LIFE OF HOLBEIN. 5 tance to the lord-chancellor, Sir Thomas More, having brought with him Erasmus's picture^ and letters recommendatory from him to that great man. Sir Thomas received him with all the joy imaginable, and kept him in his house between two and three years; during which time he drew Sir Thomas's picture, and those of many of his friends and relations. One day Holbein happening to mention the nobleman who had some years ago invited him to England, Sir Thomas was very solicitous to know who he was. Holbein replied, that he had indeed forgot his title, but remembered his face so well, that he thought he could draw his likeness ; and this he did so very strongly, that the nobleman, it is said, was immediately known by it. This nobleman, some think, was the Earl of Arundel, others the Earl of Surrey. The Chancellor, having now sufficiently enriched his apartments with Holbein's productions, adopted the following method to introduce him to Henry VIII. He invited the king to an en-