. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. he roseto eminence very quickly. He was several times in Spain by invitationof Emperor Charles V. and Philip II., and executed many likenessesof the royal family. Several admirable examples of his work are pre-served in Madrid. He also went to England to paint the portrait ofQueen Mary. We have no example to offer in these pages of the Jomard portrait ofColumbus, but it may be seen in the American edition of Irvings Columbus,published by G. P. Putnams Sons. The features are elongated more thanin most of the portraits extant, and the Fl
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. he roseto eminence very quickly. He was several times in Spain by invitationof Emperor Charles V. and Philip II., and executed many likenessesof the royal family. Several admirable examples of his work are pre-served in Madrid. He also went to England to paint the portrait ofQueen Mary. We have no example to offer in these pages of the Jomard portrait ofColumbus, but it may be seen in the American edition of Irvings Columbus,published by G. P. Putnams Sons. The features are elongated more thanin most of the portraits extant, and the Flemish ruff, pointed beard, goldchain, with other adornments, have created doubts as to its said he found this canvas at Vicenza, with the name of Columbusinscribed upon it, and he fully believed in it, accounting for the accessoriesthrough the supposition that they had been added by a later sent a lithograph of it to Irving, but the latter was skeptical; andJomards views obtained no sympathy with Carderera and Feuillet de. 250 A GROUP OF COLUMBUS PORTRAITS Couches, both of whom rejected it** The nearest approach to the Jomardstyle in our group may be observed in the little oval picture on page portrait of Columbus in his youth is of deep interest, and the like-ness is unquestionably the same as that of the subject of the picture onthe preceding page, allowing for the difference in age. The younger facereveals the more character of the two, for which we are possibly indebted to the engraver. It has the character-istics of the future navigator as wehave been taught to understand them,the wrestling with ideas too large forhis brain, the amused concern withwhich he touches the edge of specula-tive romance. The new epoch in theart of printing was at its work ofscattering misinformation. Some geo-graphical knowledge was interwovenwith an immense amount of absurdfiction. The wonderful impulse givento navigation by means of the magneticneedle was
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