Note 4 — D.
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This picture is supposed to have formerly belonged to the Arundel collection, and from thence came to Henry Duke of Norfolk, from whose steward Mr. Fox, it was bought by Mr. Sykes, who afterwards sold it to the Duke of Devonshire, 1722.
The tradition concerning it was, that King Henry V. received it as a present, about a year before his death, from the famous John Duke of Bedford then Regent of England, and afterwards Regent of France in the reign of Henry VI. The Duke of Bedford bespoke it of John Van Eyck the painter, who invented the art of painting in oil. Thomas a Becket, whose consecration this painting is supposed to represent, was the favourite saint of King Henry V.
The length of this picture is forty-five inches, its breadth twenty-nine, and the height of the principal figure twenty-one and a half.