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[beginning of page] 9. in need of money, decided to sell the whole of the collection, which during the entire 18th century had remained in the Palais Royal. They were divided into two divisions. The first containing the pictures of the Italian and French schools was bought by a banker of Brussels, and later sold in London. The second, comprising those of the German, Dutch and Flemish schools was bought by Mr. Thomas Moore Hade in conjunction with three other gentlemen, and conveyed in 1792 to Mr. Hade's house at Chatham. In 1793 it was brought to London, exhibited and sold at auction. In it were two paintings by Holbein, one a portrait of George Gisze, now in the museum at Berlin, and the other simply mentioned as a portrait, though probably the one of Sir Thomas More. Waagen in his "Art Treasures in Great Britain" gives a list of the pictures sold, in volume II pp.499 to 503. It is not yet known by whom this picture was purchased or where it was before entering the collection of Mr. Farrer. From the possession of Mr. Farrer the picture passed into that of Mr. Henry Huth and from him to Mr. Edward Huth, the last owner.

                  From the above it may be believed that the portrait

of Sir Thomas More by Holbein has been in the following collections:

            Collection of King Henry VIII of England
                       "            Monsignor Campori, Rome (?)
                       "            the Palazzo Crescenzi, Rome
                       "            Phillip the Regent, Duke of Orleans, Paris. 
                       "            The Dukes of Orleans (his heirs) in the 
                       "                            Galleries of the Palais Royal, Paris. 

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