Anecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists by Horace Walpole. With additions by James Dallaway, and Vertue's catalogue of engravers who have been born or have resided in England. (1888)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 · London, S. Sonnenschein and Lowrey · leaf 352
274 PAINTERS IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES I. Sir Balthazar Gerbier D’Ouvilly of Antwerp,’ was born 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, Kmbassador from Venice, came to Mr. Gerbier, a gentle- man serving the Duke of Buckingham.” Sanderson? calls him a commun penman, “who pensiled the dialogue” (probably the decalogue)…
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