Vandyck In England.

delicate , and also the right hand , but the accessories are scenically treated . " Waagen adds , " to all appearance painted about 1638 . " HOAV infallible we are . Why , Weston was dead in 1634 . "If to my mind , great Lord , I had a state , I would present you now with curious plate

Of JNuremberg or Turkey ; hang your rooms Not with the Arras but the Persian looms ; I would , if price or prayer could them get , Send in what or Eomauo , Tintoret , Titian or Raphael , Michael Angelo , - *¦ Have left in fame to equal , or out-go The old Greek hands in picture , or in stone . . This I would do could I think Weston one Oatehed with these arts . "—Ben Jonson .

TMs great lord has a monument to Ms memory in Winchester Cathedral . William Cavendish , Earl , Marquis , and Duke of Newcastle , and the liberal patron of two gene > rations of poets , stood to Vandyck for the fine full length still at Welbeck . * There are

repetitions at Althorp , the Grove , and Burleigh . The Earl , for that Avas his hi ghest rank in Vandyck's lifetime , was careful of his Vandycks , as his wife assures us in that deli ghtful reading , the life of her husband .

"My lord , " writes Margaret Lucas ( Duchess and authoress ) , " sent to his other son , Henry , now Earl of Ogle , to endeavour for so much credit , that the hangings and pictures ( which my lord esteemed very much , the pictures being drawn by Van Dyke ) might be saved , which he also did . "f

Of the earl ' s brother , Sir Charles Cavendish , there is a full length at Welbeck . Two great noblemen who are said to have sat to Sir Anthony were both dead before his arrival in England . We may , therefore , safely attribute the picture at Blenheimof Villiersfirst Duke of

, , Buckingham , and the picture at Wilton , of William . Herbert , Earl of Pembroke , to a different hand , or perhaps of tAvo different hands . At Chatsworth , in the dining-room , is a full length , Avhen young , of William Cavendish , tMrd

Earl of Devonshire ( and father of the first , the Revolution Duke ) , in a black silk dress , ivith a broad falling' collar . Iu his left hand , which rests on . his Mp , he holds his hat ; ancl in his right , which hangs down , his handkerchief . TMs picture is very fine , and stands its ground well Avith the

other Vandycks in the room . At Grimsthorpe Castle , in LincolnsMre ( Lord Willoughby d'Eresby ' s ) , are full lengths of Robert Bertie , Earl of Lindsey , who fell ( 1642 ) at Edge Hill , and of Montagu , Earl of Lindsey , his son . It is impossible for the student of English Mstory

, and of Edge Hill Eight in particular , to look on these fine pictures Avithout emotion . At Hamilton Palace , in Scotland , may be seen one of the best Vandycks north of the Tweed , — William Peilding , first Lord of Denbigh . He is

draAvn in an Eastern hunting costume , with a gun in his right hand ; next him a boy in a Persian dress , aiming at a parrot on a tree , — -the background landscape carefully executed in a warm tone . Denbigh served as a volunteer on the side of the king , at the battle of Edge Hill , —his son . and successor fighting on the other side . Lord Denbigh ' s sister Mary was the wife of the first Duke of Hamilton .

TAVO fine whole-lengths exist of William Villiers Viscount Grandison , —one at Euston ( the Duke of Grafton ' s ) , the other at The Grove ( Lord Clarendon ' s ) . If there is any choice between the two , it must be a matter of association ; and , in that Avay , I prefer the duke's . The duke is descended

in a direct line from the daughter of Lord Grandison , the famous Barbara Villiers , Countess of Castlemaine ancl Duchess of Cleveland- —the lady who sat for the first figure of Britannia ever placed on an English coin . Lord Grandison married Mary , third daughter of Paul Viscount Bayning ,

and dying at Oxford in 1643 of the wounds he received at the siege of Bristol , was buried in Christ Church , Oxford , where his too celebrated daughter erected a monument to his memory . At Hagley ( Lord Lyttelton ' s ) is a fine wholelengthin blackof James Hay Earl of Carlisle

, , ( died 1636 ) , the most expensive Scot who came into England with King James I ., and the one ( says Clarendon ) who was liked the most and held iu the most esteem by Englishmen . His second wife was Lucy Percy , daughter of the Earl of Northumberland .

At Buchanan . House , in Scotland , is the head , supposed to be by Vandyck , of the great Marquis of Montrose , hanged ancl beheaded at Edinburgh in 1650 . TMs portrait I have not seen , and I am . assured by competent judges that it is not by Vandyck .

The Duke of Buccleuch possesses the full length in buff , red , ancl breast-plate of a true cavalier , George Gordon , second Marquis of Huntly . An-, other , equally thought an original , is at Drummond Castle . The marquis , ivho succeeded his father in 1636 , was beheaded by the Covenanters at the

Market Cross of Edinburgh in 1649 . The same rich nobleman , Avho has more addresses in Blue Books and Court Guides than any other nobleman or gentleman in the three kingdoms , has a full-length in buff , red , and breastplate of Henry Rich , first Earl of Holland , beheaded

1649 . Duplicate at The Grove . "This Lord Holland was a man , " says Clarendon , " of a pleasant and companionable wit and conversation ; of a universal jollity , and such a licence in his ivords and in his actions , that a man of less virtue could ; not be found out . " He was very handsome , and much—too much , it was whispered—in the favour of Queen Henrietta Maria .

At Taymouth , in Scotland ( the Marquis of Breadalbane ' s ) , is a much admired whole length of Lord Holland ' s elder brother , Robert Rich , second