Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts (1826)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Dallaway, James, 1763-1834 · London : Printed at the Shakspeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major · leaf 137
unt, as he was a remarkableperson and is little known. * [It is a painting, not a model of a mausoleum, still remain-ing in the Wardens lodgings, at New-College. It representsa kind of Roman temple, with many half figures and fulsomeinscriptions, bordering on the blasphemous a vile piece ofart, and… … Sir Balthazar Gerbier DOuvilly of Antwerp,*was born about 1591, came young into England,and was a retainer of the Duke of Buckinghamas early as 1613. In Finettes master of the cere-monies it is said, Alonzo Contarini Embassadorfrom Venice came to Mr. Gerbier, a gentleman * [Many readers may be of…
