Religions lere, in wisedemes worth, The truest Beauty best fetts forth: All these in One, this Shadowe showes (NBr. Rubby W. Richardson, Castle Street Leicester Square. The Countess of HERTFORD. F. Delaram sc. 4to. six English verses. "Vertue, combin'd with beauties comlie feature, Is of so rare and admirable worthe; That, though it be but in a mortal creature, It setts the glorie of the maker forthe. Thie shadow, then, this artist here hath shewne ; Thie substance to the world can ne're be known." This is, probably, the countess who was afterward married to the Duke of Lenox; sed quære? It may be seen by comparing the prints. There is an account of her at the beginning of this Class. Or it may be the portrait of the Lady Catharine Grey, mother of William, marquis of Hertford." LUCIA HARIN (HARRINGTON), Com. Bedfordiæ. S. Passæus sc. LUCIA HARIN, com. Bedfordiæ. Richardson. LUCY HARRINGTON, Countess of Bedford. S. Freeman sc. 1818; from the original of Gerard Honthorst, in the collection of his Grace the Duke of Bedford. Her portrait, by Gerard Honthorst, is at Woburn. Lucy, sister and coheir of John, the second lord Harrington, and wife of Edward, earl of Bedford; a woman of uncommon taste and spirit; but vain, generous, and bountiful to excess. She was a great patroness of poets, particularly of Donne, Jonson, Drayton, and Daniel, who frequently experienced her munificence. Drayton in particular says, that "she rained upon him her sweet showers of gold;"+ for which they, in return, were as lavish of their incense.‡ She, upon a moderate calculation, paid them as much for their pa * There is a portrait of this lady at Warwick Castle; with the marquis, when a child, in her arms. "It is certainly Frances, afterward dutchess of Lenox."BINDLEY. + In a sonnet inscribed to Lucy, countess of Bedford. See their poems and dedications. Ben Jonson's seventy-sixth epigram is in praise of her; and his eighty-fourth and ninety-fourth, are addressed to her. It is probable, that Owen also found his account in remembering her. negyric as Octavia did Virgil for his encomium on Marcellus. She spent a great part of the earl her husband's fortune, and her own along with it. Sir Thomas Roe has addressed a letter to her, as one skilled in ancient medals; and she is celebrated by Sir William Temple, for projecting, "the most perfect figure of a garden that he ever saw. She died without issue the 3d of May, 1627. FRANCES, countess of Somerset. S. Pa. (Passæus sc. 4to. Hair very round, and curled like a wig. A copy of the same.-See R. CAR, earl of Somerset, Class II. Her portrait is at Bulstrode; and another in the Gallery at Windsor. FRANCES HOWARD, Countess of Somerset; in a hat and feather; 4to. FRANCES HOWARD, &c. in the print with her husband. FRANCES HOWARD, &c. in an oval. W. Richardson. FRANCES HOWARD, &c. in a circle. J. Oliver pinx. S. Harding, 1802. FRANCES HOWARD, &c. Thane. There is a curious satirical print, with the Countess standing, holding a feather fan; with a Dr. Panurgus, probably Dr. Forman, M. D. (roeshout); rare. FRANCES HOWARD, &c. in a square 4to. James Stow sc. From the original at Woburn. Frances, eldest daughter of Thomas Howard, earl of Suffolk, and wife of Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, was one of the completest beauties of her time. Wilson, who detested her character, could not help doing justice to her person; by owning that "she *See his "Essay on the Gardens of Epicurus." This garden was at Moore Park, in Hertfordshire, near Rickmansworth. |