[6] Holbein painted the little Prince Edward, afterwards Edward VI., in two extant portraits,—one, a miniature, in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, another at Windsor.
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[7] The dates of Gainsborough’s life are 1727-1788.
[8] The two pictures for which Jack Hill served as model are Jack Hill in a Cottage, and Jack Hill, with his Cat, in a Wood.
[9] Gainsborough was followed by several English artists celebrated for their pictures of the child-life of the country. Of these, the most notable were Sir David Wilkie and William Collins. Wilkie’s Blind-Man’s Buff, and Collins’s Happy as a King are representative examples of their work.
[10] Jean Baptiste Greuze was born in 1725, and died in 1805.
[11] The Father Explaining the Bible to his Children is now in the Dresden Gallery. Mrs. Stranahan, in her History of French Painting, calls attention to the fact that the poet Robert Burns celebrates the same scene in his Cotter’s Saturday Night.
[12] The Village Bride, called in French, “L’Accordée du Village,” is in the Louvre, Paris.
[13] Although Greuze is usually spoken of as introducing a new line of subjects into French art, it is fair to say that Chardin (1699-1799) had already given the initiative. The Little Girl at Breakfast, exhibited at the Salon of 1737, and Le Bénédicité, from the Salon of 1740, are highly praised by Mrs. Stranahan for their sympathetic treatment of domestic scenes in humble life.