suredly, have written the two words in question over the portrait of Shakspeare.

When Mr. Steevens assumed the year 1618 to be that of Jansen's arrival in England, he could not but know that Walpole's book itself exhibited a doubt when he arrived. According to Sandrart, he was born in London,* of Flemish parents; but, Vertue, and the author of an essay towards an English school, say it was at Amsterdam, where, the latter asserts, that he resided long; the former, that he came over young." Mr. Vertue also pronounced his earliest performances to be his best. It is extremely probable that Sandrart was right in his assertion, and that Jansen, born among us, started as a painter in London; but, however this may be,

*232.

Cornelius Jansonius Londinensis.

Belgis propterea annumerari potest, quia Parentes ejus in Belgico Hispanico nati fuerant, et ob tumultus saltem bellicos Londinum concesserant, ubi hunc deinde genuére filium. Hic cum ad artem pictoriam sese applicuisset, iconibus potissimum conficiendis operam dedit; unde in servitia Caroli Stuarti Regis Angliæ assumtus, Regis atque Reginæ, totiusque aulæ elegantes elaborabat effigies. Ortis autem inter Regem hunc atque Parlamentum dissidiis, adeóque in turbas hasce involutâ tota Anglia, Jansonius noster unà fere cum omnibus celebri oribus artificibus aliis ex Anglia discedebat, translato in Hollandium tum temporis omni felicitatis genere affluentem, domicilio: ibidemque postquam icones confecisset egregias plurimas, tandem anno 1665. Amstelodami ex hac miseriarum valle emigravit. Sandrart. Academiæ Picturæ Nobilis, Caput xx. p. 314.