1st February, 1627. Item this daye upon the moc͠on of our Mr it is ordered by this Court that there shalbe a large wainscott frame made and a picture maker shalbe agreed withall by the present Mrs for the portreying of the Anathomye and makeing of Mr Doctor Gwins picture and the Clarkes which Charge shalbe borne out of the stock of this house, in which table shalbe placed the figures & visages of every of the Assistants whoe are not painted in the Anathomye table that now standeth upp in the Hall, every of the Assistants payeing for the setting up of his owne picture.
29th March, 1647. This Court doth order That Mr Henry Watsons ffigure in the present Table of Anatomy be blotted out and Mr Charleyes Effigies placed in the roome thereof Provided that his Executrix pay his Legacy to this House.
This Court doth order That there be a new Anathomy Table And that all the Assistants whose Effigies are not in the present Table may be sett up in the new Table at theire owne charge, and that Doctor Goddards ffigure be there sett as Reader and Doctor Prudions Effigies may be painted there if he desireth it And this Court doth order that Mr Watson a Brother of this Company shall make the said Table and paint thereon the ffigure of an Anathomy with the severall ffigures of the said Reader Doctor Prudion and our Clarke at the charge of this House And that the ffigures of the present Mrs of Anatomy be there sett as Dissectors at theire owne charge.
9th August, 1647. This Court takeing into considerac͠oon the greate benefitt and proffitt That have accrewed to this House by Mr Edward Arris a loveing Brother of this Company This Court doth order That his picture be sett up in the Blanck Table in the Hall next the Anathomy Table at the charge of this Howse.
19th August, 1647. Upon the earnest request of Mr. Edward Arris to this Court That his Picture be nott sett up in the Hall according to the Order of the last Court of Assistants This Court to satisfy Mr. Arris modest request therein doth order that that order be annulled and not put in execuc͠on.
Notwithstanding this order Mr. Arris’ portrait was painted, and is still at the Hall.
27th February, 1650. Mr Arris and Doctor Scarboroughs pictures to be sett in the void Table in the Hall at the charge of this House.
In 1720 the Court were possibly thinking of purchasing another Holbein, as the following note occurs in the minutes,
3rd March, 1720. Memorandm Mr Lenthall at Burford in Oxfordshire has a Picture of Sr Thomas More and his familey drawn by Hans Holben being a dispute between his Protestant Daughter and his Catholick Daughter in the pˀsence of the father and the rest of the familey.
21st April, 1720. It is referred to the Governors to treat with Mr Vertue the Ingraver about Ingraving King Henry the Eighths Picture and to report his proposall to a Court of Assistants.