wherefore
the Fleming Messer Domenicus Lampsonius, of whom mention will be made
in the proper place, discoursing of the two masters named above and of
this Michael, likens them to a fine trio in music, in which each plays
his part with excellence. Much esteemed, also, among the same men, is
Antonius Moor of Utrecht in Holland, painter to the Catholic King,
whose colours, they say, in portraying whatever he may choose from
nature, vie with the reality and deceive the eye most beautifully. The
same Lampsonius writes to me that Moor, who is a man of very gentle
ways and much beloved, has painted a most beautiful altar-picture of
Christ rising from the dead, with two Angels, S. Peter, and S. Paul,
which is a marvellous thing. Marten de Vos, who copies excellently
well from nature, is held to be good in invention and colouring. But
in the matter of making beautiful landscapes, none are equal to Jakob
Grimmer, Hans Bol, and others, all of Antwerp and able men, of whom,
nevertheless, I have not been able to obtain particular information.
Pieter Aertsen, called Long Peter, painted in his native city of
Amsterdam an altar-picture with wing-panels, containing Our Lady and
other Saints; which whole work cost two thousand crowns. They also
celebrate as a good painter Lambert of Amsterdam, who dwelt many years
in Venice, and had the Italian manner very well. This Lambert was the
father of Federigo, of whom, from his being one of our Academicians,
record will be made in the proper place. Pieter Brueghel of Antwerp,
likewise, they celebrate as an excellent master, and Lambert van Noort
of Amersfort in Holland, and as a good architect Gilis Mostaert,
brother of the above-named Franz; and Pieter Pourbus, a mere lad, has
given proof that he is destined to become an excellent painter.

Now, that we may learn something of the miniaturists of those
countries: they say that these have been excellent there, Marinus of
Zierickzee, Lucas Horebout of Ghent, Simon Bening of Bruges, and
Gerard; and likewise some women, Susanna, sister of the said Lucas,
who was invited for that work into the service of Henry VIII, King of
England, and lived there in honour all the rest of her life; Clara
Skeysers of Ghent, who at the age of eighty died, so they say, a
virgin; Anna, daughter of Meister Seghers, a physician; Levina,
daughter of the above-named Meister Simon of Bruges, who was married
by the said Henry of England to a nobleman, and held in estimatio