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Above the wainscot, within the niches for the

portraits of some of the most illustrious ancestors of William Van de

Werve, as well as his own, in which he was represented as captain of a

German company in the service of Charles V

The portraits did not occupy all the panels fore nus from the pencil of the

most celebrated masters of Netherlands The eye rested on the creations of

the i Quintin Massys, the

intellectual Roger Van der Weydens, the spiritual Jerome Bosch, the

laborious Lucas de Leyde, and others whose names were favorably mentioned

in the world of art

In a corner of the room, beside the fireplace, stood a piano richly

enamelled in woods of different colors, and upon it lay two lutes and a

violin--a proof that the char art of music was cultivated by the

fa were suspended six gilded chandeliers; on thethe walls, where the pillars formed

projections, numerous sconces were fastened; and when Mr Van de Werve

received his friends in the evening, the reflection of the nuold and silver ornaave a princely air to the