Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . political mission to England. While there, Charles I. engaged himto paint the apotheosis of his father, in the banqueting-house of Whitehall; forwhich he received three thousand pounds. He also painted Charles in thecharacter of St. George, and Henrietta Maria as Cleodelinde; with Rich-mond and the Thames in the distance. For these wo
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . political mission to England. While there, Charles I. engaged himto paint the apotheosis of his father, in the banqueting-house of Whitehall; forwhich he received three thousand pounds. He also painted Charles in thecharacter of St. George, and Henrietta Maria as Cleodelinde; with Rich-mond and the Thames in the distance. For these works he was knighted, onthe 21st of February, 1630. Rubens having accomplished the object for whichhe had been sent to the English court, returned to the Netherlands, and wasreceived with all the honors due to his extraordinary services. He had nowattained his fifty-eighth year, when he was attacked with violent fits of the gout,which obliged him to abandon large works, and confine his pencil to easel pic-tures. Yet he continued to practise his art, and to instruct pupils, until hisdeath, in 1640. He was buried with great funeral pomp, in the church ofSt. James, at Antwerp, where his widow and children erected a monument tohis memory. QUEEN ELIZABETH. 12?. QUEEN ELIZABETH. ELIZABETH, queen of England, and one of its most celebrated sovereigns, wasfiorn September 7, 1533. She was the daughter of Henry VIII. by his secondwife, Anne Boleyn. She was educated in the principles of the reformed reli-gion, and her early years were passed in privacy, a measure rendered necessaryby the jealousy of her catholic sister Mary, who finally caused her to be arrestedin 1554, and confined to the Tower on a false charge of treason, but her lifewas saved by the interposition of Philip, the husband of Mary, and she wasremoved to Woodstock. On the death of Mary, November 17, 1558, Elizabeth was drawn from her ob-scurity and proclaimed queen, being received with acclamation by the
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