate 
 retreat from Paris in 1523, when that capital lay open to 
 his arms. Henry’s darling project of reconquering France 
 was thereby wholly disappointed; and it was some time 
 before he would admit Suffolk to his presence. The earl 
 was one of the most potent enemies of Wolsey in his 
 latter days, and laboured strenuously both to overthrow 
 that minister, and to abolish the papal authority in 
 England. His chivalrous accomplishments and military 
 actions have been often noticed; he was popular with the 
 nation from his valour, bounty, affability, and easiness of 
 access ; and esteemed by the nobility for his frank-heart- 
 edness and nobleness of disposition, which entirely de¬ 
 spised those arts of dissimulation whereby some courtiers 
 retain their ascendancy, and which led him at no period 
 to seek a monopoly of the favour so early acquired and 
 so long retained. He died in 1544, and was interred 
 with great magnificence at Windsor, in St. George’s 
 Chapel. 
 
194 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCLXII. 
 
 SIR EDWARD GORGES, Mt. 37. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1560. Was living a.d. 1623. - Q. Elizabeth to Charles I . 
 
 Arms ; Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent , a gurges, or whirlpool, azure , for Gorges ; 2 and 
 3, lozengy, or and azure , for Morville ; and, as an heiress, argent , 2 bars, 
 azure, over all, an eagle displayed, gules, for Speke. 
 
 CORNELIUS JANSEN. 
 
 Of a family which claimed the same ancestry as the 
 Russells, earls of Bedford ; but, branching off from their 
 baronial stock in the reign of Edward the Third, as¬ 
 sumed the coat and surname of the maternal heiress, 
 from whom it inherited the manors of Bradpole and 
 of Wraxall. This portrait is, in all probability, that of 
 Edward, son of Sir Thomas Gorges, of Langford, Wilts, 
 by Helena, relict of William Parr, Marquess of North¬ 
 ampton. He was knighted at Widdrington, April 9, 1613, 
 by James I., who created him a baronet in 1612, and 
 advanced him to an Irish peerage, July 13, 1621, by the 
 title of baron of Dundalk — a distinction which seems to 
 have expired with his son Thomas. The painting bears 
 the date of 1597, and the laconic motto “ Perdydos,” on 
 the mysterious meaning of which no light can now be 
 thrown, as history is altogether silent on the personal 
 incidents or actions which gained this nobleman his 
 honours. 
 
 Sir Edward appears to have been the elder brother of 
 Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and married a daughter of Sir 
 George Speke, of Whitlackington, Somersetshire, knight 
 of the Bath. 
 
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 CCLXIII. 
 
 SIR JOSCELINE PERCY. 
 
 Born a.d. 1578. Died a.d. 1632. - Q. Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly, l and 4, Azure, five fusils in fesse or, for Percy; 2 and 3, or, a 
 lion rampant azure , for Brabant, a mullet for difference. 
 
 CORNELIUS JANSEN. 
 
 The seventh son of Henry, eighth earl, and Catherine, 
 countess of Northumberland. In the Birch MSS. we 
 find the following notice of him: “ Sir Josceline Percy 
 was a great atheist.* At a feast near the Charter House, 
 made by the Earl of Rutland, on the anniversary of his 
 nativity. Sir Josceline was there, being partly maintained 
 by the private purse of Lord Rutland. After dinner 
 came in the Earl of Northumberland, who, hearing 
 Sir Josceline make many protestations and asseverations 
 of what he would do for his benefactor, exclaimed,— 
 f Then, cousin, you have no kindness left for me!’ 
 ‘For you!’ Sir Josceline replied; ‘ I will be ****** 
 for you, my lord!’ He was, above all others, the most 
 affected to the Catholic religion; and being a prisoner 
 and sick in the tower, had a priest with him. As he 
 was going to confession, news came up that the Earl 
 of Northumberland wished to see him. The priest was 
 thereupon thrust into a corner. Northumberland stayed 
 so long that the disease increased; and before the earl’s 
 visit was done, and the priest ready. Sir Josceline expired.” 
 
 * By what follows, it will be obvious that this term is used to imply 
 rather a freethinker or sceptic, than one who actually denied the exist¬ 
 ence of a Deity. 
 
196 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCLXIV. 
 
 SIR RICHARD BINGHAM. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1528. Died a.d. 1598- Henry VIII. to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly, 1 and 4, azure, a bend coticed, between six crosses patee, or, for 
 
 Bingham; 2 and 3, Ermine , a lion rampant, gules , crowned, or, for Turber- 
 
 VILLE. 
 
 Of Melcomb-Bingham, in Dorsetshire, an estate pos¬ 
 sessed by his family so early as the reign of Henry the 
 Third, by marriage with the heiress of Sir Robert Tur- 
 berville. Sir Richard was the third son of Robert 
 Bingham, Esq., by Alice, daughter of Thomas Coker, Esq. 
 of Mapoudre, in the same county. He was universally 
 regarded as one of the best officers of his age, having 
 served in his youth in every expedition that promised him 
 experience or renown—-at the sieges of St. Quintin’s, 
 and of Leith, at Mechlin (against Don John of Austria), 
 under the Venetians at Candia, at the battle of Le- 
 panto, in the civil wars of France, and in the Nether¬ 
 lands ; uniting to an untiring activity the most daring 
 bravery, and a genius for stratagem perfectly unequalled. 
 He was at length, in 1585, appointed Governor of Con¬ 
 naught, the affairs of which province, amidst occasional 
 rebellions, he administered with great prudence and suc¬ 
 cess, until the arts of the Earl of Tyrone, and the too 
 pacific jealousy of Sir John Norris, embroiled him with his 
 mistress. Elizabeth lent an unworthy ear to accusations 
 which charged with cruelty a soldier-spirit that had given 
 the strongest proofs of a humane disposition. His indig¬ 
 nation at the injustice of the charge hurried him over into 
 the queen’s presence, who replied by depriving him of his 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT, R. H. 
 
 197 
 
 province, and putting him under immediate arrest. But 
 this disgrace was of short duration: his services were 
 judged indispensable in the crisis that too soon ensued; 
 and he was accordingly sent back to Ireland in 1598 , with 
 the title of Marshal of Ireland and Governor of Leinster. 
 He had no sooner, however, reached Dublin, than he was 
 seized with a complaint, which, at the age of seventy, 
 terminated his active and honourable career. He was 
 interred in the south aisle of Westminster Abbey; and 
 one of his military comrades or servants atoned for the 
 neglect of his more distinguished friends, by raising a 
 modest tablet to his memory. He was a collateral an¬ 
 cestor of the present Earl of Lucan. 
 
198 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCLXV. 
 
 SIR NICHOLAS BACON. 
 
 Born a.d. 1510. Died a.d. 1579_ Henry VIII. to Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms; Gules , on a chief, argent, 2 mullets pierced, sable, for Bacon; and, as an 
 heiress, or, a chevron chequy, gules and azure, between 3 cinquefoils of the last, 
 for Cooke. 
 
 ZUCCHERO. 
 
 Lord keeper of the great seal to Queen Elizabeth, the 
 second son of Robert Bacon, Esq. of Drinkston, Suffolk, 
 and of Isabel, daughter of John Gage, Esq. of Pakenham, 
 in the same county. His first wife was Jane, daughter of 
 William Fearnley, of West Creting, Suffolk; his second, 
 Anne, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Sir Anthony 
 Cooke. By the latter lady he was the father of “ that 
 glory of his country and the shame,” Sir Francis Bacon, 
 lord Verulam. 
 
 Amongst the galaxy of great statesmen with whom 
 Elizabeth happily managed to surround her throne, there 
 were few whose reputation has passed more spotlessly to 
 our times than that of her temperate and wise lord keeper. 
 His great qualities have conciliated all opinions in his 
 favour. Camden praises highly his sagacious wit, his 
 singular prudence, his consummate eloquence, his tena¬ 
 cious memory, and the solid judgment which rendered 
 him, in his estimation, the other pillar of the state. 
 Quintilian, as we learn from Puttenham, was his frequent 
 study, and his attainments were worthy of such a master; 
 for the graceful spirit of persuasion and eloquence seems 
 to have dwelt upon his lips. With these were mingled 
 moral qualities that entitle him still more to our regard. 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT, NORTH END. 
 
 199 
 
 Though exposed to occasional danger from the intrigues 
 of Leicester, and though well aware of the advantage 
 of that convenient maxim which he taught his mistress 
 — of balancing one faction in the state by another — 
 he disdained to use the arts which many of his rivals 
 practised; and, like some grave and thoughtful statue, 
 reposed with dignity upon the pedestal of his inherent 
 merits. “ He was,” says his son, the chancellor, “ a plain 
 man, direct and constant, without all finesse and double¬ 
 ness,— one who was of a mind that a man, in his private 
 concerns, and in the proceedings of state, should rest 
 upon the soundness and strength of his own courses, and 
 not upon practices to circumvent others so that the 
 subtle Bishop of Ross once said, that it was impossible for 
 a diplomatist to come within his fence, because he offered 
 no play; whilst the Queen-Mother of France was accus¬ 
 tomed to declare, in reference to the same straight-for¬ 
 wardness and constancy of purpose, that he ought to 
 have been of the council of Spain, because he despised 
 all incidental occurrences, and rested only upon the first 
 plot. 
 
 Of the many apophthegms which he delivered, that is 
 perhaps the most memorable to which he gave utterance 
 during some grave debate, which one of the cabinet would 
 have precipitated to a quicker close—“ Let us stay a little , 
 and we shall have done the sooner .” He died Feb. 20, 
 1579, and Buchanan wrote an inscription for his monu¬ 
 ment in St. Paul’s. 
 
200 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 CCLXVI. 
 
 EDWARD COURTNEY, LAST EARL OF DEVONSHIRE, 
 
 jEt. 32. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1523. Died a.d. 1556 - Henry VIII. to Queen Mary. 
 
 Arms; Quarterly; 1, France and England, quarterly, a bordure of the same, for 
 Katharine, daughter of K. Edward IV.; 2 and 3, Or, three torteaux, for 
 Courtney; 4, Or, a lion rampant, sable , for Rivers, Earl or Devon. 
 
 SIR ANTONIO MORE. 
 
 Painted in 1555. The second, but eldest surviving son 
 of Henry, marquess of Exeter, and tenth earl of Devon¬ 
 shire, by his second wife, Gertrude, daughter of William 
 Blount, lord Mountjoy. His father, being nephew to 
 King Edward the Fourth, and cousin-german accordingly 
 to Henry VIII., suffered by an attainder of high treason ; 
 and the same crime, of having royal blood flowing in his 
 veins, subjected the son, from his innocent boyhood, to 
 nearly a twenty years’ imprisonment in the Tower. His 
 days there were not spent ingloriously : the accomplish¬ 
 ments which he acquired set off to greater advantage his 
 graceful dignity of person. Both seem to have made an 
 impression on the rigid bosom of the princess Mary. On 
 her accession to the crown, she not only set him at liberty 
 and restored to him his forfeit title and estates, but made 
 him the tender of her hand. That he refused the dubious 
 honour, in preference of her younger sister, gives us a 
 favourable impression of his taste, good sense, and inde¬ 
 pendence : but the “ spretce injuria forma?” could scarcely 
 be forgiven. That it was not forgotten, may be gathered 
 from the attempt to mix him up with Wyatt’s insur¬ 
 rection, which was made a plea for his second committal 
 to the Tower, whence he was released, as was thought. 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT, N. E. 
 
 201 
 
 by the intercession of Philip of Spain, upon his marriage. 
 His popularity, however, was still thought of sufficient 
 danger to the tranquillity of that austere reign. He had 
 leave to gratify his taste for foreign travel; but had not 
 been long at Padua ere he was seized with an alarming 
 illness, which speedily proved fatal. His contemporaries 
 ascribed his death to poison, and his epitaph, together 
 with the other circumstances of his life, and his known 
 Lutheran prepossessions, have perpetuated this impression 
 to our own times. 
 
 CCLXVII. 
 
 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, JEt. 25. 
 
 Born a.d. 1554. Died a.t>. 1586- Q. Mary to Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms; Or, a pheon, azure , for Sidney ; and, as an heiress, Paly of six, argent and 
 sable , a fesse, gules , for Wat.singham. 
 
 ZUCCHERO. 
 
 The generous, high-principled, and heroic youth — the 
 flower of English chivalry, who was so deservedly the 
 admiration of other countries, and the darling of his own. 
 So far had he realised with the nation and its annalists 
 their beau ideal of a faultless character, that “ one writer 
 gave offence,” observes Lord Orford, amusingly, “ for 
 only questioning, two hundred years after his death, 
 whether all the encomiums showered upon him by them 
 might not have been a little overstrained.” By his early 
 and lamented fall, and the pathetic history of his last 
 hours, Zutphen has acquired a renown in Europe as im¬ 
 perishable as Leuctra or Corunna. Sir Philip was the 
 
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202 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 eldest of the three sons of Sir Henry Sidney, lord deputy 
 of Ireland and president of Wales, by Mary, eldest 
 daughter of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland ; and 
 married Frances, the only daughter and heiress of Sir 
 Francis Walsingham. 
 
 CCLXVIII. 
 
 QUEEN MARY, Mr. 42. 
 
 The same as No. CXXXIII. Painted in 1556, by Sir 
 Antonio More. 
 
 CCLXIX. 
 
 FRANCES, COUNTESS OF SOMERSET. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1593. Died a.d. 1G32- Q. Elizabeth to Charles I. 
 
 Arms; Gules , on a chevron, argent , 3 mullets, sable , in the dexter part of the 
 escocheon, a lion passant guardant, or, for Carr ; impaled with Gules , on a bend 
 between six cross-crosslets, fitch£e, argent , an escocheon, or, charged with a 
 demi-lion rampant, within a double tressure flory counterflory gules , the lion 
 pierced through the mouth with an arrow, azure , for Howard, Earl of 
 Suffolk. 
 
 A name too closely connected in history with that of 
 Sir Thomas Overbury, to require commemoration here. 
 She was the second daughter of Thomas Howard, first 
 earl of Suffolk, lord high treasurer to James I., by Eliza¬ 
 beth, daughter and coheir of Sir Henry Knyvet, of 
 Charlton, in Wiltshire. She married, first, Robert De- 
 vereux, third earl of Essex; and, secondly, Robert Carr, 
 earl of Somerset. 
 
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 203 
 
 CCLXX. 
 
 SIR NICHOLAS THROGMORTON. 
 
 Barn a.d. 1513. Died a.d. 1570 - Henry VIII. to Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms; Gules , on a chevron, argent , five bars gemelles, sable, for Throgmorton; 
 impaled with Or, 3 lions passant, sable, armed and langued gules, for Carew. 
 
 The fourth son of Sir George Throgmorton, of Coughton, 
 in Warwickshire, and Catherine, daughter of Nicholas, 
 lord Vaux; and husband to Anne, daughter of Sir 
 Nicholas Carew. He was chief butler of England, one 
 of the chamberlains of the exchequer, and ambassador 
 leger in France and Scotland, being sent with Francis, 
 second earl of Bedford, to expostulate with Francis and 
 Mary for quartering the arms of England, and to nego¬ 
 tiate, in 1567, with the nobles of Scotland for the libera¬ 
 tion of the latter from her then confinement in Loch- 
 leven Castle. In neither of these missions was Sir Ni¬ 
 cholas successful. 
 
 Lord Orford thus speaks of him :—“ A statesman of 
 abilities, much employed by Queen Elizabeth in arduous 
 negotiations; but who seems to have marred his own 
 fortune by enmity to Burleigh, and by too much attach¬ 
 ment to Leicester, who was suspected of removing him 
 foully, to stifle secrets to which he had been privy. 
 But rumour is no evidence; and Lloyd, who records him 
 in his State Worthies, and who does seem to have been 
 acquainted with much more private history of his per¬ 
 sonages than has otherwise been transmitted to us, is 
 so much fonder of shining than of unfolding, that, having 
 quoted no authorities for his anecdotes, we must not trust 
 
204 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 too much to broken hints, which we should be glad, but 
 are never likely now, to see elucidated.” Sir Nicholas 
 has an alabaster monument to his memory, with his 
 effigies in armour, in the chancel of St. Catharine Cree 
 church, Aldgate. 
 
 CCLXXI. 
 
 ROBERT DEVEREUX, SECOND EARL OF ESSEX. 
 
 Born a.d. 156". Died a.d. 1601.- Q. Elizabeth. 
 
 Arms ; Argent , a fesse gules , in chief 3 torteaux, for Devereux ; and, as an heiress, 
 Paly of six, argent and sable , a fesse gules, for Walsingham. 
 
 Eldest son of Walter Devereux, first earl of that sur¬ 
 name and title, by Lettice, daughter of Sir Francis 
 Knollys, treasurer of the household to Queen Elizabeth. 
 Lord Orford has drawn his character with a more than 
 ordinary care and candour, and thus happily sums up his 
 estimate of the celebrated favourite:—“ The Earl of 
 Essex was gallant, romantic, and ostentatious; and the 
 ladies and the people never ceased to adore him. If 
 the queen’s partiality had not inflated him, he would 
 have made one of the bravest generals, one of the 
 most active statesmen, and the brightest Mecaenas of 
 that accomplished age. With the zeal, though without 
 the discretion of Burleigh, he had nothing of the dark 
 soul of Leicester. Raleigh excelled him in abilities, but 
 came not near him in generosity. It was no small 
 merit to have insisted on giving Bacon to that orb from 
 which one of Bacon’s first employments was to contri¬ 
 bute to expel his benefactor. The earl had a solemn 
 tincture of religion, of which his enemies availed them- 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT, L. H. 
 
 205 
 
 selves to work him to the greatest blemish of his life,— 
 the discovery of the abettors of his last rash design. He 
 had scarce a fault beside which did not flow from the 
 nobleness of his nature.” 
 
 The painting represents him as Lord Deputy of 
 Ireland, with a wand, the end of which is emblazoned 
 with the royal arms. He married the widow of Sir 
 Philip Sidney, Frances, sole daughter and heiress to 
 Secretary Walsingham, 
 
 CCLXXII. 
 
 THOMAS CECIL, FIRST EARL OF EXETER. 
 
 Born a.d. 1542. Died a.d. 1G22. - Ilenry VIII. to James I. 
 
 Arms ; Barry of ten, argent and azure , over all six escocheons, 3, 2, and 1, sable, each 
 charged with a lion rampant of the field, for Cecil ; impaled with Brydges, as 
 before. 
 
 MARK GARRARD. 
 
 Painted in 1612. The elder son of the great Lord Bur¬ 
 leigh, by his first wife Mary, sister of Sir John Cheke, 
 tutor to Edward the Sixth. He married, for his second 
 lady, Frances, eldest daughter of William Brydges, fourth 
 lord Chandos. 
 
 After distinguishing himself at the siege of Edinburgh 
 Castle, under Sir William Drury, in 1573, he was knighted 
 during Queen Elizabeth’s splendid visit to her favourite 
 Leicester at Kenilworth. He also served some years in 
 the Low Countries, and was actively engaged in the 
 defeat of the Spanish Armada. With the military repu¬ 
 tation which he thus obtained, his ambition rested satis¬ 
 fied ; preferring, after he succeeded to his father’s title in 
 
206 
 
 GALLERY. 
 
 1598, the tranquillity and privacy of home-enjoyments to 
 the busy career of state-intrigue and power, upon which 
 his younger brother so prominently entered. After be¬ 
 ing honoured with the garter in 1601, he was raised to 
 the peerage on the 4th of May, 1605, by the title of the 
 Earl of Exeter, a distinction which he had modestly de¬ 
 clined when it was first offered him; and died in 1622, 
 with a spotless character for integrity and private worth. 
 
 CCLXXIII. 
 
 ROBERT CECIL, FIRST EARL OF SALISBURY. 
 
 Born about a.d. 1563. Died a.d. 1612- Q. Elizabeth to James I. 
 
 Arms; Cecil, with a crescent for difference; impaled with Gules , on a chevron, 
 argent , a lion rampant, sable , crowned or, for Brooke. 
 
 MARK GARRARD. 
 
 The celebrated secretary to Queen Elizabeth and James 
 I., younger brother of the preceding nobleman, by his 
 father’s second wife, Mildred, daughter of Sir Anthony 
 Cooke. He married Elizabeth, sister of the unfortunate 
 Henry Brooke, lord Cobham. 
 
 Of the moral qualities of this adroit statesman, Lord 
 Orford appears to have had the most despicable opinion. 
 He says of him; -— “ it were sufficient to blast his 
 memory, that on the accession of James I., when there 
 was a proposal for obtaining from him a capitulation or 
 charter of liberty, the scheme was defeated by Sir Robert 
 Cecilthat " his base nature was capable of any ingra¬ 
 titude,” excepting only, that “ though treacherous to every 
 body else, he did not supplant his own father.” Dr. Birch 
 
LAST COMPARTMENT, L. H. 
 
 207 
 
 paints his character with brighter touches; but after 
 making e\eiy allowance for his failings as a minister 
 which candour and the practice of a more constitutional, 
 if not a purer, age may prescribe, there will, we fear, re¬ 
 main a large residuum of alloy, which cannot be purged 
 away. 
 
 His talents, his subtle and designing spirit, the deep 
 artifice and dissimulation which he practised, and the 
 many political victims whom he either drew into his secret 
 snares, or more surreptitiously betrayed, have always 
 combined, in our fancy, with his dwarfish and distorted 
 figure, as forming a significant counterpart to the power¬ 
 ful personification which Sir Walter Scott has presented 
 to us in the character of Rashleigh Osbaldeston. Yet, 
 reasons of state policy may have reconciled to his own 
 bosom many of those actions upon which the voice of 
 history has cast the deepest censure. His last hours are 
 held up by the pen of his contemporaries, as presenting an 
 edifying picture of Christian piety and resignation ; and it 
 is no pa# of the duty of a biographer or commentator to 
 disturb with distrust the worth of such memorials, when 
 in harmony with other evidence. Addressing himself, in 
 his last illness, to Sir Walter Cope, he said, “ Ease and 
 pleasure quake to hear of death; but my life, full of 
 cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved.” 
 
HOUSEKEEPER’S ROOM. 
 
 E E 
 
housekeeper’s room. 
 
 211 
 
 CCLXXIV. to CCLXXIX. 
 
 ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD, AND 
 HER FAMILY. 
 
 Arms , as before. 
 
 JERVAS. 
 
 A LARGE picture, representing the family of Elizabeth 
 Howland, duchess of Bedford, after the loss of her hus¬ 
 band, Wriothesley, second duke of Bedford, whose portrait 
 is seen in an oval, decorated with the garter, which, on 
 the decease of the duke his grandfather, William and 
 Mary conferred upon him, at the request of his mother, 
 Rachel, lady Russell. The time is evening. Kneeling 
 before the duchess, at his vesper prayers, is her eldest 
 son, Wriothesley, afterwards third duke of Bedford. Her 
 eldest daughter, Rachel, subsequently duchess of Bridge- 
 water, has hold of the hand of her infant brother, John, 
 afterwards fourth duke, beside whom is her younger 
 sister Elizabeth, who, by marriage into the Capel family, 
 was grandmother to the present Earl of Essex. 
 
212 
 
 housekeeper’s room. 
 
 CCLXXX. CCLXXXI. 
 
 GERTRUDE, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD, and her 
 daughter, LADY CAROLINE RUSSELL. 
 
 GAVIN HAMILTON. 
 
 A painting of equally large dimensions with the former, 
 but which indicates, in its composition, colouring, and 
 every thing which constitutes the illusion and the charm 
 of art, the vast superiority of this artist to the former. 
 The duchess, in a style of fancy now happily exploded, 
 is depicted as presenting her daughter to the tutelage of 
 Minerva, who is attended by the muses of History and 
 p oe t r y—whilst the Graces, introduced as handmaids to 
 the young maiden, are engaged in culling chaplets of 
 roses for her brow—figures, the grace and majesty of 
 which almost excuse the error of the artist, in thus 
 seeking to combine fable with domestic truth. 
 
ADDENDUM. 
 
 Sir Edward Rogers (No. CCIX.), as appears from a 
 pedigree in the Harleian Collection, married Mary, 
 daughter and heiress of John Lysle, or Lysley, of the 
 Isle of Wight. 
 
ALPHABETICAL INDEX 
 
 TO 
 
 THE PORTRAITS. 
 
 *** Where the Portraits are those of titled personages, reference must be made to the title, 
 and not to the family name. 
 
 Albemarle, Anne Lennox, Countess of . 
 
 -Arnold Joorst Van Keppel, first Earl of .. 
 
 -George Monk, Duke of. 
 
 - Isabella-Gertrude-Querina Vander Duin, 
 
 Countess of. 
 
 -William-Anne Keppel, second Earl of.... 
 
 Arpino, Giuseppe Cesare, II Cavalier d’. 
 
 Austria, Philip the Handsome, Archduke of. 
 
 Ayscough, Lady Anne. 
 
 Painter. 
 
 Himself. 
 
 Ketel 
 
 Page. 
 
 27 
 
 24 
 157 
 
 25 
 
 26 
 123 
 
 83 
 
 150 
 
 Bacon, Sir Nicholas. Zucchero _ 198 
 
 Barocci, Giacomo, da Vignola. G. Bassan _ 113 
 
 Bedford, Ann Carr, Countess of, in youth. 25 
 
 in blue, drawing on a 
 
 glove . 
 
 -whole-length, in white.. 
 
 -— in small . 
 
 — Anne Egerton, Duchess of, in coronation robes 
 
 - in an oval . 
 
 -- whole - length, in 
 
 blue, attended by a black domestic.. 
 
 --— in loose drapery .. 
 
 --- in coronation robes 
 
 -———- in an oval . 
 
 Vandyck .... 
 Vandyck .... 
 Theo. Russell . 
 
 Whood . 
 
 Whood . 
 
 Jervas . 
 
 Jervas . 
 
 Whood . 
 
 Whood . 
 
 Whood . 
 
 62 
 
 91 
 
 179 
 
 29 
 
 32 
 
 56 
 
 ib. 
 
 131 
 
 133 
 
 134 
 
216 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Painter. Page. 
 
 Bedford, Diana Spencer, Duchess of. Hudson . 55 
 
 _ Edward Russell, third Earl of. Mark Garrard 11 
 
 _.... My tens . 167 
 
 - Elizabeth Howland, Duchess of, sitting. Wissing . 35 
 
 ______—-as a child with 
 
 her mother. Closterman .. 58 
 
 _____ with her hus- 
 
 ... Kneller . 133 
 
 _ ___with her family Jervas . 211 
 
 Francis Russell, second Earl of, in a small circle Unknown .... 6 
 
 _ _ with the garter Zucchero . 171 
 
 _fourth Earl of, as a boy, with 
 
 band 
 
 1 ^ 
 
 a hawk upon his fist.*. 10 
 
 ___ as a youth .. C. Jansen .... ib. 
 
 ___._ whole-length Vandyck .... 91 
 
 __ fifth Duke of. Hoppner . 88 
 
 Gertrude-Levison Gower, Duchess of, in coro- 
 
 with a 
 
 Sir J. Reynolds 
 
 67 
 
 . 
 
 Hudson . 
 
 130 
 
 ____ introdu- 
 
 
 
 cing her daughter to Minerva. 
 
 G. Hamilton .. 
 
 212 
 
 ___ sitting, 
 
 
 
 
 Sir J. Reynolds 
 
 71 
 
 _ John Russell, first Earl of, with comptroller’s 
 
 
 
 
 Holbein . 
 
 5 
 
 in old age . 
 
 Holbein . 
 
 149 
 
 fourth Duke of, in blue. 
 
 Hudson . 
 
 57 
 
 __—— in coronation robes 
 
 Sir J. Reynolds 
 
 69 
 
 _____ in scarlet. 
 
 Gainsborough . 
 
 102 
 
 Katharine Brydges, Countess of, in youth .. 
 
 
 17 
 
 __— in a scenic 
 
 
 
 
 M. Garrard .. 
 
 12 
 
 with lilies . . 
 
 C. Jansen .... 
 
 39 
 
 . Lucy Harrington, Countess of. with a large veil 
 
 M. Garrard .. 
 
 10 
 
 in black . 
 
 Honthorst .... 
 
 173 
 
 William Russell, first Duke of, in youth. 
 
 Priwitzer .... 
 
 150 
 
 ____ with his brother- 
 
 
 
 in-law . 
 
 after Vandyck 
 
 99 
 
 ______ in his robes of the 
 
 
 Garter . 
 
 Kneller . 
 
 155 
 
 Wriotheslev, second Duke of, as a boy. 
 
 Kneller . 
 
 23 
 
INDEX. 
 
 217 
 
 Painter. Page. 
 
 Bedford, Wriothesley, second Duke of, with his lady .... 
 
 - in later life. 
 
 --third Duke of, in coronation robes 
 
 -—- reading. 
 
 —-— John Russell, sixth Duke of, .... in enamel.. 
 
 - Georgiana Gordon, Duchess of .... ditto.... 
 
 Binlos, Elizabeth, Lady . 
 
 Bingham, Sir Richard. 
 
 Berkshire, Dorothy, Countess of ... 
 
 Bohemia, Elizabeth, Queen of. 
 
 Bone, Henry. 
 
 Both, John .. 
 
 Bradford, Diana Russell, afterwards Countess of, set. 5 
 Bristol, Anne Russell, Countess of, set. 12.... .. 
 
 - George Digby, afterwards Earl of. 
 
 Brook, Katharine Russell, Lady, set. 13. . , 
 
 Buckingham, Mary Fairfax, Duchess of. .. 
 Burleigh, William Cecil, Lord. 
 
 Whood . 
 
 133 
 
 Jervas . 
 
 211 
 
 Whood . 
 
 131 
 
 Whood . 
 
 134 
 
 H. Bone . 
 
 83 
 
 H. Bone . 
 
 ib. 
 
 
 165 
 
 
 196 
 
 Th. Russell .. 
 
 181 
 
 G. Honthorst .. 
 
 44 
 
 Harlow . 
 
 84 
 
 Himself . 
 
 119 
 
 Priwitzer .... 
 
 172 
 
 Priwitzer .... 
 
 ib. 
 
 Th. Russell .. 
 
 176 
 
 after Vandyck 
 
 99 
 
 Priwitzer .... 
 
 183 
 
 Th. Russell .. 
 
 177 
 
 Walker . 
 
 141 
 
 M. Garrard . . 
 
 189 
 
 Canova, Sir Antonio. 
 
 Carey, Margaret Smith, Lady. 
 
 Carlisle, James Hay, second Earl of. 
 
 -— Margaret Russell, Countess of, set. 9 
 
 -———-- with her niece 
 
 Carteret, Lady Georgiana-Carolina. 
 
 Castile, Joanna of,-in enamel . 
 
 Chandos, Frances Clinton, Lady. 
 
 - Giles, third Lord. 
 
 Charles the First, King- . 
 
 Child, Sir Josiah. 
 
 Colbert, Jean Baptiste. 
 
 Coventry, Maria Gunning, Countess of. 
 
 Cumberland, Margaret Russell, Countess of .. 
 Cuyp, Albert ... 
 
 G. Hay ter .... 125 
 
 Vandyck .... 92 
 
 Walker . 163 
 
 Priwitzer .... 172 
 Th. Russell .. 174 
 after Vandyck 20 
 Whood . 135 
 
 H. Rone . 83 
 
 J. Custodis ... 15 
 
 J. Custodis ... 14 
 
 Vandyck . 92 
 
 Kneller . 38 
 
 Riley . 136 
 
 P .de Champagne], 10 
 G. Hamilton .. 75 
 
 . 187 
 
 Himself . 122 
 
 Danby, Henry Danvers, Earl of 
 
 Denmark, Anne of. 
 
 Descartes, Rene . 
 
 Mirevelt . 154 
 
 Pourbus . 3 
 
 P. deChampagnel24 
 
21S 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Painter. Page. 
 
 Devonshire, Edward Courtney, last Earl of . 200 
 
 _ Christiana, Countess of. Th. Russell .. 179 
 
 Douw, Gerard. * . Rembrandt. . .. 122 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen. 
 
 Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl of 
 Exeter, Thomas-Cecil, first Earl of.... 
 
 Ferdinand, Prince, of Spain. Rubens 
 
 . 191 
 
 . 204 
 
 Mark Garrard 205 
 
 Garrick, David.'.. 
 
 Gentleman unknown . 
 
 Girl with cockatoo . 
 
 Goldsmith, Oliver.. . 
 
 Gorges, Sir Edward. 
 
 Gower, John, first Earl . 
 
 Grafton, Elizabeth, Duchess of 
 
 Grey, Lady Margaret. 
 
 Guercino, G. F. Barbieri, II..» 
 
 Sir J. Reynolds 124 
 R. Philips. ... 32 
 
 Verelst . 23 
 
 Sir J. Reynolds 124 
 C. Jansen ... 194 
 
 Ramsay . 28 
 
 Gainsborough . 31 
 
 . 156 
 
 Himself . 120 
 
 Hals, Francis. Himself ... 
 
 Harrington, John, second Lord. 
 
 Hayter, George . Himself ... 
 
 Henrietta Maria, Queen . Vandyck . 
 
 Herbert, Margaret, Lady. ^ usse ^ 
 
 Hogarth, William ... Himself ... 
 
 Howland, Elizabeth, of Streatham. Whood .. . 
 
 ------with her daughter ... Closterman 
 
 — _John, Esq. Riley . 
 
 . 115 
 ...47 
 . 79 
 . 94 
 17,92 
 . 80 
 . 137 
 . 58 
 . 136 
 
 Jode, Peter de, the younger, and his family. Himself . 118 
 
 Kennedy, Elizabeth Brydges, Lady (supposed) 
 
 --Sir John. (ditto) 
 
 Keppel, Augustus, Admiral . 
 
 Killigrew, Thomas . 
 
 Kneller, Sir Godfrey . 
 
 Kupetski, John . 
 
 M. Garrard .. 180 
 C. Jansen .... 174 
 Sir J. Reynolds 61 
 Sheppard .... 158 
 
 Himself . Ill 
 
 Himself . 109 
 
 Lanfranco, Giovanni . 
 
 Le Roy, Le Chevalier Philippe . 
 
 Lincoln, Edward Clinton, first Earl of 
 
 Himself . 
 Vandyck 
 C.Ketel. 
 
 107 
 
 109 
 
 49 
 
INDEX. 
 
 219 
 
 Lincoln, Edward Clinton, first Earl of. 
 
 Painter. 
 
 Page. 
 
 . .. 192 
 
 Elizabeth, Countess of .. (Geraldine) .... 
 
 
 ... 185 
 
 Louis the Fifteenth of France . 
 
 
 ... 103 
 
 Luke, Elizabeth Freeman, Lady. 
 
 
 ... 141 
 
 - Sir Samuel. 
 
 
 ... 140 
 
 Mallery, Charles de. 
 
 Manchester, Edward Montagu, second earl of. 
 
 Mary, Queen. 
 
 -with her husband . 
 
 Marlborough, Caroline Russell, Duchess of, with her 
 
 mother . 
 
 ---——— sitting. 
 
 —-- Charles Spencer, second Duke of 
 
 - John Churchill, first Duke of. 
 
 -- Sarah Jennings, Duchess of. 
 
 -——-with the gold key 
 
 Miraeus, Albert . 
 
 Mirevelt, Michael Jansen . . 
 
 Monmouth and Buccleugh, James Scott, Duke of 
 
 More, Sir Antonio . 
 
 Morelli, Bartolomeo-Estevan. 
 
 Mytens, Daniel, and his wife. 
 
 Nassau, Count de. 
 
 Newport, Diana Russell, Lady, aet. 5. 
 
 -—-in youth. 
 
 --— Countess of. . . 
 
 Nobleman unknown . 
 
 Northumberland, Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of. 
 
 -Henry Percy, ninth Earl of. 
 
 Orleans, Henrietta, Duchess of. 
 
 Pareja, Don Adrian Paulido . 
 
 Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery, Anne Clifford, 
 
 Countess of. 
 
 Percy, Sir Josceline. 
 
 Personage unknown . 
 
 Pepyn, Martin. 
 
 Philip of Spain. 
 
 Vandyck .... 
 
 115 
 
 Wissing . 
 
 175 
 
 Sir A. More .. 
 
 202 
 
 Sir A. More .. 
 
 101 
 
 G. Hamilton .. 
 
 212 
 
 Sir J. Reynolds 
 
 67 
 
 Gainsborough .. 
 
 99 
 
 Whood . 
 
 30 
 
 Whood . 
 
 130 
 
 Jervas . 
 
 33 
 
 Whood . 
 
 129 
 
 Vandyck .... 
 
 94 
 
 Himself . 
 
 112 
 
 
 162 
 
 Himself . 
 
 123 
 
 Himself . 
 
 116 
 
 Vandyck .... 
 
 107 
 
 152 
 
 Priwitzer .... 
 
 172 
 
 Th. Russell ... 
 
 174 
 
 after Lely .. .. 
 
 18 
 
 Vandyck .... 
 
 96 
 
 after Vandyck 
 
 95 
 
 Mirevelt . .. 
 
 153 
 
 Vandyck .... 
 
 96 
 
 Velasquez .... 
 
 87 
 
 G. Jack . 
 
 40 
 
 C. Jansen .... 
 
 195 
 
 Himself . 
 
 y 
 
 118 
 
 Sir A. More .. 
 
 101 
 
220 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Ponte, Leandro da (Bassan) . 
 
 Portland, Richard Weston, Earl of 
 
 Painter. Page. 
 
 Himself . 121 
 
 My tens . 39 
 
 Rembrandt Van Rhyn ... Himself 
 
 Reynolds, Sir Joshua... Himself . 
 
 Rogers, Sir Edward. Sir Antonio More 
 
 _Samuel, Esq. G • Hay ter .... 
 
 Rubens, Sir Peter Paul ... 
 
 Russell, v. Bedford : — 
 
 -- Enamel Portraits of the family of. Henry Bone .. 
 
 -Anne, with a cockatoo . Verelst . 
 
 — -— Lady Anne, with her sister . Vandyck .... 
 
 -Catherine, with her sister. Kneller . 
 
 -Lady Diana, with her sister. Vandyck .... 
 
 -Colonel Edward, in armour . Th. Russell .. 
 
 -Lord Edward, sitting. Riley . 
 
 _Edward, Lord, with a coil of snakes. Zucchero - 
 
 -Elizabeth, Lady, of Chippenham. M. Garrard .. 
 
 __Francis, second son of fourth Earl of Bedford, 
 
 ^ g . Priwitzer .... 
 
 ______ in armour . G. Honthorst.. 
 
 _Sir Francis, afterwards Lord. 
 
 — -Francis, Lord. Le Fevre .... 
 
 _Colonel John, set. 7 . Priwitzer .... 
 
 ____- . J. Hayls .... 
 
 -- Lord John, M.P. G. Hay ter .... 
 
 _Rachel, with her sister . Kneller . 
 
 -- Rachel, Lady . 
 
 _- Wriothesley, Lord. Kneller . 
 
 -- Sir William of Chippenham. M. Garrard .. 
 
 _with his brother-in-law. after Vandyck 
 
 _- William, afterwards Lord, in armour. Le Fevre - 
 
 - Lord George-William, as aide-de-camp to the 
 
 Duke of Wellington . G. Hay ter - 
 
 _William, Lord, sitting . Lely . 
 
 ---in an oval . Kneller . 
 
 Rutland, Francis Manners, sixth Earl of . 
 
 112 
 
 119 
 151 
 
 120 
 108 
 
 83 
 
 23 
 
 101 
 
 132 
 
 101 
 
 182 
 
 138 
 
 170 
 
 47 
 
 183 
 
 167 
 
 168 
 69 
 
 183 
 
 169 
 
 79 
 
 132 
 
 161 
 
 23 
 
 46 
 
 99 
 
 71 
 
 56 
 
 138 
 
 160 
 
 149 
 
 Salisbury, Catherine Howard, Countess of . 
 
 -Robert Cecil, first Earl of. 
 
 Seymour, Queen Jane. Holbein . 
 
 Siddons, Miss Sarah. I . SirT. Lawrence 
 
 184 
 
 206 
 
 159 
 
 75 
 
INDEX. 
 
 221 
 
 Sidney, Sir Philip.... 
 
 Snellinck, John.... 
 
 Somerset, Frances, Countess of. 
 
 Southampton, Elizabeth Vernon, Countess of ... 
 
 -Henry Wriothesley, Earl of....... 
 
 —-Rachel de Rouvigny, Countess of . 
 
 -Thomas Wriothesley, first Earl of . 
 
 - -—— fourth Earl of 
 
 Spencer, Honourable John. 
 
 *-Penelope, Lady. 
 
 Stradling, Sir Edward. 
 
 Steen, Jan .. 
 
 Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of ... 
 
 -Thomas Howard, first Earl of (supposed) . 
 
 Sunderland, Charles Spencer, third Earl of. 
 
 —-fourth Earl of. 
 
 Sussex, Thomas Ratcliffe, third Earl of. 
 
 Painter. Page. 
 
 . 201 
 
 Vandyck . 117 
 
 . 202 
 
 C. Jansen .... 165 
 Mirevelt .... 180 
 after Vandyck 37 
 
 Holbein . 50 
 
 Dobson . 178 
 
 Whood . 137 
 
 C. Jansen .... 42 
 
 Dobson . 164 
 
 Himself . 119 
 
 Holbein . 192 
 
 .. 45 
 
 Whood . 36 
 
 R. Philips .... 31 
 
 . 148 
 
 Tavistock, Elizabeth Keppel, Marchioness of (head) .... 
 
 --—-(ditto).... 
 
 “ --sitting . 
 
 -——-as bridemaid to the Queen 
 
 -Francis Russell, Marquess of, sitting . 
 
 ---in dress of the Dunstable 
 
 Sir J. Reynolds 103 
 Sir J. Reynolds 129 
 Sir J. Reynolds 63 
 Sir J. Reynolds 87 
 Sir J. Reynolds 64 
 
 Hunt. Sir J. Reynolds 
 
 ----Bedfordshire militia. Batoni . 
 
 Teniers, David, the younger. Himself . 
 
 Tintoretto, II . Himself . 
 
 with Titian and P. Veronese. Titian . 
 
 Thornhaugh, Elizabeth Long, Baroness of. Lucas de Heere 
 
 -William Russell, Baron of. 
 
 whole-length 
 
 -Francis Russell, afterwards Baron of. C. Jansen 
 
 Thornton, Rev. John... Walker . 
 
 Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas . 
 
 Tiziano Vecelli. Himself . 
 
 - with Tintoret and P. Veronese . Himself . 
 
 Torrington, George Byng, first Viscount . Kneller . 
 
 -Pattee Byng, second Viscount. 
 
 68 
 
 132 
 
 114 
 
 117 
 
 120 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 49 
 
 167 
 
 13 
 
 41 
 
 203 
 
 111 
 
 120 
 
 54 
 
 ib. 
 
 Van der Wouver, John 
 
 Vandyck .... 116 
 
222 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 Painter. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Vandyck, Sir Antonio. 
 
 . . Vandyck .... 
 
 . 121 
 
 Veronese, Paolo Cagliari....:. 
 
 
 . 122 
 
 -with Titian and Tintoretto .. 
 
 .. Titian . 
 
 . 120 
 
 Verney, Diana-Russell, Lady. 
 
 . . Lely . 
 
 . 22 
 
 -Sir Greville. 
 
 .. Lely . 
 
 . 21 
 
 
 
 . 113 
 
 Villiers, Frederick-William, Viscount. 
 
 
 . 57 
 
 Warwick, Ambrose Dudley, Earl of. 
 
 
 . 147 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 169 
 
 Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of. 
 
 
 . 56 
 
 Wimbleton, Viscountess. 
 
 
 . 166 
 
 Wrottesley, Hon. Miss .. 
 
 
 .. 32 
 
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