Note 753 — Chapter XXVIII · THE BARBER-SURGEONS PICTURE AND THE PAINTER’S DEATH

“Foreign Artists in England,” &c., Transactions Royal Inst. Brit. Architects, 1868, pp. 218 and 235. It may be suggested that this painter was the “Master Nycolas” or “Nicholas Florentine” who worked with Holbein on the decorations of the Greenwich Banqueting Hall in 1527; while a possible, though not very probable, connection between Nicholas Lyzarde and Nicholas Lasora, who was engaged upon similar work at Westminster Palace in 1532, has been already pointed out. Lasora, however, in spite of his Italian-sounding name, appears to have been a Teuton, for he may be identified with some probability as the “Nic. Leysure, a German,” mentioned more than once in the royal accounts. See vol. i. p. 314 and note.