[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF A DUTCH GENTLEMAN. _By_ SIR ANTONIS MORE.]
In the reign of Edward VI. GWILLIM STRETES was made Painter to the King. Strype records that he was paid fifty marks for two pictures of the King, and one of _Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey_, who was beheaded in 1547. KATHERINE MAYNORS and GERBACH FLICK--evidently a Dutchman, one of whose drawings belonged to Richardson and is dated 1547--were here at this time; Flick's likeness of _Cranmer_ (signed GERBARUS FLICIUS), painted in 1546, is now in the National Portrait Gallery. They continued the practice of art in this country. At Irnham is a fine full-length portrait of _Lord Darcy of Chirke_, dated 1551. NICHOLAS LYZARDI was second painter to King Edward, and succeeded TOTO, as Sergeant-Painter to Elizabeth. JOHANNES CORVUS painted the likeness of _Fox, Bishop of Winchester_, which belongs to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and which was at the National Portrait Exhibition, 1866, No. 46. Corvus has been identified by Mr. Scharf as the artist of a fine portrait, dated 1532, of _Mary Tudor_, wife of Louis XII., and the Duke of Suffolk. WILLIAM KEY, or CAIUS, as he called himself, was born at Breda in 1520 and died 1568. Some of his pictures were, as Mr. Scharf has noticed, in the collections of Charles I., and the Duke of Buckingham. A carver, and probably painter, well known at this period in England, whose works are, however, no longer to be identified, was NICHOLAS OF MODENA, who made _pictures_, possibly small coloured statues, of Henry VIII. and Francis I. It is worth while to mention that one P. OUDRY, apparently a Frenchman, was busily employed in this country about 1578, and painted various portraits of _Mary, Queen of Scots_, one of which is in the National Portrait Gallery, while others are at Cobham, Hardwick, Hatfield, and Welbeck.
In the reign of Mary I. we find art represented by SIR ANTONIS MOR, MORO, or MORE (1512--1576--78), a native of Utrecht, who had painted and studied in Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Philip II. was his especial patron, and gave him a gold chain for the portrait of his gloomy Queen. He came to England in 1553, was made painter to the Court, and received very large prices for his pictures. He remained till the Queen's death, in 1558, when he returned to Madrid. He afterwards established himself at Brussels, under the protection of the Duke of Alva, but in 1572 removed to Antwerp, where he died. His portraits of _Jeanne d'Archel_, in the National Gallery, and of _Sir T. Gresham_, in the National Portrait Gallery, are excellent examples of his skill. JOOST VAN CLEEF (15001536?), a native of Antwerp, also painted portraits at this time with considerable success. From his overweening conceit, which led him into furious quarrels, he was called Zotte (foolish) Cleef. His portrait, by himself, is in the Althorp Gallery.