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ever, that he has been generally misunderstood, and even by the sagacious Frederick the Great himself, who wrote his Anti-Machiavel in oppo- sition to his politics. Machiavel gives but too true a picture of human life, but does nor oiler it as a pattern. Obiit 1530. This is a whole-length copy by Vandyck, from Titian; the fire of the eye and the sagacity of the countenance mark at once boldness and depth of thought; the hair is black, and face handsome and fleshy.
A Lady, by Sir Peter Lely. A Man s portrait, unknown; Lort/S/A7^or^,half-lcngth 3 bvVand :ck.
Robert Rich Earl of Warwick; of whom Lord Clarendon gives a full but not very favourable character, " a man of dissolute moral , companion- '- able wit, and deep hypocrisv, who connived to " get in with the Puritans, and pa-:s for a godly -- man." He was appointed lord in'gii admiral by rlie Parliament, and was in great confidence with Cromwell, to whose daughter lie married ins luar. I ie improved his estate more than any 01 tiiose who trafficked in rebellion. Ob. 165H, Wet. 71. i'his was painted by Vandyck in 1642: I here is er.ee spirit and courage in the face.
Marquis ofllurdly, by Vandyck. R'. bens' first
- Afc, by himself. Dtivila the historian; half-
th, hv Vandvck.
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