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 304 THE PORTEAITS OF JOHN KNOX. ' ing, and by the mediums used, which produced a ' peculiar only to the paintings of that period. Its ' was done after a smaller picture, as it is not probable ' by Holbein, Albrecht Diirer, the contemporary and ' previous masters) are a little under life-size, as the 'sitter would appear to the painter at a certain ' distance. ' of Porbus than of any other painter of that time, ' ever been in England, as judging by the fact that he ' painted Knox's contemporary George Buchanan, wo ' at Briiges, Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp, I carefully ' examined no less than forty portraits by Francis ' Porbus, le vieux. There are two pictures at Bruges
 * certain circular cracking througliout the picture,
 * being a little over the size of nature suggests that it
 * that, had it been done from life, or from a life-sized
 * head, the artist would have got into those propor-
 * tions ; and most of the portraits by Porbus (as also
 * The Somerville Picture at first reminded me more
 * although I did not then know whether Porbus had
 * may now fairly suppose was the case. Last autumn
 * in each of which are sixteen portrait heads, carefully
 * painted and well preserved, somewhat smaller than