Corner, John [Oth.]: Portraits of celebrated painters, with medallions from their best performances: with authentic memoirs, from established authorities (London: published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825)

SIR ANTHONY VANDYCK.
and admiration of all the nobility and of every lover of the arts. In 1632 he
was knighted, and a pension of two hundred pounds a year was granted to him.
His magnificence and generosity were excessive; yet these, with his chimeri-
cal pursuit of the philosopher’s stone, did not prevent his growing rich.
Desirous towards the close of his life of establishing his fame by some
great public work, he went to France ; but finding that Poussin and others
possessed the esteem of the court, he returned to London, and proposed to the
king to adorn the walls of the Banquetting House with the History and Pro-
cession of the Order of the Garter; the expense of which undertaking he is
said to have estimated at 80,00(V. But the commencement of the civil war
terminated the negociation a little before his decease, which happened on the
9th Dec. 1641, in the 42d year of his age. He was married to Maria, the
daughter of Earl Gowry, by whom he left a daughter.
Many of the pictures of this indefatigable master are particularized in
Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting in England, and Le Comte’s Cabinet des
Singularity, &c. and some in Descamps, Felibien, and other biographers.