of the wonderful series of works by Holbein got together by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel. In the _Dictionary of National Biography_ the date of his birth is given as 1470, while the Oxford catalogue suggests the date 1469, but neither can be correct, or otherwise the date of the Vienna picture would be 1557 or 1558, fourteen years or so after Holbein’s death. If the age of the sitter, eighty-eight, as given on the panel, is correct, and it is accepted that the portrait was painted about 1542, Chamber must have been born about 1454. The Merton College copy was exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1901-2 (No. 155), as a work of the school of Holbein. In 1894 the Royal College of Physicians became possessed of a miniature portrait of Chamber, painted on the back of the ten of clubs, and said to be by Isaac Oliver. This is a careful copy of the Vienna picture, and has a long Latin inscription, giving Chamber’s titles, and the date of his death, round the frame. The original, when in the Arundel Collection, was engraved by Hollar (Parthey, 1372), with the inscription “D. Chambers Anno Ætatis Svæ 88. Holbein pinxit.” In the Arundel inventory it is described as “Doctore John Chambers.” It is possibly one of the pictures which remained on the Continent after the death of the Countess of Arundel in 1654. Footnote 449: Woltmann, 255. Reproduced in Vienna Catalogue, p. 344; Knackfuss, fig. 147; Ganz, _Holbein_, p. 131. [Illustration: VOL. II., PLATE 30 DR. JOHN CHAMBER IMPERIAL GALLERY, VIENNA ] [Sidenote: PORTRAIT OF DR. JOHN CHAMBER]