Vandyck In England.

are in Sir Anthony ' s best manner , of great elegance , and carefully executed in a clear tone . Of this handsome woman read the pleasant prattling account which her mother—a Manners-Rutlandg ives of her AA heu a child : — " Sho is -very wellI thank God- and when she is set

, , to her feet , and held by her sleeves , she will go sortly , but stamp and set one foot afore another very fast , but I think she will ran before she can go . She loves dancing extremely ; and when the saraband is played she will get her thumb and finger together , offering to snap ; and then , when 'Tom Duff' is sung , then sho will shake her apron ; aud when she hears the tune of the clapping

dance my Lady Francos Herbert taught the -Prince , she will clap both her hands together and on her breast ; and she can tell the tunes as well as any of us can , and as they change the tunes she will change her dancing . I would you were here but to see her , for you would take much delight in her . How she is so full of pretty play and tricksand she has gotten a trick thatwhen they

; , dance her , she will cry 'Hah . ' hah . '' and Nicholas will dance with his legs , and she will imitate him as well as she can . She will be excellent at a heat , for if one lay her down she will kick her legs over her head ; but when she is older I hope she will be more modest . Everybody says she grows every day more like you . " *

This pleasant g irl lived to vred a third husband , the Hon . Thomas HoAvard ( died 1678 ) , brother of the first Earl of Cai * lisle , of the HoAvard family . Vandyck ' s Duchess , as St . Agnes , survived three husbands and an only son , and died in 168-5 . Horace Walpole had at StraAA'berry Hill a full

length of Frances Brydges , second Avife of Thomas Cecil , first Earl of Exeter . Our great letter-Avriter bought it at Richardson the painter ' s sale . This lady was a daughter of Brydges , Baron Chandos of Sudelcy , and was first mai * ried to Sir Thomas Smith , Master of the Requests , and Latin

Secretary to James I . At the StraAvberry Hill sale , in 1842 , this full-length brought a sum that marked ifc for an indifferent example of Vandyck . In the British Museum is a clever and animated

sketch of this lady m black chalk on green paper , seated . The countess died in 1663 , aged 83 , and is buried Avith the Exeter Cecils in Westminster Abbey . Earl de Grey and Ripon has in London ( as Lord Hardwicke has at Wimpole ) a very fine

fulllength of Rachel de Rouvigny , Countess of Southampton , Avife of the Lord Treasurer Southampton , the son of Shakspeare ' s patron . Walpole and Granger call Lord Hardwicke's the ori g inal . The "picture has been well engraved in mezzotinto by TVPArdell .

At Apethorpe ( Lord Westmoreland s , in Northamptonshire ) is a full-length in AA'hite of Rachel Fane , Countess of Bath , daughter of Francis , first Earl of Westmoreland . She Avas twice married , —first to Henry Bourchier , Earl of Bath , and secondly to Lionel Cranfield , Earl of Middlesex .

Waagen calls it " an elegant p icture in his latest silvery tones . " Mr . Fane De Salis , of DaAvley Court , near "Oxbridge , has a duplicate of the same

lady , painted in 1636 ; and a full-length in black ( still finer ) of her first husband , the Earl of Bath . At Lord Radnor ' s ( Longford Castle , in Wiltshire ) is a fine full-length in white satin of Catherine Wotton , Lady Stanhope and Countess of Chesterfield , mother of the handsome Earl of

Chesterfield of De Grammont ' s Memoirs . Another at Blenheim . There was one in Avhite among * the Wharton-Walpole pictures .

" Such killing looks , so thick the arrows fly , That 'tis unsafe to be a stander by . " Waller ( " The Triple Gombai" ) This lady Avas a wit ; had three husbands , and was Countess of Chesterfieldin her OAAII rig ht . Vandyck looked at her Avith more than p ictorial eyes . Read

what follows : — " It was thought that the Lord Opttington should have married my Lady Stanhope . I believe there were intentions in him , but the lady is , they say , in love with Oarey Ealeigh . You were so often with Sir Anthony Vandyck , that you could not but know his gallantries for the love of that lady but he is [ has ] come off with a corjlioneria

; , for ho disputed with her about the price of her picture , and sent her word that if she would not give the price he demanded he could sell it to another that would give more . "

This was CareAV Raleig h , Sir Walter ' s son , born during his father ' s imprisonment in the ToAver . The king appears to have obtained it for a time ; for in his last letter from Hampton Court he thus writes : — " There are three p ictures here Avhich are not mine , that I desire you to restore * to Avit ,

my wife ' s p icture in blue , sitting in a chair , you must send to Mistress Eirke ; my eldest daughter ' s p icture , copied b y Belcamp , to the Countess of Anglesey ; and my Lady Stanhope ' s picture to Gary Rawley . " Anne Villiers , Countess of Morton ( d . 1654 ) ,

daughter of Sir EdAvard Villiers ( half-brother of Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham ) and Avife of Robert Douglas , eig hth earl of Morton ( d . 1649 ) , may be seen , not to Vandyck ' s advantage , at Althorp and PetAvorfch . Waller ' s New Year ' s Day verses to her at Paris are as fresh as ever .

Lord Grandison , of whom Ave have a fine fulllength by Vandyck , was her brother . The farfamed Duchess of Ckweland was her niece . The Longford collection includes a full-length in yelloAV satin , AA ith roses in one hand , of the Countess of Monmouth , Avife of Robert Gary ,

Baron Carey of Leppington and Earl of Monmouth , —the Carey Avho carried so quickly to Scotland the neAvs that Queen Elizabeth Avas dead , and King James VI . of Scotland had become Kino- James I . of Enaland .

The Countess of Worcester , m blue , Avas among the Wharton and Walpole p ictures . This Avas Anne , only child of John Lord Russell , AA'ho died in tho lifetime of his father Francis , Earl of Bedford . At KnoAvle , in Kent , is a full-length , in Avhite satin , of Mary Curzon ( died 1645 ) Avife of Edward Saclmlle , fourth Earl of Dorset , Avhose portrait