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of the continual trouble that attended portrait-painting ;
and being defirous of immortalising his name, by fome
more glorious undertaking, went to Paris; in hopes of
being employed in the grand gallery of the Louvre ;
but not fucceeding there,, he returned, and propofed to
the king (by his" friend, Six Kenelm Digby) to, make
cartoons for the Banqueting-Houfe at Whitehall : the
fubjedt of which was to have been the inftitution of the
order of the garter, the procefuon of the knights in their
habits, with the ceremony of their inftallment, and St.
George's feaft. But his demands of fourfcore thoufand
pounds, being thought unreafonable,. while the King was
treating with him for a lefs fum, the gout, and other
diftempers, put an end to his life, anno 1641. He was?
interred in St. Paul's church.

An engraving in aqua-tinta from one of the (ketches
for the Banqueting Houfe, has been publilhed within
thefe two or three years.

His price for a half length was forty pounds } for a
whole length fkty.

It is true that public ftructures and pompous edifices,
may dilplay the eftimation of polite arts in a nation ; yet
are fuch buildings not infrequently devoted to purfuits in
which the bulk of mat very nation are not only uninte-
refted, but to which they have little or no inclination.
We are therefore pleafed to find that individuals whofe
knowledge places them in a refpeclable fituation, dis-
cover an acquaintance with the arts, whenever occafion
admits. In a volume of entertaining difcourfes on va-
2 rious