Introductory material

HENRY PURCELL

(From the portrait by Kneller, in the possession of Henry Littleton, Esq.)

PURCELL

(From a portrait by Clostermann, in the National Portrait Gallery.)

PURCELL SEATED AT THE HARPSICHORD

(From a portrait by Clostermann, in the National Portrait Gallery.)

PURCELL

(From an engraving after a portrait by Clostermann in the possession of the Royal Society of Musicians.)

PART OF THE AUTOGRAPH SCORE

OF PURCELL'S ANTHEM "BEHOLD, NOW PRAISE THE LORD"

(In the British Museum.)