CATALOGUE 
 
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 THE COLLECTION OF 
 
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 Family Portraits 
 
 FROM 
 
 BILTON HALL, 
 
 RUGBY, 
 
 FORMERLY BELONGING TO 
 
 JOSEPH ADDISON 
 
 AND THE 
 
 COUNTESS OF WARWICK; 
 
 The Pictures are said to have been brought to Biiton Hall 
 from Holland House: 
 
 WHICH 
 
 SEtll lie Solti bu Auction lio 
 
 Messrs, CHRISTIE, MANSON & WOODS. 
 
 AT THEIR GREAT ROOMS, 
 
 8 KING STREET, ST. JAMES’S SQUARE, 
 
 On SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1898, 
 
 AT ONE O’CLOCK PRECISELY. 
 
 May be viewed Three Days preceding, and Catalogues had, 
 at Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods’ Offices, 8 King Street, 
 St. James's Square, S. TV. 
 
CONDITIONS OF SALE. 
 
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 I. THE highest Bidder to be the Buyer; and if any disputo arise 
 
 between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be 
 immediately put up again and re-sold. 
 
 II. No person to advance less than Is.; above Five Pounds, 5s.; and 
 
 so on in proportion. 
 
 ill. In the case of Lots upon which there is a reserve, the Auctioneer 
 shall have the right to bid on behalf of the Seller. 
 
 IV. The Purchasers to give in their Names and Places of Abode, and 
 to pay down 5s. in the Pound, or more, in part of payment, or 
 the whole of the Purchase-Money, if required ; in default of 
 which, the Lot or Lots so purchased to be immediately put up 
 again and re-sold. 
 
 Y. The Lots to be taken away and paid for, whether genuine and 
 authentic or not, with all faults and errors of description, at 
 the Buyer’s expense and risk, within Two days from the Sale; 
 Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods not being responsible 
 for the correct description, genuineness, or authenticity of, or 
 any fault or defect in, any Lot; and making no warranty 
 whatever. 
 
 VI. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery, and inconvenience in the 
 settlement of the Purchases, no lot can on any account bo 
 removed during the time of Sale; and the remainder of the 
 Purchase-Money must absolutely be paid on the delivery. 
 
 VII. Upon failure of complying with the above conditions, the money 
 deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited; all Lots un¬ 
 cleared within the time aforesaid shall be re-sold by public or 
 private Sale, and the deficiency (if any) attending such re-sale 
 shall be made good by the Defaulter at this Sale. 
 
CATALOGUE. 
 
 On SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1898, 
 
 AT ONE O’CLOCK PRECISELY. 
 
 The descriptions of the Portraits are taken from the ‘ Catalogue of 
 Portraits at Bilton Hcjll ,’ by E. Bridgeman Simpson. 
 
 THE BILTON HALL COLLECTION. 
 
 UNKNOWN. 
 
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 1 Fruit on a Table— unframel 
 25 in. by 30 in. 
 
 ° 2 Portrait of an Old Lady, in black dress and coif, with pearl 
 necklace 
 
 29 in. by 24 in. 
 
 & 3 A Man, in brown dress and large wig 
 29£ in. by 24^ in. 
 
 , & 4 Heads of Two Ladies, in dresses with white sleeves, and garlands 
 
 
 of flowers in their hair 
 241; in. by 29 in, 
 
 5 Portraits of a Man, in armour, with brown wig; and A Lady, 
 
 in blue dress, supposed to be Captain and Mrs, Addison 2 ^ 
 29 in. by 24 in. 
 
4 
 
 Lady Jane Grey, daughter of tlic Duke of Suffolk. She was 
 horn 153-9 ; married Dudley, fourth son of John Sutton, 
 who was created Earl of Warwick, afterwards 1st Duke of 
 Northumberland, and beheaded in 1553. From the window 
 of her prison on Tower Hill she saw her husband, Lord 1 
 Dudley, pass to his execution, which he bore with much 
 Christian meekness, and about an hour after she was led to 
 the scaffold, 1554. 
 
 In brown dress, with ruff and veil 
 
 nc was ica to 
 
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 30 in. by 25 in. 
 
 P. DE CHAMPAGNE. 
 
 7 Anne of Austria, Queen of France, wife of Louis XIII., King of 
 France. 
 
 In light blue dress, and long cloak embroidered with fleur- 
 ile-lis in gold, the bodice and slashed sleeves richly ornamented 
 with jewels, large lace ruff and diamond crown ; red curtain 
 background 
 
 90 in. by G2 m. 
 
 M. DAHL, 
 
 8 Portrait of Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham, born 23rd 
 December 1621; entered the Inner Temple, November 1638 ; 
 was called to the Bar, January 1645 ; in 1660, after being 
 first knighted and then made a baronet, he was made Solicitor- 
 General, and ten years later he succeeded Sir Jeffrey Palmer 
 as Attoruey-General; in 1673 he was made Lord Keeper, and 
 received the Great Seal of England; in 1675 he was made 
 Lord Chancellor; and in 1681 he was created Earl of 
 Nottingham. He died in 1682, and was buried in the parish 
 church of Eavenstone in Buckinghamshire, where a splendid 
 monument was erected by his eldest son. 
 
 In a dark rich red dress, with cape of white ermi 
 coronet on a table by his side 
 50 in. by 40 in. 
 
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 M. DAHL. 
 
 9 Edward Henry Rich, 7th Earl of Warwick and 4th Earl of 
 / Holland, when a hoy ; he was the only son of Edward Rich, 
 
 ? ' ^ 6th Earl of Warwick and 3rd Earl of Holland, and Charlotte, 
 daughter of Sir Thomas Middleton; in 1721 he was made 
 Lord of the Bedchamber to his Majesty King George I., but 
 died on the 16th August in that year, when his titles descended 
 to his relative Edward Rich, son of Cope Rich, and grandson 
 of Cope Rich who was 4th son of Henry of Holland, K.G. 
 
 In blue coat with red robe, standing 
 landscape 
 
 64 in. by 48 in. 
 
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 10 James Hamilton, 3rd Marquis of Hamilton, Marquis of 
 Clydesdale, Earl of Arran and Cambridge, Lord Avon and 
 ^ Iverdale, K.G.; created Duke of Hamilton, 1643, eldest son 
 
 of James, 2nd Marquis, K.G., and Lady Anne Cunningham, , t . , 
 
 daughter of James, 7th Earl of Glencairn ; married Mary, 
 daughter of William Fielding, 1st Earl of Denbigh. Was 
 taken prisoner by the Parliamentarians at the battle of 
 Preston, 17th August 1648, and beheaded in Old Palace 
 Turd, 9th March 1649. 
 
 In black silk dress with cloak, large laco collar, with Order 
 Badge and Ribbon of the Garter, holding liis hatpin his^pght ^ ' 
 
 
 Whole length —80 in. by 51 in. 
 
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 SIR BALTHAZAR GEliBIER. 
 
 
 11 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, tlie younger son 
 
 of Sir George Villiers ; ho was a great favourite of James I., 
 who created him Duke and who impiously gave him the 
 nickname of “ Steeny ” from his likeness to a picture of 
 St. Stephen. The Duke was employed to bring Queen 
 Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I., to England. In 1626, 
 when Charles I. plunged into his first war with France, for 
 the relief of the Huguenots at La Rochelle, tho Duke was 
 made a General. He was stabbed by Felton, a Puritan, in 
 1628, at Portsmouth, and was buried in St. Thomas’ Church 
 
 there. The Duke was tho son of Sir George Villiers and 
 
 Mary, daughter of Anthony Beaumont, of Glenfield, who was 
 created Countess of Buckingham; ho married Katherine, 
 daughter and heiress of Francis Manners, 6th Earl of 
 Rutland. 
 
 In brown dress embroidered with gold and silver threads, 
 lace collar, high buff boots, holding a baton in his right hand;X 
 
 the town of Rochelle in the distance 
 Whole length —85 in. by 48 in. 
 
 
 MARK GARRARD. 
 
 
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 12 King James I. of England, and VI. of Scotland. He was 
 , O the son of Mary Queen of Scots and Henry, Lord Darnley ; 
 he was born 1566, crowned King of England 1603, and died 
 1625; he married Anne of Denmark. He was called by the 
 great Duke Sully “ Tho wisest fool in Christendom.” 
 
 In grey dress, with fur cloak, black hat, standing, leaning 
 
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 on a table 
 
 
 Signed 
 
 80 in. by 51 in. 
 
 
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 SIR G. KNELLER. 
 
 13 Portrait of Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax, born at 
 Horton, Northamptonshire, 1661; was the son of Georgo 
 Montague, younger son of Henry, 1st Earl of Manchester; 
 he was created Earl of Halifax at the accession of George I., 
 and died in 1715. His poetry was much admired by Addison 
 and other poets of his day. He married Anno, daughter of 
 Sir Christopher Yelverton, Bart., and, dying without issue, 
 was succeeded by his nephew George (son of his elder brother 
 George), who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Pelham, 
 Bart., (and aunt of Thomas Hollis, Duke of Newcastle). 
 
 In brown dress, with looso blue robe, largo 
 arm resting on a pedestal 
 50 in. by 40 in. 
 
 SIR G. KNELLER. 
 
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 14 Portrait of James Craggs, Secretary of State; was the only 
 son of James Craggs; he was made Postmaster General, 
 and after the resignation of Addison he succeeded him as 
 Secretary of State, being the youngest man who at that time 
 bad ever obtained that high office ; lie died in the year 1720 
 or 1721; his abilities and knowledge of business wore con¬ 
 siderable ; be was much esteemed by Addison, who had his 
 picture, with those of his other friends, at Bilton Hall; he 
 was related to Lord St. Germans ; his family, originally seated 
 in Devonshire, removed into Cornwall in the fifteenth century, 
 and one of its descendants was Sir John Eliot, the celebrated 
 opponent of the Court party in the reign of Charles I. The 
 first Lord Eliot assumed the name of Craggs, and was grand¬ 
 son maternally of the Right Honourable James Craggs. 
 
 In a light blue coat, standing near a table on which there 
 is a letter directed to his Catholic Majesty, Charles III., re¬ 
 ferring to the German Archduke Charles, who, in the war of 
 the Spanish succession in Queen Anne's reign, was adopted by 
 the Germans and English as King of Spain under the abovo 
 title, and was still so addressed after the Peace of Utrecht 
 48£ in. by 39 in. 
 
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 SIR G. KNELLEE. 
 
 15 Portrait of Joseph Addison, son of Launcelot Addison, Dean 
 of Lichfield ; in 1706 he was made Secretary of State under 
 Sir Charles Hedges; in 1714 the Earl of Sunderland was 
 0 appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and Addison went to 
 Dublin with him as Chief Secretary ; in 1716 he married 
 Charlotte, Countess of Warwick and Holland, and died at 
 Holland House in 1719, and was buried in Westminster 
 
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 In a blue dress with red drapery, near a table on which 
 aro papers and a letter addressed ‘ Au Lords J usticiers de la 
 Grande Bretagne.’ Addison’s letter to the Lords Justices 
 refers to the body of ministers who governed England during 
 the frequent absences of the Hanoverian sovereigns^on visits 
 to Hanover 
 
 50 in. by 40 in. 
 
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 SIR G. KNELLER. 
 
 16 Portrait of Charlotte, Countess of Warwick and Holland; 
 
 O was the daughter of Sir Thomas Middleton, and grand¬ 
 daughter of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, the Lord Keeper. She 
 married, first, Edward Rich, 6th Earl of Warwick and 3rd 
 Earl of Holland (who died in 1701) ; and secondly, in 1716, 
 Joseph Addison. By the Earl of Warwick and Holland she 
 had one son, Edward Henry, 7th Earl of Warwick and 4th 
 Earl of Holland; and by Joseph Addison one daughter, 
 Charlotte Addison. Lady Warwick was buried in the Parish 
 Church of Kensington. Charlotte, Countess of Warwick’s 
 will is dated 1731. 
 
 In blue and red dress, head turned to the right ^ 
 
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 In an oval —35 in. by 27 in. 
 
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 KNELLER. 
 
 17 Portrait of Mrs. Combes, sister of Joseph Addison; she 
 
 / { ' married, first, Dr. Satre, a refugee French minister who 
 
 became a Prebendary of Westminister; and secondly, L'aniel 
 Combes, Esq. Swift has described her as “ A kind of wit, 
 and very like her brother.” 
 
 In white dress, with straw-coloured robe 
 In an oval —29 in. by 24^ in. 
 
 SIR P. LELY. 
 
 18 Portraits of Lucy, Countess of Carlisle, in white dress lined 
 
 with pink satin, with pearl ornaments, necklace and earrings, 
 seated, turned to the left; and Dorothy, Countess of 
 Leicester, in red dress, with loose scarf, pearl necklace and 
 earrings, with sprays of orange blossom in her hand and in 
 her hair, seated, to the right. 
 
 These ladies were the daughters of Henry, 9th Karl of 
 Northumberland, K.G. The Countess of Carlisle was the 
 wife of James Hay, Earl of Carlisle; was Bedchamber 
 Woman to Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I., 
 and was a most mischievous politician, betraying the Queen’s 
 secrets to Cromwell’s party; she died 1660, and was buried 
 at Petworth near her father. The Countess of Leicester was 
 the wife of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester ; she had the 
 care of the Duke of Gloucester and the Princess Elizabeth 
 after the execution of their father, Charles I., in 1641 
 
 38^ in. by 61 in. 
 
 SIR P. LELY. 
 
 q 19 Portrait of a Lady, in brown dress, with red robe, seated, 
 
 playing a guitar 
 50 in. by 40 in. 
 
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 20 Portrait of a Younq Lady, in green dress, with red ribbon in 
 
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 21 Portrait of Gustavus Adolphus, tbo great King of Sweden ; 
 bo was born at Stockholm in 1590, and suceeded bis father, 
 
 King Charles, in 1611; be zealously espoused the causo of 
 the Protestants in Germany, who wero sadly oppressed and 
 persecuted by the Emperor Ferdinand of Austria; bo was 
 killed at the battle of Lutzin in 1632. * S 
 
 With pointed beard ; in armour, and lace collar^ 
 24 in. by 19 in. 
 
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 22 Sir William Crofts, created Baron Crofts, 1655; be married 
 an aunt of Admiral tbo Earl of Warwick; be held an 
 appointment in tbo household of Queen Henrietta Maria, and 
 died in 1662 without issue. 
 
 In wbito and yellow dress, white ruff, bolding bis glove in 
 bis left band, leaning on a stick which bo bolds in bis right; 
 breast-plate and armour on the ground ; standing in a 
 landscape 
 
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 80 in. by 50 in. 
 
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 23 Lady Arabella Stdabt, daughter of Charles, Duke of Lennox yjv } . .- 
 (Nieco of Lord Darnloy), and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir 
 William Cavendish ; she married clandestinely, in 1609, Sir 
 William Seymour, afterwards Duke of Somerset; she was 
 disguised in man’s apparel, escaped from custody at High- 
 gate, and took refuge in a French vessel. Her husband 
 reached Ostend in safety, but she was captured and sent to the 
 Tower, less afflicted at her own fate than overjoyed at her 
 husband’s security ; she died in the 4th year of her captivity, 
 worn out with grief, her reason having given way under tho 
 severity of her treatment. 
 
 In crimson dress, with ornaments and strings of pearls, lace 
 ruff and jewelled head-dress, standing by a tablo 
 Whole length — 76 in. by 50 in. 
 
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 24 PpuTBAin of Sib Thomas Middleton, Baronet, of Chirk 
 / y. a Castle; married Charlotte Bridgemnn, daughter of Sir 
 Orlande Bridgeman, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal to 
 King Charles II. from 1667 to 1672. Their only daughter 
 married first, Robert, 6tli Earl of Warwick and 3rd Earl of 
 Holland, and secondly, Joseph Addison. 
 
 In brown dross with white sleeves, large fiowing/vig, his 
 loft arm resting on a table ^ 
 
 48 in. by 48 in. 
 
 OLD STONE. 
 
 25 Lady Isabella Thynne, daughter of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of 
 Holland, and wife of Sir James Thynne, of Longleat, county 
 Wilts: 6ho died without issue. 
 
 In white satin dress, with blue scarf, pearl necklace an^ 
 
 ornaments, walking, in a landscape, carrying a guitar 
 Whole length—Hi in. by 50 in. 
 
 
 
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 p 26 Laey Isabella Thynne, in white dress, with guitar 
 
 45 in. by 35 in. 
 
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 27 Portrait of Sir John Vanbrugh, born in Cheshire, of a good 
 family ; he was an able dramatic writer and architect; in 
 1716 he was made Surveyor of Greenwich Hospital; many 
 noble structures were raised under his direction, amongst them 
 Blenheim, Claremont, Castle Howard, the old Military Academy 
 at Woolwich, the old Opera House in the Haymarket, and 
 Newbold Revel in Warwickshire ; he died in 1726. He is 
 noted for the heaviness of his buildings and the lightness of 
 his comedies. The proposed inscription for his gravestone is 
 well known— 
 
 “ Lie heavy on him, earth, for he 
 Laid many a heavy load on thee.” 
 
 In brown robe, holding a laurel wreath 
 
 49 in. by 39^ in. 
 
 
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 VAN DYCK. 
 
 28 PRINCE RUPERT, son of Frederick, the Elector Palatine and 
 *7 / / , King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of King 
 
 James I. of England ; was born at Prague in 1619 ; he was 
 LcC) \J ' ' a prince of great natural ability and cultivation, a distin- 
 
 |\/(. Wo guished warrior, and a man of science; he was the inventor 
 
 of mezzotint (his first engraving is dated 1658); a great 
 promoter of trade in Africa, and principal protector of the 
 Royal African Company ; the Hudson’s Bay Company was 
 created by him, and was the first appointed by Royal Charter ; 
 he died in his house in Spring Gardens, 1682, and is buried * > 
 
 in Henry VII.’s Chapel in Westminster Abbey. 
 
 In leather coat with red slashed sleeves, high boots, lace 
 collar, wearing a breast-plate, standing in a landscape, holding 
 a baton in his right hand ; his helmet and gauntlet lie on a 
 bank by his side 
 
 
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 YANDYCK. 
 
 29 PRINCE MAURICE, younger brother of Prince Rupert, and 
 like him a great warrior; he died at sea in 1651, being slop¬ 
 py 0 -— r 0 wrecked in a hurricane off the coast of Spain. The Princes 
 Rupert and Maurice came to England in 1642 on the appear¬ 
 ance of disturbances there. 
 
 In brown and yellow jacket, white slashed sleeves, crimson 
 breeches, white lace collar and gorget, a stick 
 hand; his helmet on a table by his side 
 Whole length —80 in. by 51 in. 
 
 in his j;ight 
 
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 OF HENRY RICH, EARL OF HOLLAND; 
 
 30 PORTRAIT 
 
 he was the second son of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick; 
 
 
 he married in 1622, Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir 
 Walter Cope of Kensington; in 1622 he was made Baron 
 Kensington and Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Henry, 
 
 Prince of Wales, son of James I.; about the year 1627 he was 
 created Earl of Holland, made Captain of the Guard, Knight 
 of the Garter, and a member of the Privy Council. He was 
 beheaded in 1628-9, and buried at Kensington. He became 
 possessor of Holland House, Kensington, in right of his wife, 
 and gave it that name, it having previously been called Copo 
 Castle. y/t'f ^ '' ^ 
 
 In leather jacket with white slashed sleeves, rhcl breeches, 
 lace collar, and blue ribbon across his breast-plate; in his left 
 hand he holds a black hat with feather, a baton in his right 
 hand 
 
 83 in. by 50 in. 
 
 
 /*/: ^31 Portrait op the Same, when Lord Kensington, in brown^dress, ^ . 
 
 with auburn hair, head to the right ^ ^ w- 
 
 Oval — 21 in. by 16] in. 
 
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 YANDYCK AND STONE. 
 
 32 KING CHARLES I. ON HORSEBACK, AND HIS 
 
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 EQUERRY. King Charles was the second son of King 
 
 James I., and Anne, daughter of Frederick, King of Denmark 
 he was born 27th February 1600 ; he succeeded his father on 
 the throne in 1625 ; he married Henrietta Maria, daughter of 
 Henri IV., King of France, and was beheaded by Oliver 
 Cromwoll in 1649 
 
 In armour, with Order of the Garter, mounted on a white 
 charger advancing through a gateway; his equerry, supposed 
 to be Monsieur St. Antoine, Knight of Malta, walking by his 
 side, in red dress, carrying his helmet 
 
 11 ft. 7 in. by 7 ft. 4 in. 
 
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 SCHOOL OF YANDYCK. 
 
 33 Portrait of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, son of 
 Robert, 1st Earl, by Mary, daughter and hoiress of George 
 Baldry, Esq., of tho City of London; married Penelope, 
 daughter of Walter, Earl of Essex, by whom ho had (with 
 other issue) Robert, his successor, who married, first, Frances, 
 daughtor and heiress of Sir William Hatton, Knight, by whom 
 ho had (with other issue) Robert, his successor, who married 
 Lady Anne, daughter of William, Duke of Devonshire, and 
 dying without male issue was succeeded by his brother Charlos, 
 who married Mary, daughter of Richard, Earl of Cork, and 
 dying without issue was succeeded by Henry, Earl of Holland 
 (2nd son of Robert, Earl of Warwick) who married Elizabeth, 
 daughter and heiross of Sir Waltor Cope, Knight of Kensing¬ 
 ton, and brought Kensington (now Holland) House into the 
 Rich family. 
 
 In white coat, rod breeches and cloak ; ships in the back¬ 
 ground 
 
 Whole length —81 in. by 49 in. 
 
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 SCHOOL OF VANDYOK. 
 
 34 Portrait of Lord Warwick, as a boy, in loose red dress with 
 green robe, long liair, holding a stick 
 
 30 in. by 25 in. 
 
 ANDES A DEL SARTO. 
 
 35 The Madonna, in red and blue dress, holding tho infant Saviour 
 on her lap; the infant St. John and an angel on oitlier side 
 
 On panel —35 in. by 27^ in. 
 
 This picture was formerly at Bilton Hall 
 
 FINIS, 
 
 London : Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, Stamford Slroct 
 
 and Charing Cross.