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 600 Painting left several pupils, and amongst others Michael Wright (d. 1700), who attained some celebrity as a portrait painter. John Hoskins (d. 1664), a clever miniature painter, has left excellent portraits of Charles I. and his Queen and many of the nobility. His nephew and pupil, Samuel Cooper (1609 — 1672), was likewise a good miniaturist. He painted excellent portraits of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II. and his Court ; he was on intimate terms with Pepys, by whom he is mentioned with praise. James Gandy (1619 — 1689), a good painter, lived nearly always in Ireland, in the service of the Duke of Ormond. His son, William Gandy, who settled at Exeter, is also considered as an artist of repute. In London, one of the three sons of Nicholas Stone, the celebrated sculptor, — Henry Stone, called " Old Stone " (d. 1653) to distinguish him from his brothers, also painted in the style of Van Dyck. In the National Portrait Gallery there is a portrait by him of Inigo Jones, copied from Van Dyck. But the greatest Englishman who followed Van Dyck was — William Dobson (1610 — 1646), a true artist, whose portraits are worth little less than those of his master. He studied under Francis Cleyn (d. 1658), and it is related that Van Dyck having seen in a shop window a picture by Dobson, took him into his studio and introduced him to Charles I. After the death of Van Dyck, Dobson held the posts of serjeant painter, and of groom of the privy cham- ber, and in this office he accompanied the Court to Oxford, where he painted the Portrait of the King. Dobson's works are found in many of the l^est galleries of the English nobility. Robert Walker painted portraits of Cromwell, Sir