Vandyck In England.

ever , other likenesses of Wentworth that are very fine , and in Vandyck's best manner . At Wentworth House ( in Yorkshire ) is a noble full-length of him in armour ; another , not inferior , is at Wentivorth Castle , iu the same county ; a third , with truncheon in left hand , his right extended , is

at Welbeck . At Petworth there is a first-rate half-length of the same earl , also in armour , standing ; a rock , and skirmish , in the background . One of his noblest portraits is at ? KnoAvle , in Kent—a full-length of Edward Sackvillefourth .

, Earl of Dorset ( d . 1652)—the Sackville who fought the bloody duel with Lord Edivard Bruce . Duplicate at Gorhainbury . The fmest of Ben Jonson ' s epistles in verse , is addressed to this nobleman , in acknowledgment of timely ancl unsought assistance : —

" Gifts stink from some , They are so long a coming , and so hard ; Where any deed is forced , the grace is marred . " JBeii- Jonson .

Lord Dorset's wife ( a Curzon by birth ) sat to Vandyck . We shall see her soon . The features and bearing - of another early encourager of his pencil ( observe the Arlington black patch ) are preserved to us by Iris ever ready and accurate hand . This was Henry Danvers , Earl

of Danby ( died 1644 ) . An original , a full-length , in Ms garter robe , went with the Houghton Collection to St . Petersburg , and in the Houghton valuation is appraised at £ 200 . This picture was given to Sir Robert Walpole by Sir John Danvers . A duplicate , if not an originalis at

Dunham-, Massey , in Cheshire , the seat of Lord Stamford and Warrington . Danvers began life as page to Sir Philip Sidney , and dying in 1644 , was buried at Dantsey , in Wilts . At Cassiobury ( Lord Essex's ) is one of the finest Vandycks in the world , the portrait , at full

length , of Algernon Percy , Earl of Northumberland , his hand resting on an anchor . This uncertain man was Lord High Admiral of England when Vandyck gave him to posterity . " He was in all his deportment , " says Clarendon , " a \ ery great man , and that Avhich looked like formalit y

was a punctuality in preserving his dignity from the invasion and intrusion of bold men , which no man of that age so well preserved himself from . " * A knee-piece ( and master-piece ) at Petworth , represents the same great earl in black , with his wifeAnne Cecilwho died in 1637 ancl their

, , , daughter Catherine , who died young . Duplicates are to be seen at Hatfield , Kimbolton , and Gorhainbury . The earl is in black , standing ; his countess in blue , sitting ; and the daughter in white , standing . The lady is the centre figure . The Hues of Waller will recur to the student

of English poetry while standing before this picture : —¦ " Tou on the barren seas , my Lord , have spent Whole springs and summers to the public lent ; Suspended all the pleasures of your life , And shorten'd the short joy of such a -wife . "

The face and form of Philip Herbert , fifth Earl of Pembroke , the first Earl of Montgomery , have been preserved to us by Vandyck , in more than one full length , aud more than one half-length . There is a full-length at Wilton , and another—not so good—at The Grove . The best half-length is

at Dulwich . There is another half-length ( seated ) at Welbeck ; but I question its parentage , though a picture , and a good one , of Vandyck ' s time . Of Philip , his son and successor in the earldom ( died 1669 ) , there is a faded half-length , in pink , at Wilton . It has been engraved by Lombart .

There is at Knowsley , in Lancashire ( Lord Derby ' s ) , a so-called Vandyck ( head-size , holding a helmet ) , of James Stanley , Earl of Derby , taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester , beheaded at Bolton , 1651 , and buried at Ormskirk , in Lancashire . At the same seat is the companion portrait of his countess , the defender of Latham House ; but I do not believe in the Vandyck parentage of either .

" The best portrait I have , " says the Duke of Leeds , writing to Sir William Musgrave , the portrait collector , in 1796 , " is a head of the Earl of Derby ( beheaded at Ormskirk ) , by Vandyck . " At Combe Abbey , in Warwickshire ( Lord Craven ' s ) , is a noble full-length of William , first

Earl Craven—the Queen of Bohemia ' s Earl . The name of this fine fellow , known by his pest-houses and his drums , is preserved in Craven-yard , Drmy-lane , and Craven-hill , Bayswater . The features and figure of EdAvard Somerset , Marquis of Worcestermay be seen on canvas

, , from Vandyck ' s hand , at Badminton , the Duke of Beaufort's , in Gloucestershire . At Longleat , in Wiltshire ( the Marquis of Bath ' s ) , is the double portrait of Robert Dormer , Earl of Caernarvon , and Ms countess , Anne SopMa , daughter of PMlip Herbert , Earl of

Pembroke ancl Montgomery . Lord Caernarvon fell at the battle of Newbury , in 1643 . There is another portrait of him at Wilton . To this nobleman Massinger dedicates his " A New Way to Pay Old Debts . " Massinger was a retainer of the Pembroke family .

Another nobleman of note ivho sat more than once to Vandyck , was Richard Weston , Earl of Portland , ancl Lord High Treasurer , Avho gave the commission to Le Soeur for the statue of Charles I ., at Charing-cross . The best portrait of him is at Gorhambury ( Lord Verulam ' s ); a duplicate is

at Kingston Lacy , DorsetsMre ; and a third at the Grove , all three full-lengths . Lord Portland was fond of the muses and of art , and often relieved Ben Jonson ' s necessities . " The head of the Kingston Lacy picture , " says Waagen , " is very