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-188 Painting Life of S. Bruno, the founder of the order, and the Mar- tyrdoms and Miracles of the Carthusians. By a contract of August 26th, 1626, between the prior and the painter, it was agreed that the latter should deliver fifty-five pictures in the space of four years, all of them to be painted entirely by himself, and the price to be fixed by competent judges. This singular contract was punctually executed. Patricio Cajesi (died 1612) was invited to Madrid by Philip II., who employed him in the palaces of that city. He was also commissioned to decorate the Queen's Gallery in the Prado. The paintings which he executed there perished in the great fire in that palace. His son and pupil, Eugenio Caxes (1577 — 1642), a native of Madrid, was also a painter. He assisted his father in the works which he executed for Philip III., who appointed him his painter, on the death of old Patricio in 1612. Eugenio painted many works in the churches and convents of Madrid, but many of them have perished by fire, as have also the frescoes which he executed in conjunction with Vincenzio Carducci in the Prado. In the Gallery at Madrid there is the Landing of the English at Cadiz under Lord Wimbledon in 1625, by this artist. Fray Juan Rizi (1595 — 1675) and his brother Francisco Rizi (1608 — 1685), sons of Antonio Ricci of Bologna, were both born at Madrid. The former studied under Magno, took the cowl and painted chiefly for religious houses, and the latter received instruction from Vincenzio Carducci, was appointed painter to the cathedral of Toledo and to Philip IV., and subsequently to Charles II. Many of Francisco Rizi's works are in the churches and convents of Madrid, but the Gallery can boast of only one work, a Portrait of an unknown knight.