Vandyck In England.

VANDYCK IN ENGLAND .

( Concluded from page 242 . ) I haA' -e already catalogued the Welbeck double portrait of Sir Kenelm and Lady Venetia , and have now to name the fine half-length of him at Windsor , Avhere he is drawn seated , with a celestial sphere on his right , in allusion to his

astrological studies . Duplicates at Knowle and in the Oxford Picture Gallery . In his Avill , Sir Kenelm desires to be buried with his Avife , and withoutan epitaph . Another double picture represents Sir Kenelm and Lady Venetia , his wife ( died 1635 ) , and their

two children , Kenelm and John . Of this , one copy may be seen at Sherborne ( Lord Dig-by ' s ) , in Dorsetshire ; and another ( the Harleian picture ] at the Duke of Portland ' s , at Welheck " At Goathurst , in Bucks , " says Aubrey , " is a rare original picture of Sir Kenelm Digby and his Lady Venetia , in one piece , by the hand of Sir Anthony Vandyck . " * Where is this picture concealed ?

I shall group together the names of four male sisters , all four gentlemen of the chamber to King Charles I . : — 1 . Endymion Porter , a name already mentioned , and Avell knoAvn to every student of the reign of Charles I . A portrait of Porter , by Vandyck , was exhibited by Lord Hardwicke at the British Institution in 1829 .

2 . John Ashburnham ( died 1671 ) , the person so deeply implicated in the blundering escape of Charles I . from Hampton Court . I have not seen this picture ; it is , I am told , at Lord Ashburnham ' s , in Sussex ; another , at Hinfcon St . George , in Somersetshire . Ashburnham's second wife ( a

Kerr by birth ) , Avas the widow of Lord Poulet , of Hinton St . George . 3 . Henry Jermyn ( afterwardsEarl of St . Alban ) . Full-length of at Rushbrooke , in Suffolk , the ancient seat of the -Jermyn family . He is standingdressed in black slashed with Avhitehis right

, , hand gloved , his left concealed behind his dress . This is a fine , neglected , and little-knoAvn picture . 4 . Thomas KilligreAV . " Mr . Thomas KilligreAv , with a Mastiff Dog , " by Vandyck , Avas sold at Sir Peter Lely's sale , to Lord NeAvport , for £ 83 . It is now Lord Bradford ' s .

At Audley End , in Essex ( Lord Braybrooke ' s ) , is a portrait of Sir Dudley Carleton Viscount Dorchester ( died 1628 ) , long the English ambassador at Venice and the Hague , and whose name I haye already had occasion to introduce to the reader . I saw this picture many years ago at

Audley End , and my impression was then against its Vandyck parentage . Evelyn speaks most encomiastically of a Vandyck portrait of Sir Thomas H & niner ( tiie second baronet , died 1678 ); he calls it " one of the best

he ever painted . It was then m the possession of Lord Newport . This I have never seen . A very fine knee-piece of Sir William Killigrew ( died 1693 ) Avas bought of Mr . Farrer by the present Duke of Newcastle , and is now at Clumber ,, inscribed " A Vandyck , pinxit 1638 . " Sir William

was a gentleman usher of the Privy Chamber of Charles I . and Vice-Chamberlain to the Queen of Charles II . Throughout the Avhole of the civil war he had command of the troops Avhich guarded the king ' s person . Sir Robert Walpolelike Lord Clarendon before

, him , collected Vandycks . The Houghton portrait ( three-quarters ) of Sir Thomas Chaloner , the regicide , went to St . Petersburg . Walpole says ( Works , ii . 243 ) that the Sir Thomas Chaloner of Vandyck . was governor to

Henry Prince of Wales . This is an error . The picture represents his son , governor to the prince , who died in 1615 , and is buried at Chiswick , in Middlesex . This picture , in the Houghton valuation , Avas appraised at £ 200 . Chaloner died abroad before the Restoration .

The Houghton full-length of Sir Thomas Wharton , brother of Philip fourth Lord Wharton , bought by Sir Robert Walpole of the Wharton family , hangs in the dining-room at Chatsworth . The portrait—seated—of Sir Christopher Wandesford , Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1640 , was a .

Wharton and Houghton picture , and is now at-St . Petersburg . Another Wharton and Houghton picture is at ChatsAvorth , a full-length of Arthur GoodAvin , the friend and colleague of Hampden , and father of Janesecond AA'ife of PhiliLord Wharton ..

, p Walpole calls it " one of the best" of the Wharton purchases made by his father . Sir Robert gave this fine portrait to ChatsAvorth . The noble head of Inigo Jones ( of which Lord Hatherton has a copy by Hogarth ) Avent with the

Houghton collection to St . Petersburgh . Could not some change be effected ? The head of Inigo , by Vandyck , should be in England . Let my Lord Stanhope try to obtain this treasure for his National Portrait Gallery . Lord De Tabley has a knee-piece ( a so-called )

of Sir John Byron , K . B ., first Baron Byron ( died 1652 ) . He is draAvn as a Constable of Chester , Avith a black page holding his horse . This picture must be put in an Apocrypha of Vandyck ' a works . That sprihtlpoetSir John Suckling , stood

gy , to Vandyck ( so some assert ) , and , doubtless chose his own posture . He is at full length , holding a copy of the folio edition of Shakspeare . A rock , on Avhich his left arm leans , is inscribed " Ne te quse sciveris extra . " Sir John , who died in 1641 , was a professed admirer of Shakspeare .

"My Lacly Southcot , " says Aubrey , " whose husband hanged himself . Avas Sir John Suckling ' s sister ... At her house in Bishop ' s