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This Dutch painter is chiefly known in England, for his successful imitations of Vandyck. He spent some time there, but left in 1649, saying, “He would never stay in a country where they cut off their king’s head, and were not ashamed of the action.” Walpole remarks that it would have been more sensible to say, he would not stay where they cut off the head of a king who rewarded painters, and then defaced and sold his collection.
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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
1. Charles I. of England, in 1530, purchased the Mantuan collection for £20,000=> Charles I. of England, in 1630, purchased the Mantuan collection for £20,000 {pg 263} 2.Fragment d’un Traité sur les Moveuments du corp humain=> Fragment d’un Traité sur les Mouvements du corps humain {pg 275}