Chapter 1

LIST OF WORKS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

HENRY PURCELL _(From the portrait by Kneller, in the possession of Henry Littleton, Esq.)_

PURCELL _(From a portrait by Clostermann, in the National Portrait Gallery.)_

PURCELL SEATED AT THE HARPSICHORD _(From a portrait by Clostermann, in the National Portrait Gallery.)_

PURCELL _(From an engraving after a portrait by Clostermann in the possession of the Royal Society of Musicians.)_

PART OF THE AUTOGRAPH SCORE OF PURCELL'S ANTHEM "BEHOLD, NOW PRAISE THE LORD" _(In the British Museum.)_