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 *el of the Florentines at Lyons.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; Landon, xiv. Pl. 41.

Subject treated also by Girolamo Muziano, Louvre, Paris; Simone Cantarini, Munich Gallery; Gerard Honthorst, Madrid Museum; Bernardo Strozzi, Palazzo Brignoli sale, Genoa; Padovannino, Eremitani, Padua; Salvator Rosa, Church della Morte, Viterbo; Santi di Tito, Cathedral of Borgo San Sepolcro; Cavaliere Calabrese, Dresden Gallery; Anton van Dyck, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Rubens, Antwerp Museum; Cima da Conegliano, National Gallery, London; Alphonse Masson (Salon, 1839); Louis Lamothe (1855).

THOMAS AQUINAS, ST., TRIUMPH OF, Benozzo Gozzoli, Louvre; wood, H. 7 ft. 6 in. × 3 ft. 4 in. Above, Christ in glory, surrounded by cherubim, with St. Paul at his right holding a book and a sword, Moses at his left with the tables of the law, and the Evangelists in front; in the middle, St. Thomas seated between Aristotle and Plato, with Guillaume de St. Amour, doctor of the University of Paris, below them, overcome by St. Thomas's eloquence; in lower part, Pope Alexander IV., assisted by two chamberlains, presiding over the assembly held in 1256, concerning the mendicant orders, which were attacked by St. Amour and defended by Thomas Aquinas.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 50; Villot, Cat. Louvre.

THOMAS OF VILLANUEVA, ST., Murillo, Lord Ashburton, London; canvas, H. 6 ft. 3 in. × 4 ft. 9 in. The saint, represented as a boy six or seven years old, is taking off his garments to supply the wants of four ragged boys; background, a street with buildings and figures. Painted about 1678 for Convent of St. Augustine, Seville; sold by Monks to the Prince of the Peace, who presented it to General Sebastiani; purchased in 1814 by Mr. Baring, an ancestor of present owner. One of the finest Murillos in England. Sketch, Lord Ashburton, The Grange, Hants. Copies: Cadiz Cathedral; Duc de Montpensier; Condesa de la Mejorada; Don Rodrigo de Quirios, Seville.—C. Bermudez, ii. 60; Buchanan, Memoirs, ii. 264; Ponz, Viage, ix. 136; Jameson, Monastic Orders, 202; Curtis, 269; Waagen, ii. 101.

By Murillo, Earl of Northbrook, London; canvas, H. 4 ft. 3 in. × 2 ft. 5 in. The saint, wearing a mitre and accompanied by an attendant with a crozier, stands in an archway giving alms to a kneeling beggar, who is surrounded by other beggars; above, the Virgin, seated on clouds, with Jesus in her arms and two children clinging to her lap; on left, a church, seen through an opening. Painted about 1678 for Chapel of St. Thomas in Convent of St. Augustine, Seville. Louis Philippe sale (1853), £710, to Thomas Baring, uncle of Earl of Northbrook. Ford calls it "one of the finest sketches of Murillo in existence." Lithographed by A. Pinçon.—Curtis, 270; Athenæum (1853), 655; Gaz. des B. Arts, April, 1875; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole.

By Murillo, Seville Museum; canvas, H. 9 ft. 6 in. × 6 ft. 4 in. The Archbishop of Valencia, with mitre and pastoral staff, standing front under a Grecian portico, dropping a coin into the hand of a kneeling beggar; in foreground, on left, an old woman seated, with a boy standing at her knee; at right, two other beggars and a nun; at left, an open book on a table; background, architecture, with columns wreathed above with a curtain. Painted about 1676 for Capuchin Convent, Seville. Murillo called this his own picture, and it is one of his finest works.—Curtis, 268; Jameson, Monastic Orders.

By Murillo, Sir Richard Wallace, Bart., London; canvas, H. 4 ft. 11 in. × 5 ft. The saint, wearing a skull-cap, is giving money to a half-naked beggar sitting on a stone; he is attended by an ecclesiastic holding a mitre, and another holding a crook; before him, a boy examining a coin; at right, a group of beggars; and at left, architecture. Second manner. Bought by Mr. Irvine from Capuchin Convent, Genoa, and sold to Mr. Wells, of Redleaf, for £1,000; sold