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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
The fact that the Society of Antiquaries possesses one of the most important and the earliest dated of the portraits ascribed to the hand of Lucas D'Heere, the poet-painter of Ghent, may cause the Fellows of the Society to take some interest in the life and works of this artist.
Lucas D'Heere is not one of those painters whose life has fallen into oblivion through want of biographers. Carel van Mander, who in 1604 published his precious collection of biographies of Flemish, Dutch, and German painters, was actually a pupil of D'Heere, and included a full notice of his master's life in his series, which, from the intimate connection between the two painters, may fairly be accepted as authoritative. Further his biographies are avowedly based on a similar collection made by Lucas D'Heere himself.
page 59 note a See van Mander, Carel, Le Livre des Peintres; Vie des Peintres flamands, Hollandais et allemands (1604). Traduction, Notes, et Commentaires, par Henri Hymans … 2 vols. 4to. Paris, 1884Google Scholar.
page 60 note a This paper was republislied in 1853, under the title “Levensschets van Lucas D'Heere, Kunstschilder te Gent ” (xvie eeuw), door Philips Blommaert. 8vo. Gent, 1853.
page 60 note b Recherches sur les peintres et sculpteurs à Gand aux xvi., xvii., et xviii. siècles, par Edmond de Busscher. 8vo. Gand, 1866.
page 61 note a See Marcus van Vaernewyck, Van de Beroerlicke Tijden in die Nederlanden, chap, xviii. (Maatsch der Vlaamsche Bibliophilen).
page 62 note a Lodovico Guicciardini, Description de tout le Pais-Bas, &c.; p. 134 (Antwerp, G. Silvius, 1568.
page 62 note b See Motley, Rise of the Dutch Republic, Hist. Intro., xi.
page 63 note a In D'Heere's MS. of the entry of the Due d'Anjon into Ghent, now at Berlin, ho alludes in the dedication to that prince to the time which he had spent in the service of his mother.
page 63 note b Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, Eglises de Gand, 4to. Ghent, 1857.
page 64 note a They were placed in their present position by order of the chapter in 1771. They were taken down and exhibited at the Heraldic Exhibition held at Ghent in 1889, and a complete list will be found in the catalogue of that exhibition, Catalogue de l'Exposition d'Art heraldique et des Armoiries des Chevaliers de la Toison d'Or. Gand, 1889.
page 64 note b He was son of Antony of Burgundy, Seigneur of Beures by Marie, daughter of André de Bruan, Seigneur of Waeken.
page 65 note a This volume is excessively rare; a copy is in the University Library at Ghent. It was printed by Ghislain Manilius at Ghent in 1565. For a description see Ferdinand Vanderhaeghen's Bibliographie Gantoise, i. 184.
page 65 note b Also printed by Ghislain Manilius, Bibl. Gant.
page 65 note c See Ermerius, Zeeuwsche Oudheden, iii. 60–61. Middelburg, 1792.
page 65 note d See Moens, Reg. of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, “25 Mei, 1574, Karolus Rijckart, gheseit Theophilus, van Nieukercke met Lowijseken Carboniers van Bevere” (sic but Tervere). Also Archaeologia, li. 209.
page 66 note a See Max Rooses's Christophe Plantin imprimeur Anversois, folio, Antwerp, 1882, p. 273.
page 66 note b See Motley, chap. ii.
page 66 note c See Gachard's Bulletins de la Commission Royale d'Histoire en Belgique.
page 66 note d Moens, Reg. Dutch Church. Baptisms, “31 Mei, 1576. Drossaert, Susanna, f. Pieter; test.: Lucas d'Heere, Loysken ux. Caroli Ryckewarts, etc.”
page 67 note a Douce MS. 68, purchased by Mr. Douce at Mr. Henderson's sale.
page 67 note b “Cum Hispani hoc omne Antverpise inter cætera ALBUM amicorum illi eripuissent, in quo doctissimorum hominum amicorum suorum elogia inerant in locum prioris amissi hoc alterum sibi faciendum curavit, 1575.”
page 67 note c There are also autographs and drawings by Philip Galle, G. Hoefnagel, Hubert Goltzius, and others.
page 67 note d Sir Thomas Gresham.
page 68 note a See The Magazine of Art, August, 1891.
page 68 note b Ditto
page 69 note a See Motley, Part iv. chap. v.
page 69 note b “Beschryuinghe van het ghene dat vertooclit wierdt ter incôste van d'Excellentie des Prince vā Orangien binnen der Stede van Ghendt den xxix Decembris, 1577.” It was published in 1578 by the widow of Pieter de Clerck at Ghent; two other editions appeared in the same year. It was reprinted in 1852 by the Société des Bibliophiles Flamands (Bibl. Gant.).
page 69 note c Tractaet ofte handelinge van der Kercke, daer in gheleerdelick enie treffelick ghedisputeert wordt op alle de bysonderste questien, die in onse tyden hebben opgheworpen gheweest Eerst in francoys ende latijn ghemaeckt by P. van Mornay, heer van Plessis, Marlyn, etc., ende nu ouerghestelt in nederlantsche sprake ende versiert met eene tafele om alle bysondere printen ende materien te vinden, door L. D'Heere,” published at Antwerp by Jaspar Troyens, 1580.
page 70 note a A copy of the French edition of 1582 is among the books on Pageants bequeathed by Mr. F. W. Fairholt to the Society of Antiquaries.
page 70 note b Levenschets van Simon Styl door Jacobus Scheltema. 8vo., Amsterdam, 1804.
page 70 note c Het Leven en de Letterkundige Verrigtingen van den Geschichschrijver, Mr. Jacobus Scheltema, beschreven door P. Scheltema. 8vo., Amsterdam, 1849.
page 70 note d See page 67.
page 71 note a See page 67.
page 71 note b See Bulletin de l'Alliance des Arts, Paris, 1845Google Scholar, and Recherches sur les Peintres et Sculpteurs du Gand au xvie siècle. Ghent, 1866Google Scholar.
page 71 note c French translation at length in Carel van Mander (Hymans), i. 34.
page 72 note a See page 64.
page 72 note b An etching in outline by C. Onghena accompanies P. Blommaert's Notice, and a similar etching by C. T. Felt appears in E. de Busscher's Recherches etc., p. 26.
page 72 note c For a more complete description of the picture, see E. de Busscher's Recherches etc., p. 30.
page 73 note a “Ontfaen by my Lucas d'Heere, uut der hand van Cornells Breydel, secretaris van myn heere den proost van Ste. Baefs, de somme van sestich gulden en dat in vulle betalynghe van een groot tafereel waer op St. Baefs med de stede van Ghend neffens gheschildert hebbe by laste van mynen voornoemde heere T'orconden myns hand teeokens hier onder ghesteld dizen xie january xvc lxiiij, Lucas d'Heere, 1564.”
page 73 note b “Betaelt aen joncheer Jan de Neue, de somme van xx pp. gr. zoo vele alse de kercke sculdicli was meester Lucas, scildere, tot Grhendt, van tscilderen van den tafereele staende in den hoghen autaer, ende waervan de helft oock x pp.gr ghejont ende betaelt es door den voorn. joncheer Jan.
“Betaelt aen den zelven joncheer Jan de somme van iiij pp. gr., zoo vele alse hy betaelt heeft Mre. Jan de Smytere, tot Ghendt, voor den voorn, meester Luuc in stede van den ferwelen van den pourpoincte die besproken was den selven Mre. Luuc toegeleyt te werdene, int accoort vant tafereel by hem gemaect voor de kercke, ende by appoinctemente in ghelde ghegeven,” Journal des Beaux-Arts et de la Litterature, Brussels, Dec. 12, 1868.
page 74 note a For a full description see E. Law's Catalogue of the pictures at Hampton Court Palace p. 218, No. 635; also O'Donoghue's, F. M.Descriptive and Classified Catalogue of Portraits of Queen Elizabeth, (1894) p. 2Google Scholar, No. 5; the picture is reproduced in The Magazine of Art, August, 1891.
page 74 note b Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor, New Gallery, London, 1890 No. 158; and also a reproduction in The Magazine of Art, August, 1891.
page 74 note c O'Donoghue, Portraits of Queen Elizabeth, p. 6, No. 18; sometimes stated to be portraits of the Countesses of Shrewsbury and Salisbury.
page 75 note a From notes of Mr. West's sale on March 31, 1773, it appears that this picture was purchased by Sir Joshua Reynolds for £84, having cost Mr. West only 7s. 6s.; Walpole appears however to have acquired it immediately.
page 75 note b O'Donoghue, Ibid. p. 64, No. 134.
page 75 note c Tudor Exhibition, 1890, No. 206; Magazine of Art, August, 1891. A copy of this picture was lent to the same exhibition (No. 200), by the Earl of Ashburnham.
page 76 note a Tudor Exhibition, 1890, No. 235.
page 76 note b Tudor Exhibition, 1890, No. 230; kindly lent for exhibition at the Society of Antiquaries, on March 10, 1892.
page 76 note c Engraved by J. Brown for the Granger Society in 1841.
page 76 note d See G. Scharf's Catalogue of the pictures at Woburn Abbey, No. 12.
page 76 note e Ibid. No. 23.
page 76 note f Tudor Exhibition, 1890, No. 255, and Magazine of Art, August, 1891.
page 76 note g Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 23,070.
page 76 note h See The Magazine of Art, August, 1891.
page 76 note f Hanged in 1541 for the murder of a keeper during a poaching fray in Sussex. See C. W. Chute's A History of the Vyne, 147.
page 77 note a See Maxwell-Lyte's Dunster and its Lords, 73, and Archaeological Journal, xxxvii. 281Google Scholar.
page 77 note b This picture was found in the bottom of an old chest in a house opposite the minster at Southwell, and was kindly lent for exhibition at the Society of Antiquaries on, March 10, 1892.
page 77 note c For this I am indebted to Mr. W. H. St. John Hope.
page 78 note a Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 23,071; this portrait appears to have been small and copied from a full length original at Arundel Castle.
page 78 note b Ibid.
page 78 note c Ibid. 23,070.
page 78 note d Engraved by P. W. Tomkins in Richard lord Braybrooke's History of Audley End.
page 78 note e The head of Lord Darnley from this picture was engraved by G. Vertue.
page 78 note f Tudor Exhibition, No. 83.
page 79 note a Tudor Exhibition, No. 455.
page 79 note b Catalogue, No. 310.
page 79 note c Catalogue, No. 3.
page 79 note d National Portrait Exhibition, 1866, No. 178.
page 79 note e See Waagen's, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, iv. 355Google Scholar.
page 79 note f J. C. L. Sparkes' Catalogue of the Cartwright collection and other Pictures and Portraits at Dulwich College, 1884, No. 62.
page 79 note e Exhibition of the Royal House of Stuart, the New Gallery, London, 1889, No. 33.
page 80 note a Sale catalogue, No. 33; formerly in the collection of Samuel Rogers.
page 80 note b Paquot, Jean Noel, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire littéraire des dix-sept Provinces des Pays-Bus, etc. (Louvain, 1765–1770), i. 422Google Scholar.