[701]. For these and the following extracts, see C. L. P., iv. pt. ii. 3097-98, 3104, 3107.
[702]. C. L. P., v. 952. See p. 262. The name suggests Nicholas Lysard or Lyzarde, serjeant-painter to Queen Elizabeth, who was also in the service of Henry and Edward VI. He died in 1570, and has been usually regarded as an Englishman. See vol. ii., pp. 309-10. Possibly, however, Lasora was not an Italian. He may have been the “Nic. Leysure, a German,” mentioned in the royal accounts, in September 1539, as receiving payment under a warrant for 200 cr. soleil for life.
[703]. Woltmann, 264. Reproduced by Law, Holbein’s Pictures at Windsor Castle, Pl. i.; Davies, p. 130; Knackfuss, fig. 100; Ganz, Holbein, p. 72.
[704]. C. L. P., iv. pt. iii. 5774.
[705]. Law, Holbein’s Pictures, &c., p. 3.
[706]. Woltmann, 282; Wornum, i. 1; Sir R. Holmes, i. 11. Reproduced by Davies, p. 210. A second fine drawing of Guldeford, on a reddish a different version from the one at Windsor, was in Mr. J. P. Heseltine’s collection of drawings, dispersed in 1912.
[707]. Mr. Lionel Cust notes a roundel painting of Guldeford in the collection of Lord Kinnaird at Rossie Priory (Burl. Mag., August 1912, p. 258).
[708]. On panel, 25½ in. × 20½ in.
[709]. Woltmann, “Holbein at the National Portrait Gallery,” Fortnightly Review, vol. vi. 1866, p. 160; also Life, i. 344.
[710]. The English Connoisseur, 1776, vol. i. p. 145; Dodsley’s London and its Environs Described, vol. iii. p. 268 (quoted by Mr. Law, p. 4).