The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 241
stinguished his ministry. He hasbeen sometimes accused of a design to enlarge theauthority of the king at the expence of the public free-dom. But the extreme difficulty of the times in whichhe lived may furnish an excuse for some unusual, butnecessary measures. It may also be remarked in… … P. PONTIUS. There are few engravers whose works are more ge-nerally known and esteemed than those of Paul Pon-tius ; yet historians have given but few details of hislife. He was born at Antwerp, about the year 1596, andbecame the disciple of Lucas Vosterman. Pontiuswas more desirous of improving…
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