40. _Portrait of Dryden._--Can any of your correspondents or readers
inform me where any _undoubted_ original portrait of John Dryden is to
be found? Malone, Dryden's biographer, enumerates seven or eight
portraits, and he states where they were in 1800. I am aware that two
are in the Bodleian Gallery at Oxford, the one stated by Malone "painter
unknown;" and the other alleged to be by Kneller; but I do not consider
the latter to be an original. I wish more particularly to know who has a
_half-length_ original portrait. Dryden was painted by Kneller,
Closterman, and Riley.