This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... robe with long sleeves, and a grey turban with a strip hanging down in front. He is beardless and wears spectacles. On the table before him a book standing upright and a skull in front of it. Behind the table is seen his lion's head. Looped up in the arch above his head is a greenish curtain. In 1. panel St John, sitting facing spectator, behind a table, with a pen in his hand and a paper and writing materials before him. He is beardless, with long brown hair, and wears loose reddish mantle; under this on his r. forearm is seen the sleeve of a green undergarment. On table to r. lilies in a pot, above them a scroll, and the eagle behind St John's shoulder. A drab curtain looped up over his head. Panels, 6" by 3," arched at top. Mesman. I. 275. Young man holding a skull. Half-length, face threequarters full, head inclined to r. A very young man with thick yellow ringlets; wears a black cap with red and white ostrich feathers trailing on r., a black cloak over a slate-coloured doublet slashed with white, low in front, with an embroidered shirt below it. His 1. hand held before his body supports a skull, half buried in the folds of his cloak, to which he points with the r. Background pale green. Panel, 6f" by 4$." Mesman. This picture appears to be a copy of L. van Ley den by a German artist under D iire r's influence. LIEVENS. Jan Andries Lievens (or Livens). Dutch Schoo1. Bor n at Antwerp, 1644; married at Amsterdam, 1668 (proclamation of banns, April 17), to AnnaBrogh: inscribed painter of Amsterdam, Dec. 13, 1668. Worked at Amsterdam. Place and date of death uncertain. Was son of Jan Lievens and of his first wife the daughter of Colijns de Nole, sculptor of Antwerp. III. 28. Portrait of the father of Sir Matthew...