Hampton Court ... Illustrated with forty-three drawings by Herbert ...

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HAMPTON COURT
much of his impressive and solemn feeling about it.
Remigius van Leemput preserved for Charles II.
Holbein's " Henry VII. and Elizabeth of York, with
Henry VIII. and Jane Seymour," a fine little copy of
the Holbein fresco destroyed at Whitehall. Mabuse's
Adam and Eve, ugly and ungainly enough though
one sometimes thinks it, is famous as a characteristic
blending of the Flemish feeling and the ideal Italian
Renaissance. Solomon de Bray's Family Group (No.
66) is a notable specimen of a rare artist. The two
heads by Rembrandt (Nos. 381, 382) will not easily
be forgotten. Among the Dutch pictures, though it
is probably not from Charles I.'s collection, is a
striking Crucifixion triptych by Lucas van Leiden.
It is ill tohurry over a field so vast, but enough has
been said to show that the gallery, of which Charles's
collection is the nucleus, is worthy of a far more
minute inspection than it is the custom to give it.
It is still an honourable memorial of the connoisseurking
who gave it its greatest glories.
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The next broad division of the Hampton Court
pictures is formed by the Georgian age. Charles II.
had his collection, it is true. Indeed, the Dutch States
made him a fine present in the collection of Van
Regust, a collector who had bought much from the
gallery of Charles I. James II.added some Vandevelde