Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists (1826)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Dallaway, James, 1763-1834, Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877 · London : Bickers and Son · leaf 352
274 PAINTERS m THE REIGN OF CHARLES I. Sir Balthazar Gerbier D'Ouvilly of Antwerp,^ was bom about 1581, came young into England, and was a retainer … of the Duke of Buckingham as early as 1613. In Finette s Master of the Ceremonies, it is said, Alonzo Contarini, Embassador from Venice, came to Mr. Gerbier, a gentle- man serving the Duke of Buckingham.'' Sanderson^ calls him a common penman, ^' who pensiled the dialogue" (probably the decalogue)…
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