GEORGE JAMESONE, holding a miniature. T. Trotter sc. 1795.

George Jamesone, who was born at Aberdeen in 1586, is by Mr. Walpole, styled "The Vandyck of Scotland." He was a fellowdisciple with that great master, in the school of Rubens at Antwerp. There are many of his works in his own country. The most considerable collection of them is at Taymouth, the seat of the Earl of Breadalbane. He painted a portrait of Charles I. from the life; and another of Arthur Johnson, his physician. The latter is in the Newton, College of Aberdeen.* Some of his pictures were so masterly, that they have passed for Vandyck's. Michael Wright, who did the portraits of many of the judges in Guildhall, was his disciple. He died at Edinburgh, 1644.

FRANCOIS QUESNEL, &c. agé de 73 Ans, 1616. Peint par luy-meme; gravé par Michel L'Asne. Under the oval are a pallet and books; h.sh.

Francois Quesnel, who descended from an ancient and eminent family in Scotland,† was born in the royal palace at Edinburgh, where his father had an employment under James V. and afterward under Mary of Lorraine, the queen regent. He succeeded Janet, as principal painter to Henry III. who, with his whole court, esteemed him as an excellent artist and a worthy man. He knew how to employ his pen to advantage, as well as his pencil, of which his "History of Paris," is a sufficient proof. He also published the first plan of that city in twelve sheets. He was a man of great virtue, and no less modesty; having earnestly declined the overtures of the chancellor de Chiverny for his advancement, and refused the order of St. Michael offered him by Henry IV. His portraits have been confounded with Janet's, as Janet's have with those of Hans Holbein. Ob. 1619.

The substance of this article is in French, under the head. It was originally written by abbé de Marolles.

NEW-TOWN, i. e. the borough of Aberdeen; it is properly called the Marischal College, from its founder.-LoRD HAILES.

His father, a Frenchman, settled in Scotland.-LORD ORFORD.

There is a quarto print of the following artist, mentioned by Baglione, p. 186.

"CRISTOPHANO RONCALLI, Pittore, andò per la Germania, per la Fiandra,per l'Olanda, per l'Inghilterra, per la Francia; e finalmente, carico d'honori, e di 74 anni, finì il corso, 1626." Mr. Walpole knows nothing of him.-He died at Rome.

A STATUARY.

NICHOLAS STONE, senior. T. Chambars sc. In the same plate with his son, of whom there is an account in the next reign. The print is in the "Anecdotes of Painting."

Nicholas Stone was the most noted statuary in the reign of James. He did a great number of monuments, of which the most considerable was in memory of the father, mother, brother, and sister, of Lucy, countess of Bedford, for which she paid him 10207. He was employed as master mason in building the Banqueting-house at Whitehall. He built the gates of the Physic-garden, at Oxford, after a design of Inigo Jones. The great gate, and front of St. Mary's Church in that university, were also built by him. Ob. 24 Aug. 1647, Et. 61.

HENRICUS

ENGRAVERS.

HONDIUS.

H. Hondius delin.

Fra. Bouttats f. Jean Meyssens excud. 4to.

Henry Hondius, in his time esteemed a good engraver and designer, was, according to Mr. Walpole, "son of Iodocus Hondius;" but this circumstance is not mentioned in the short account of him under his head. He is there said to have been born at Duffel, in Brabant, and to have learned his art from John Wierx. He was a considerable proficient in geometry, perspective, and fortification, as well as engraving. He is said to have died at the Hague. See

some account of his works in the " Catalogue of Engravers," p. 36, of the second edition.

JODOCUS HONDIUS. J. Hondius; prefixed to Mercator's" Atlas," 1636; fol.

Jodocus Hondius, son of Oliver de Hont, an ingenious artist of Ghent, where, probably, Jodocus was born in 1563, and where he studied mathematics, and the Latin and Greek tongue. When about twenty years old he came to England, and was employed in making mathematical instruments and types for printing, and in engraving charts and maps. His celestial and terrestrial globes were the largest then made, and were much commended. He engraved portraits of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Francis Drake, &c. He married in London in 1586, and removed to Amsterdam, where he died in 1611, leaving one son named Henry. See Walpole's " Engravers."

HOEFNAGLE. A. Bannerman sc. 4to. Copied from a set of heads of painters, and other artists, published by Janssonius, 1618, and engraved by H. Hondius, &c. Several of the heads before described, are copied from this collection.

HOEFNAGLE; in Sandrart.

George Hoefnagle, a native of Antwerp, engraved a great number of maps for Ortelius's "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum." He also engraved a map of Bristol, and a view of Nonesuch, a famous palace built by Henry VIII. the latter is in Braun's or Bruyn's "Civitates Orbis Terrarum," one of the first sets of perspective views ever published.*

*

Prints of this kind, which are of great use in studying the history and topography of our own country, are now become very numerous. I shall mention some of them, and shall also mention a few others that may be useful to the same purpose; and shall subjoin a method of disposing them, which I drew up for the arrangement of the late Dr. Rawlinson's prints, left to the Bodleian Library. Speed and Moll have published sets of maps of the counties; and Roque, several maps and plans. The two Bucks have engraved our principal cities and towns, and many ruins of abbeys. Williams has done a set of views of Oxford, and Loggan views of

Mr. Grose's Topographical Work, with elegant Views of Remains of Abbeys, &c. drawn by himself, has great merit.

WRITING MASTERS.

JOHN DAVIES, of Hereford; frontisp. to one of his Copy Books; 4to.

JOHN DAVIES; 4to. in an oval. W. Richardson.

John Davies, writing-master to Prince Henry, was, during his lifetime, at the head of his profession. He was a correct writer of the Roman, secretary, court, text, and mixed hands; and was much admired for his prodigious quickness in writing the running hand. He also wrote in so small a character, that it required a

both universities. Hollar, King, Cole, Du Bosc, Vertue, and Harris, have engraved many churches, abbeys, monuments, and cenotaphs. Campbell has published views of our most considerable buildings, in the "Vitruvius Britannicus," in three volumes; to which a fourth is now added. Kip has engraved two volumes of gentlemen's seats; not to mention many others in the histories of particular counties. Rooker has engraved views of Holkham, and Fourdrinier of Houghton Hall.* Several of the like kind have been published by Smith, who drew the views of the Peak; and some good views have been done by Woollett. Sir Philip Sidney's funeral procession was engraved by de Bry; and Ogilby published the procession at the coronation of Charles the Second. Many prints of this kind are in Sandford's books. The prints of antiquities, engraved at the expense of the Society of Antiquaries, are numerous; as are also those of natural history. The method is as follows. Class I. General maps of England, which are to be followed by maps of particular counties. Class II. Under each county, extensive rural prospects, plans, and views, of cities and towns. Class III. Public buildings, viz. churches, with their respective monuments and cenotaphs, burses, town-halls, market-crosses, &c. Class IV. Ruins of abbeys, gentlemen's seats, and prospects belonging to them. Class V. Antiquities; such as altars, inscriptions, tesselated pavements, &c. Class VI. The natural productions of each county. To these may be added, an appendix of coronations, cavalcades, processions, fireworks, &c. Adams's "Index Villaris" will be of great use in the arrangement. I have been very particular in this note; as the author of the life of Hollar, in the "Biographia," appears to be desirous that somebody would lay open the "long concealed channel of knowledge" that is to be derived from prints. See more on this subject, in the reign of Charles the Second, Article EVELYN.

* Fourdrinier and Rooker excel in engraving architecture.

+ See a detail of many prints of this kind in the "Anecdotes of British Topography," lately published.

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magnifying-glass to read it. Ob. circ. 1618. He was, after his death, exceeded in all the branches of his art by Gething, his scholar. The art of writing was little cultivated in England, before the reign of Elizabeth, who wrote a good hand; so did her tutor, Roger Ascham. Her father, Henry VIII. wrote a wretched scrawl, not unlike that which is called "the devil's hand-writing" in Ashmole's Museum. There is a good specimen of it in the first volume of Stevens's Supplement to Dugdale's Monasticon. Dr. Burnet, in his letter from Rome, says, that he knew it, when he saw his love-letters to Anne Bolen in the Vatican Library. It is indeed so very singular, that he could not well mistake it, if he had ever seen it before. Lord Burleigh was one of the few that wrote a good hand in the reign of Elizabeth.*

MARTIN BILLINGSLEY. W. Hole sc. Before his Copy Book, 1618.

MARTIN BILLINGSLEY, Et.27, 1623. J. Goddard sc. 4to. This is a copy of that by Hole.

Billingsley was a good writing-master, but in some respects inferior to Davies and Gething. His "Copy Book," and his "Pen's Perfection," were reprinted in the reign of Charles II.; a proof of their merit. See Clavel's Catalogue, folio, p. 101.

MUSICIANS.

JOHN BULL; a circle. J. Caldwall; in Hawkins's "Hist. of Musick.”

⚫. The curious reader may see what hands were written by the great, in the reign of Henry VIII. in Dr. Jortin's two volumes of the "Life of Erasmus ;" and also what were written in a subsequent period, in Dr. Forbes's two folios, entitled, “A full View of the Public Transactions in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth." If the reader's curiosity carry him into remote ages, he may see 150 specimens on copperplates, of the manner of writing from the third to the fifteenth century, subjoined to Mr. Casley's" Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library," &c. In the preface are some curious and useful observations.

In Madox's "Formulare Anglicanum, or Collection of ancient Charters," fol. 1702, are specimens of the engrossing hands from William I. to Edward IV.; as also the great seals.