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Ignatius Loyola; better known as a religious than as a miltary character, though the former maybe truly said to have risen out of the latter. Being educated in the court of Ferdinand King of Spain, to whom he was appointed page, he distinguished himself at the siege of Cataloma, where he received a severe wound in the thigh; and whilst recover- ing from the same, his leisure hours being employed in reading the lives of the saints, he acquired such a taste for theological writings, that he became foun- der of that famous religious order denominated the " Society of Jesus," and was first president of the Institution. Obiit 1556. This is a superlatively fine whole-length, by that great master Rubens; the robes are extremely rich, the eye is cast up to a burst of light, and the expression of countenance is grand; nothing can exceed the skll with which the elevated r*ght hand is fore-shortened.

Lord Lindsay, Charles I. and Henrietta Maria ; three half-lengths; and a Portrait of a Man, very likeCharles V. ; by Vandyck. AfineEtruscan Vase.

In the state bed-chamber,

Another v, fe of Rubens, extremely handsome; small half-length, by himself.

Robert Devereux Earl of Essex ; an undoubted org m.j by Zucchero. Experienced in all the vicis- situdes of a favourite's fortune, he may be said to

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