Gruner, the director of the Dresden Gallery.[141] For the next twenty-five years the picture was known as “Mr. Hubert Morett, goldsmith to Henry VIII,” who was considered by all writers to be an Englishman, his sumptuous apparel, quite unlike the sober garments worn by jewellers in those days, being explained away by a reference to the tradition that in the sixteenth century all Englishmen, of whatever class of society, had a passion for finery in dress. Footnote 139: Wornum, p. 301, and Dresden Catalogue, 1884. Footnote 140: See _Milan under the Sforza_, by C. M. Ady, p. 124. Footnote 141: Woltmann, 146. Reproduced by Wornum (photograph), p. 300. As a matter of fact Hubert Morett was not an Englishman at all, nor could he be rightly described as “goldsmith” to Henry VIII. He was a Frenchman, one of several jewellers of Paris, who paid periodical visits to London for the purpose of selling their wares to the King and Court. Thus, in August 1536, in Gostwick’s accounts, is the entry: “Hubbert Morret, jeweller of Paris, for jewels bought by the King £282, 6_s._ 8_d._,”[142] while in January 1532 he received 242 crowns, or £56, 9_s._ 4_d._, for similar goods.[143] Granger’s statement that Morett “did many curious works after Holbein’s designs” has no foundation in fact. Hollar’s engraving[144] simply calls the subject “Mr. Morett,” though Parthey, in a second edition of his book, cites a second state of the engraving, sold in 1844, with the added words, “Jeweller to Henry VIII”; no one, however, has so far succeeded in discovering a proof of this state, and, in all probability, these words were merely written on this particular proof by someone who had noted the reference to Morett in the _Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VIII_, published by Nicolas in 1827. This, no doubt, was the source of the legend, adopted at Dresden, that the picture represented a court jeweller. Footnote 142: _C.L.P._, vol. xi. 381. Footnote 143: _C.L.P._, vol. v., Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VIII, under January 1532. Footnote 144: Parthey, No. 1470. [Sidenote: PORTRAIT OF MORETTE]