. A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the National loan exhibition, in aid of National gallery funds, held in the Grafton Galleries, London (1909-1910) . chitectural background. No information has been obtained respecting this picture. The bust ofHippocrates makes it probable that it is the portrait of a physician ; but in theold catalogues it is noticed as a picture after the life with two hands. . .This picture was bought by Anthony, Earl of Kent, at Mr. Edward DaviesAuction-house in 1640.—Extract from a Catalogue compiled by Earl de Greyin 1834. Canvas. 48 in. x 36 in. ( x
. A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the National loan exhibition, in aid of National gallery funds, held in the Grafton Galleries, London (1909-1910) . chitectural background. No information has been obtained respecting this picture. The bust ofHippocrates makes it probable that it is the portrait of a physician ; but in theold catalogues it is noticed as a picture after the life with two hands. . .This picture was bought by Anthony, Earl of Kent, at Mr. Edward DaviesAuction-house in 1640.—Extract from a Catalogue compiled by Earl de Greyin 1834. Canvas. 48 in. x 36 in. ( x ). A piece of paper affixed to the back of the canvas, apparently during thelast century, gives the following details : Portrait, supposed of a of Mr. Edward Davis (? Davies) by Anthony, Earl of Kent, 1687. The appearance of this hitherto unexhibited and at present unidentifiedwork recalls the reference in M. Max Rooses Rubens: Sa Vie et Ses CEircres,1903, p. 79, to a portrait, now lost or unrecognised, of the German doctorJohn Faber, who was painted by Rubens when he was in Rome in 1605. Athenaum, Nov. 27, 1909. Lent by Lord Lucas. 40. 80P. P. RUBENS: 1577-1640 Flemisli SclioolQUEEN TOMYRIS WITH THE HEAD OF CVIILS THE Queen, with attendant ladies and two pages, commands thatthe head of Cyrus (whom she has just defeated in hattle) beimmersed in a bowl of human blood, while a group of Massegeta?warriors look on. A composition of fifteen figures and a dog. Dante refers to this occurrence in the Purgatorio, where the Florentine Was shown the scath and cruel mangling madeBy Tomyris on Cyrus, when she cried, Blood thou didst thirst for ; take thy fill of blood. —Rev. H. F. Garys translation, canto xii. vv. 50-52. The principal figures all by Rubens.—Dillon: Rubens, 1909, p. 232. Perhaps the finest example of Rubenss genius that we have left in ourEnglish private collections.—Dillon: op. ci!., p. 51. The effect is marvellously striking ; and the contrast betwe
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