at Whitehall, which he valued at the enormous sum of £80,000. These claims were but partially satisfied when he went to France in 1641, hoping to obtain the commission to paint the galleries at the Louvre, which was given to Poussin through the influence of the Cardinal de Richelieu. Disappointed, and in broken health, he returned to England via Antwerp. On the 1st of December, the birthday of his daughter, Giustiniana, he made his will, and on the 9th he expired. He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. For noble use of colour, high-bred elegance of style, and facility, Van Dyck ranks as one of the first of painters. In portraiture he was not surpassed by any great master north or south of the Alps, though in historical and sacred subjects by many; for in such, as a rule, his conceptions are superficial and scenic, rather than profound and natural. Works: portrait of Charles I., do. of Rubens, do., of C. van der Geest, do. of himself, Ambrose and Emperor Theodosius (copy of Rubens), Miraculous Draught of Fishes, National Gallery, London; portrait of Charles I., Children of Charles I. (2), Charles I. and Family, Henrietta Maria, Sir Kenelm Digby, Lady Venetia Digby, Charles II., Countess of Carlisle, Duke of Buckingham, Thomas Carew and Sir William Killigrew, Duke of Gloucester, and others, Windsor Castle; Christ healing the Paralytic, Pietà, St. Sebastian, Charles I., Hampton Court; Earl of Pembroke, Madonna, Dulwich Gallery; St. Sebastian, Lomellini Family, Nobleman in Armour, Study, National Gallery, Edinburgh; Pembroke Family, Wilton House; Rinaldo and Armida, Duke of Newcastle; Dædalus and Icarus, portrait of Duke of Newcastle, do. of Lady Venetia Digby, do. of Earl of Bristol, do. of Countess of Bedford, Earl Spencer; Bolingbroke Family, Earl of Morley; Charity, Earl of Lonsdale; Madonna with St. Catherine, Grosvenor House, London; Sir Kenelm Digby, Wingfield Digby, Esq., Sherborne; Madonna, Madonna and Donors, Venus and Vulcan, Rinaldo and Armida, portrait of Charles I., Children of Charles I., Francisco de Monçada, Charles Louis of Bavaria, Isabel of Austria, Duke of Richmond, himself, and others, Louvre; St. Jerome, Christ crowned with Thorns, Virgin of Sorrows, Betrayal of Christ, Diana and Endymion, portraits of David Ryckaert, Don Fernando of Austria, Countess of Oxford, Prince of Orange, Princess of Orange, Charles I., and others, Madrid Museum; Christ on the Cross (2), Entombment, Antwerp Museum; Crucifixion, St. Jacques, Antwerp; St. Augustine in Ecstasy, St. Augustine, ib.; Crucifixion, Cathedral at Mechlin; Crucifixion of St. Peter, Satyr, portrait, Brussels Museum; Children of Charles I., portrait, Amsterdam Museum; portraits, Hague Museum; Christ crowned with Thorns, Pietà, Descent of Holy Ghost, Repentant Sinners, Two Saints, John, St. Peter, portrait of Prince Thomas of Carignan, Berlin Museum; Madonna, portrait, Brunswick Gallery; Family Group, six portraits, Cassel Gallery; St. Jerome, Danaë, Silenus, portraits of Charles I., Henrietta Maria, Children of Charles I., Martin Ryckaert, Thomas Parr, and others, Dresden Gallery; Holy Family, Madonna with St. John, St. Sebastian, Pietà (2), Christ on the Cross, portraits of Maria de' Medici, Alessandro Scaglio, Count John of Nassau, Gustavus Adolphus, Wallenstein, and others, Munich Gallery; Christ on the Cross, Madonna with Saints, Venus and Vulcan, Samson and Delilah, Holy Family, Virgin and Donor, Magdalen, and many portraits, Vienna Museum; Pietà, portraits of Wallenstein, Duke Albrecht of Austria, and others, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Holy Family, Incredulity of Thomas, St. Sebastian, portraits of Charles I., Henrietta Maria, William of Orange, Archbishop Laud, Earl Danby, Inigo Jones, and others, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Cardinal Bentivoglio, Charles I. and Henrietta Maria, Repose in Egypt, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; portrait of Charles V., do. of John Montfort, Uffizi, ib.; Brignoli Family, Palazzo Brignoli, Genoa; Madonna and St. Anthony of Padua, portraits, Brera, Mi-
