At the sack of Rome in 1527 he was plundered of all he possessed by the Imperial soldiers, and was forced to paint a picture of their general, the Constable Bourbon, who had been killed in the assault of the city. He died at Rome, not without suspicion of having been poisoned, and was buried in the Pantheon, near the tomb of Raphael. There is a drawing by Peruzzi of this subject in possession of the National Gallery, No. 167. Girolamo da Treviso (623) made a copy of it, which is perhaps this work. The figures of the three magi are interesting as having been portraits of Titian, Raphael, and Michael Angelo. 219. THE DEAD CHRIST. _Unknown_ (Lombard School, 16th century). Perhaps to be ascribed to Bazzi (see under 1144). 221. HIS OWN PORTRAIT. =Rembrandt= (Dutch: 1606-1669). _See_ 45. Compare No. 672. That was painted when he was about thirty; this, some thirty years later. We see here the same features, though worn by age; the same self-reliant expression, though broken down by care. "In manner," says Sir Walter Armstrong, "it is amazingly free, irresponsible, and what in any one but a stupendous master we should call careless. It looks as though he had taken up the first dirty palette on which he could lay his hands, and set himself to the making of a picture with no further thought. To those who put signs of mastery above all other qualities, it is one of the most attractive pictures in the whole Gallery" (_Portfolio_, September 1891). 222. A MAN'S PORTRAIT (dated 1433). _Jan van Eyck_ (Early Flemish: about 1390-1440). _See_ 186. _See also_ (p. xxi) One of Van Eyck's obviously truthful portraits, so highly finished that the single hairs on the shaven chin are given. On the upper part of the frame is the inscription, "Als ich kan"--as I can, the first words of an old Flemish proverb, "As I can, but not as I will,"--an inscription beautifully illustrative of a great man's modesty; accurately true also as a piece of criticism. No pictures are more finished than Van Eyck's, yet they are only "as he can," not as he would. "Let all the ingenuity and all the art of the human race he brought to bear upon the attainment of the utmost possible finish, and they could not do what is done in the foot of a fly, or the film of a bubble. God alone can finish; and the more intelligent the human mind becomes, the more the infiniteness of interval is felt between human and divine work in this respect" (_Modern Painters_, vol. iii. pt iv. ch. ix. § 5). 223. DUTCH SHIPPING. _Bakhuizen_ (Dutch: 1631-1708). _See_ 204. 224. THE TRIBUTE MONEY. _School of Titian. See under_ 4.