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 508 Painting Miraculous Draught of Fishes. At Windsor, among many other of his works, there is the portrait of a Mrs. Mar- garet Lemon, which is beautiful, both from nature and art, and Charles I on horseback, of which a replica is at Hamp- ton Court. It would be useless to attempt to mention the works by Van Dyck in private collections in England. They abound in all the great houses of the nobility. In the National Portrait Exhibition of 1866 no less than seventy-two of his pictures were shown, and they fre- quently appear in the yearly exhibitions of works by the "Old Masters" at Burlington House, e.g. in 1881 of a total of twenty-three Flemish pictures, eight were by his hand. In the Pinakothek, Munich, the finest portraits are pendents, representing a Burgomaster of Antwerp and His Wife, both clothed in rich black robes. The pride of the Liechtenstein Gallery at Vienna are a Princess of Thurn- and- Taxis, and a Head of a Warrior, full of energy and power, said to be the famous Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, the adversary of Gustavus Adolphus, and one of the most prominent chieftains in the Thirty Years' War. The Hermitage also possesses a fine collection of por- traits by Van Dyck : one of Charles I. of England, at twenty-five years of age, and Henrietta Maria of France, at twenty-six; the former in armour and the latter in court dress ; and others. The Louvre is not less rich. It possesses a Portrait of Charles I, life-size, in the elegant costume of the cavaliers, and the Three children of Charles and Henrietta Maria, all celebrated, all crowned after their exile — Charles II., James II, and Mary, wife of William of Orange, whose son became William III. of England. There are, besides,